International Organisations

The UN and its partners launched the "largest-ever" humanitarian aid appeal for a single country on Tuesday, Anadolu has reported. The appeal seeks to raise $4.4 billion to avert...

Sudan's Sovereignty Council has welcomed the UN initiative to facilitate dialogue among all of the Sudanese parties to resolve the country's political crisis, Anadolu has reported. The announcement was...

Senior Islamic Jihad leader, Khaled Al Batsh, condemned, on Monday, the Arab League's silence about Israeli siege of Gaza Strip as "absolutely unjustified." During a memorial ceremony for late...

Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, on Monday, called for dialogue to resolve world crises and achieve peace, Anadolu News Agency reports. Sisi made the call as he opened a...

Israel will not constrain itself with any nuclear agreement between world powers and Iran, Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, said Monday, Anadolu News Agency reports. "Israel is not part...

The European Union yesterday informed Iraq that it had been removed from the list of countries at high risk of money laundering and terror financing countries. The Iraqi Foreign...

Human rights organisations disagree with the decision to deem the Damascus area or any area in Syria safe for refugees to return to.

Although 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues that will linger for a while, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the news in 2022,...

The UN mission in Sudan today launched a UN-facilitated intra-Sudanese political process in an effort to salve the country's transition to democracy, Anadolu Agency reports. Volker Perthes, the head...

Norway's Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), pledged to advance the UN Security Council discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a ministerial level this month, to restore its focus...

While elections in South Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Hungary, Angola, Kenya, Italy and France will dominate the global political scene in 2022, the developments associated...

Diplomats and ambassadors from 16 European countries were given a dressing-down by Israeli officials recently when they raised objections to Israel's illegal settlement policy and ongoing occupation of the...

The Palestinian people rightly saluted Hisham Abu Hawash as a brave man who was prepared to die in pursuit of his freedom. On 4 January, the occupation state of...

A group of unknown perpetrators attacked United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Tuesday night, according to a UN official. The 'blue helmets' had their vehicles vandalised and official...

The UAE intensified its mistreatment of human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor following the publication of his prison letter by regional media in July 2021, revealing details of the unfair trial and...

Representatives of the United Nations and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Thursday called for joint efforts to fight corruption for sustainable development in the world, Anadolu News Agency...

The Ethiopian government has been detaining and forcibly disappearing thousands of Tigrayans who were repatriated back to the country from Saudi Arabia, according to a report by Human Rights...

The new year brought with it the welcome news that three of Egypt's most prominent political prisoners have now been, or are set to be, released from prison. Former...

The UAE along with four other countries – Albania, Brazil, Gabon and Ghana – have assumed responsibilities as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. Although the two-year term...

A return to the Iran nuclear deal is better than not having a deal, the Jerusalem Post reported Chief of Israeli Military Intelligence, Aharon Haliva, saying. The paper quoted Israeli news...

Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Nayef Al-Hajraf, yesterday met with Commander of the US Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT), Lieutenant-General Charles Cooper, to discuss ways of strengthening...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) yesterday announced the suspension of vital relief programmes in Yemen due to a lack of funding. "Lack of...

Israeli occupation forces killed 313 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, including 71 minors, Israeli rights group, B'Tselem, said in a report issued on Tuesday. The...

Israeli occupation demolished 295 Palestinian residential structures in occupied territories in 2021, leaving 895 Palestinians, 463 of them minors, homeless, Israeli rights group, B'Tselem, reported on Tuesday. According to...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Tuesday called for the release of a Palestinian prisoner, who has been on a hunger strike for 141 days in protest against...

The Israeli embassy in Australia gave $20,000 to the Sydney Festival organisers to allow Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin to perform

After the end of her daily eight hours of work, Duha Mouadi makes her way through the streets of Ramallah as quick as possible to her home to start...

A number of Arab states and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) yesterday condemned the seizure of a UAE-flagged cargo ship heading to the Saudi port of Jizan by...

While Yemen witnessed military escalation, adding extra challenges to humanitarian crises in 2021, analysts predict that the war-torn country may face a political challenge in 2022, reports Anadolu Agency....

The Palestinians in Europe Conference have expressed deep concern over the deteriorating health condition of Palestinian prisoner, Hisham Abu Hawash, after 140 days on hunger strike, a statement said....

Unidentified gunmen yesterday kidnapped a journalist from his office in Yemen's southwestern city of Taiz, which falls under the authority of the internationally recognised Yemeni government. Yemen Shabab reported...

Iran's space launch on Thursday failed to put its three payloads into orbit after the rocket was unable to reach the required speed, a defence ministry spokesman said in...