Belgian Foreign Minister, Didier Reynders, has apologised before the Belgian Parliament after his country voted in favour of Saudi Arabia's election to the UN Women's Rights Commission. Local media...

UNESCO today voted in favour of a resolution which describes Israel as an "occupying power" and denies its sovereignty over occupied Jerusalem. Twenty-two countries voted in favour of the...

United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says Sudan is currently hosting about a quarter of the South Sudanese refugees in the region, according to the UN Office for the Coordination...

Libya's military strongman, Khalifa Haftar, flew from Benghazi's Benina Airport yesterday to Abu Dhabi for a rumoured meeting with Presidency Council head Fayez Al-Sarraj. According to a statement released by...

Sudanese rebels from Darfur who have been pushed out of Sudan are fighting as mercenaries in Libya, according to the Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein said yesterday that heavy-handed security measures by Egypt foster radicalisation rather than curb it, Reuters reported. Read: Egypt prisons 300% over...

Britain can no longer rely on US leadership on Middle East policy and must work more closely with Europe to ensure the Iran nuclear deal stays in place, among...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights voiced deep concern on Monday at mass arrests and sackings of public employees in Turkey and the renewed state of emergency there,...

Half a century has elapsed since Israel established its brutal occupation of Palestine, and almost seven decades have passed since the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, which constitutes the beginning of...

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation will arrive in Cairo on Sunday to review Egypt's progress on economic reforms before it disburses the second instalment of a $12-billion loan...

Fighting between opposition and rebel groups in the biggest insurgent stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus entered into its second day today, while government forces pressed an offensive against...

The UN called on Iran yesterday to "immediately" cancel death sentences against minors and children, and called on Tehran to abide by its obligations under international human rights law,...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticised on Thursday the EU's decision to put Turkey on a political monitoring watch list, Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency reported. "We will not allow...

Few have mastered the art of division and diversion better than Israeli governments, and even fewer have used it to greater effect. The manufactured outrage over the UN's alleged...

The United Nations issued a blunt ultimatum today – if donors fail to pour more money into Africa and Yemen then aid workers might have to choose which of...

1.There must be money that can be invested in politics, especially after the decline of the country's internal resources, the economic recession, increased unemployment, high prices and the growing...

Several members of the European parliament organised a sit-in in solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners yesterday. Chair of Delegation for relations with Palestine Neoklis Sylikiotis organised the event...

Germany today rejected demands to halt Turkey's bid to join the European Union, even as some EU states said Ankara's membership dream was dead after Turks voted to grant...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday that Turkey has every right to defend itself and prosecute those involved in last year's failed coup attempt. Stoltenberg told EU defence...

President of the Libyan House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, revealed the great support provided by the UAE to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, a video circulating on social media has...

Hungary has completed a second fence along its border with Serbia, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said today, adding that the European Union should be less critical of Turkey when...

She escaped the bombs of Syria, and almost drowned when her dinghy capsized off Greece, but Yusra Mardini then competed at the Olympics and has now been appointed a...

The Yemeni government yesterday asked the UN to reroute aid headed for Taiz and send it through Aden instead of Hudaydah to ensure its safety. Read: UN receives only 7%...

Travellers who have residence permits in the Gulf will be able to obtain a visa upon arrival in Egypt from Monday, the Minister of Tourism revealed. The decision to...

An Israeli report has accused the governments of a number of European countries of funding NGOs that incite violence and legitimise attacks against Israeli civilians. The report, published by...

Hamas called on UNRWA to stop working as a political security apparatus after the organisation reprimanded staff for their political views. "UNRWA employees express their opinions away from their...

The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has been accused of abusing her power by quashing a UN report that was critical of Israel. The criticism was made...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned yesterday that half a million Yemeni children suffering from acute malnutrition are at risk of dying...

Turkey will close the door on joining the European Union if it adopts constitutional changes backed at a referendum last week, a leading member of the EU parliament responsible...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has accepted the criminal lawsuit filed by the coalition against Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad for war crimes and crimes against humanity, the head...

A commander in Iraq's Federal Police was filmed telling wounded soldiers that he and his men had avenged their extensive losses by "wiping out" entire neighbourhoods of Mosul. The...

The number of tourists visiting Egypt from the Gulf States has increased by 18 per cent in the first quarter of this year, according to the Egyptian consulate in...