The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on Monday condemned the recent murder and injury of a number of Palestinians by Israeli security forces. Several cities...

UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said 22 UN member states pledged $100 million to its budget while others are awaiting parliamentary approvals before donating, the...

EU foreign ministers urged Russia on Monday to stop its attacks in Syria and said the escalation of military violence undermines a solution to the conflict. The European Council...

Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation Sahar Nasr signed a $50 million loan agreement with the African Development Bank, provided through the “Africa Growing Together Fund”, to complete financing Sharm...

YouTube yesterday closed the main Hamas channel in the occupied West Bank after pressure by the Israeli authorities, Palestinian Safa news agency reported. In a statement, Hamas said the...

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that their crews in the West Bank were exposed to 53 attacks since 3 October, resulting in casualties and damaging their material. In...

An advanced type of Russian-made cluster ammunition was used in an airstrike in northern Syria, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Sunday. The New York-based watchdog suggested that it...

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and his investment company have doubled their shares in Twitter, to become the microblogging site’s second largest shareholder. A joint statement released yesterday...

Amnesty International yesterday called on Israel to halt its house demolitions policy as a collective punishment measure against Palestinians in the occupied territories. In a letter to Israeli Prime...

A Palestinian official said Israel’s bid to gain membership as an observer state in the African Union (AU) will “fail” because of the AU’s support for Palestine. “We appreciate...

NATO yesterday has called on Russia to immediately stop its attacks on the Syrian opposition and civilians and “to focus its efforts on fighting the Islamic State terrorist group”....

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to urgently send international protection staff to the Palestinian territories before his government loses...

On Wednesday, 30 September, the Palestinian flag was raised for the first time at the United Nations headquarters in New York after the General Assembly voted overwhelming in favour of...

The United Nations on Friday suspended its planned humanitarian operations in Syria because of an increase of military activities in concerned areas of the war-torn country. UN Special Envoy...

The Moroccan government decided to boycott Swedish companies yesterday following the government in Stockholm’s “determination” to support what is known as the “Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic”, established unilaterally by...

Britain has been accused of playing a key role in Saudi Arabia’s election to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) through a secret vote-trading deal carried out between London...

Fabricated claims of UN bias against Israel continue to fuel Israeli media reports covering this year’s UN General Assembly. As Mahmoud Abbas played the usual game of fluctuating threats...

The Malaysian prime minister today condemned Israel for what he called its “systematic dehumanisation” of Palestinians, saying the situation risked becoming a “catastrophe”. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly,...

The Israeli government should expand settlement construction and accelerate its pace in response to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech at the UN General Assembly, Hebrew TV reported the Yesha...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday that Palestine is under occupation and that the PA is no longer bound by the Oslo accords signed with Israel,...

Sixty per cent of Egyptian illegal immigrants to Italy are children and minors, the EU Ambassador to Egypt James Moran revealed yesterday. Moran said that 500,000 migrants have arrived...

The Palestinian flag is to be raised for the first time at the UN headquarters in New York later today in what is being described as a the “most...

Saudi Arabia has called for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem to be blacklisted by the United Nations, and condemned the Israeli government for aiding and...

A UN report issued by the World Bank revealed on Monday that the decline in aid from donor countries, last year’s war in the Gaza Strip and the freeze...

It is election season in Canada. On 19 October Canadians will cast their votes to select representatives for the federal Parliament in Ottawa. According to recent polling it’s going...

Jordan has rejected a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the humanitarian situation in Yemen which said that the coalition forces committed human rights violations and...

One of the leading advocates for Britain’s withdrawal from the EU on Friday welcomed a new campaign to exit the 28-country bloc. Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing UK...

At the entrance to the “Jungle” refugee camp in Calais on Monday morning, around 400 people had “over-spilled” the borders of their designated plot of “no man’s land” and...

A week ago, David Cameron capitulated to humanitarian rather than political instinct. Twenty thousand places in Britain are to be offered to Syrian refugees over the next five years....

The European Commission criticized 19 EU member states, including France and Germany, for not respecting asylum rights. Al Jazeera correspondent said that there is a tendency at an emergency...

The World Bank announced yesterday that it has transferred $25 million to the Palestinian Authority (PA) from the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan Trust Fund (PRDP-MDTF), a multi-donor budget...

The European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Frederica Mogherini, has announced Europe’s readiness to provide a €100 million package to support the new Libyan government....