It was midday and the temperature was over 32oC as Rabah Abu-Shanab, 58, lay under the rubble of what once was his house in Al-Shuja’ia, the neighbourhood which was...

The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, arrived in the capital Sanaa on Sunday to negotiate a new ceasefire, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency has reported. Speaking...

Italy’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, has said that his country is going to provide more support to Tunisia, which announced a state of emergency...

More than 100 MEPs have announced their support for granting the London-based Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) consultative status at the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported...

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Maldenov, condemned on Friday the Israeli shooting and killing of a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem. Mohamed Kasbeh was...

Amnesty International has said that it is “concerned” about the latest remarks by Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi regarding the death sentences given to Muslim Brotherhood leaders and members, Jordanian...

The UN’s Human Rights Council on Friday stressed the urgency of ending the occupation of Palestinian territory and denounced Israel’s refusal to cooperate with an independent commission on last...

The Syrian regime has used 10,423 barrel bombs in 19,205 air raids between the start of this year and the end of June, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

Arthur is a boy living in the West. Arthur is healthy and his family looks after him very well. Even if he gets ill, there is a hospital near...

UNRWA may be forced to close 700 schools for Palestinian refugees because of a funding crisis faced by the organisation, a senior official told France’s Le Monde newspaper. Director...

Nothing that Israel does to stop the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign seems to be working, not even in Washington, where support for Israel is often taken...

The EU ambassador in Tel Aviv, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, has said that he rules out the imposition of any European academic boycott of Israel. He made his comments during an...

Palestinian factions have accused the UN of being a partner with Israeli in the attack on Freedom Flotilla III, which aimed to break the nine-year Israeli siege on Gaza,...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said the number of internally displaced persons in Libya has doubled since last September to more than 434,000. UNHCR spokesperson...

US President Barack Obama on Monday signed legislation targeting anti-Israel boycotts worldwide. The Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which was passed through the Senate last Wednesday, includes roughly 150 trade...

UNRWA announced Monday a significant reduction in its international staff, and warned of further “difficult decisions” should serious funding problems not be remedied. In a statement from Jerusalem, UNRWA...

The UN welcomed the “peaceful completion” of the confrontation between the Israeli army and activists on the Freedom Flotilla, the Anadolu Agency reported the deputy spokesman for UN secretary-general...

Britain’s foreign secretary has said that failure to reach an agreement with Iran over its nuclear programme is better than a “bad deal”, Anadolu has reported. “We still have...

The deadline to reach a final deal in the nuclear talks between Iran and the world powers group P5+1 maybe extended to July 9, Iranian deputy foreign minister has...

The Orange affair The Orange affair here is not the ominous orange of the victims of Guantanamo or the Islamic state – it about the French telecommunication company Orange...

Over the last two weeks, two Israeli war crimes suspects entered the UK. One, former Israeli minister Tzipi Livni, received diplomatic immunity in dubious circumstances. A second, former Israeli...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is “deeply concerned” about the health of Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan, who is being held by Israel without charge or trial. His “administrative detention”...

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Thursday that it will apply the Early Voluntary Retirement initiative, which allows employees who meet the requirements...

The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon called on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to translate his words into action regarding his commitment to a two-state solution....

The White House said on Thursday that the Palestinians’ efforts to prosecute Israel for war crimes at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague are “counterproductive”, and stressed...

The European Union yesterday renewed a ban on all seven Libyan airlines from operating in the airspace of the 28-nation bloc citing threats to flight operations, the Anadolu Agency...

A coalition of human rights and humanitarian organizations has called on the UN Security Council to take immediate action to prevent indiscriminate assaults targeting Syrian civilians. “We wish to...

Israel has not been “sufficiently proactive” in detecting and investigating incidents of foreign bribery, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a report issued Wednesday....

When the Palestinian Authority joined the International Criminal Court (ICC) in April, commentators across the world warned that it was a provocative move that risked ratcheting up tensions with...

The UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed warned yesterday that the war-torn country is “one step away from famine” as 31 million people are in need of...

Libya’s internationally recognised government warned European countries that it will target any ships that enter its territorial waters without permission. The warning came after European foreign ministers agreed on...

Following its insensitive and macabre efforts to downplay the repercussions and atrocities of Operation Protective Edge, Israel has now attempted to ridicule the UN Human Rights Council report on...