Unsurprisingly, Israel’s decision to halt its annexation plans temporarily has been met with a resounding silence from the international community, rather than utilising the interlude to come up with...

Journalist Adel Sabry has been released from jail after more than two years in pre-trial detention. Sabry, who is editor-in-chief of Masr Al-Arabia and a journalist and member of the Egyptian...

Lebanon’s Moody’s rating has been cut to the lowest possible grade, a C, the same classification as Venezuela, the agency said in a statement yesterday. The downgrading reflects an...

Another detainee has died in detention after suffering symptoms of the coronavirus. Khaled Taha, 58, died at the Haram Police station as a result of a stroke and pneumonia....

More than 60 people were killed and dozens injured in an attack launched by gunmen in a village in Sudan’s West Darfur province on Saturday. The government responded by...

Human Rights Watch yesterday urged Yemen’s Houthis to allow the United Nations to access an abandoned oil tanker known as the Safer in the Red Sea which is at...

A UN grain store that symbolised aid agencies’ struggle to navigate the front lines of Yemen’s war has finally been emptied and distributed to a starving population almost two...

The United Nations’ Libya mission on Monday said an international audit of the country’s two parallel central bank branches was ready to begin, in what is called a “critical...

The Houthis in Yemen have launched a strongly-worded attack on the UN and its special envoy to the country, Martin Griffiths. They accuse the organisation of being biased and...

Jordan and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have signed a $700 million agreement to support one million vulnerable Jordanians and refugees until 2022. The Ministry of Planning and...

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed its concern about the declining condition and death threats facing thousands of illegal migrants in Libya. On...

COVID-19 has been the severest blow dealt to the Kuwaiti economy since the 1990 Iraqi invasion, the World Bank (WB) warned yesterday. WB’s Resident Representative for Kuwait, Ghassan Alkhoja,...

The African Union (AU) has called on Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt to “work expeditiously” for a binding agreement on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...

The Turkish Coast Guard rescued more than 900 asylum seekers in the recent month who were pushed back by the Greek Coast Guard into Turkish territorial waters in the...

Washington has called for the immediate release of civilian prisoners from Assad’s jails and has requested for the UN to “double its efforts” to secure their release, Political Coordinator...

Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Al-Sarraj discussed with US Ambassador to Turkey David Satterfield on Friday the lifting of the blockade on Libya’s oil fields. This came during a meeting...

The Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) yesterday denied reports claiming it had violated the OPEC+ production cut agreement in July. Earlier this week, financial data site Refinitiv Eikon, Iraq’s...

The Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the United Nations, Ambassador Sheikha Alya Bint Ahmed Bin Saif Al-Thani, has reiterated her country’s commitment to resolving the crisis...

A new economic forecast of Arab economies by the United Nations has painted a gloomy picture of the region. The spread of the coronavirus pandemic is expected to exact...

The UN is deeply concerned by the Egyptian Parliament’s decision to authorise the deployment of troops to Libya, the spokesperson of Secretary-General, António Guterres. Stéphane Dujarric told reporters on Tuesday that...

The UN is changing its narrative about the coronavirus cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. A few months ago, this cooperation was politicised by the UN within the...

Kuwait has called on the UN Security Council to act immediately to stop Israeli crimes and violence against Palestinians before it is too late, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported yesterday. The...

Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas described allegations made by US Ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, as “lies, fabrications and political bullying”. In comments to the UN Security Council, Craft...

The General Union of Arab Archaeologists has condemned Israel’s theft of a Byzantine-era baptismal font in Bethlehem, Quds Net reported on Wednesday. The union described the theft as a...

Turkey has rejected Greek plans of expanding its continental shelf through islets in the Aegean Sea and confining Turkey to the Anatolian peninsula in the Eastern Mediterranean region, Anadolu...

The global Black Lives Matter movement has become a major strategic threat to Israel. At least, that’s how the pro-Israel lobby increasingly views it. One obscure lobby group recently...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said it will distribute a one-time emergency financial assistance package to Palestinian refugees from Gaza living in Jordan....

Some 80 Tunisian migrants have arrived on Italy’s southern island of Lampedusa, Italian security sources reported yesterday. The sources told the local AKI newspaper that the first eight immigrants...

Greece said on Tuesday there should be no alternative but European Union sanctions against Turkey if Ankara does not back down on disputed attempts to explore for natural resources...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has adjourned without issuing its ruling on whether Israeli officials will be tried for war crimes against the Palestinian people since 2014, when Gaza...

The African Union is chairing a virtual meeting between leaders from Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan in the latest attempt to reach an agreement over the Renaissance Dam. Leaders of...

The English Premier League should consider Saudi Arabia’s human rights record while it is assessing the kingdom’s bid to acquire Newcastle United FC, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a...