International Organisations

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel in Brussels

In their first meeting, the European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke "at length" about terrorism, Russia, the Iran nuclear deal...

The Guardian reported yesterday that European diplomats were making a last-ditch effort to draw Russian support away from would-be Libyan strongman and renegade general Khalifa Haftar, and to instead...

The British government today defended its decision to end a programme to take in unaccompanied child refugees less than a year after its introduction, saying the scheme encouraged human...

The United Nations yesterday appealed for $2.1 billion to provide urgent food and humanitarian aid to save some 12 million Yemenis threatened with famine after two years of war...

The ongoing territorial dispute between the Sahrawi people of the Western Sahara and the Kingdom of Morocco is one of the manifestations of the unfortunate tragedies of the West's...

An Iranian bank has filed a lawsuit for losses sustained during years of sanctions against the country, the official news agency IRNA reported. A senior official at the Bank...

Turkish-backed Syrian opposition fighters resumed a major offensive inside the Daesh-held city of Al-Bab today, a day after they broke through Daesh defences in its remaining stronghold in Aleppo...

Mahmoud Abbas warned on Wednesday that he "may halt security cooperation with Israel" if its settlement policy continues, Arabs48.com has reported. Speaking to the French senate in Paris, the...

While Israel has blatantly violated international law by legalising settlements on privately-owned Palestinian territory, President Mahmoud Abbas is hindering, rather than facilitating, any reversal of such action. The simple...

There is emerging consensus in Libya and the international community to support a change to the composition of the UN-backed government's leadership, the top United Nations official in Libya...

The Syrian justice ministry yesterday denied the findings published in an Amnesty International report which accused the Syrian regime of executing up to 13,000 prisoners through mass hangings at...

The European Union must uphold its decision to recognise the "separate and distinct" character of the Western Sahara and not give in to pressure from Morocco, an Algerian diplomat...

Some 11,000 migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean Sea for the safety of Europe since the start of the year until 5 February, figured by the International Organisation...

The UN special envoy for Syria on Tuesday issued a warning regarding the lack of humanitarian access in the conflict-ridden country during the month of January. Out of 21 requests for...

Senior Turkish and British government and UN officials condemned a new Israeli bill which legalises settlements built on privately owned Palestinian land. The "Legalisation Law" passed last night allows...

Egyptians have been busy recently with concerns that their country may be heading for bankruptcy, especially in light of a report by the US Foreign Relations Council about to...

At least 15 people died in airstrikes on the opposition-held Syrian city of Idlib today, in some of the heaviest raids there in months. Residents and rescue workers told...

Israel's Jewish Home party is preparing a new bill to boycott enterprises which boycott settlement businesses, leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported yesterday. According to QudsPress, Haaretz reported the Jewish...

The Syrian government has executed thousands of prisoners in mass hangings and carried out systematic torture at a military jail near Damascus, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Tuesday....

A programme to remove mines, explosives and booby traps left by Islamic State forces in and around the Iraqi city of Mosul could cost $50 million, United Nations officials...

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron said on 24 January, "Boycotting Israel has been condemned by France and there's no reason why we should discuss the matter again." By sheer...

Morocco's government said today it would end economic cooperation with the European Union if the bloc does not honour a farming deal, weeks after an EU court ruled that...

Libya's coastguard intercepted at least 1,131 migrants near the western city of Sabratha over the course of a week, a spokesman said on Saturday. Ayoub Qassem said 431 migrants...

Google's operation in Ireland serves as a base for most of it's customers in Europe and the MENA region

The UN's top official on refugees pushed back against a proposed initiative that has gained recent traction to create "safe zones" in Syria for refugees, saying the country was...

UNICEF called on EU member states gathered in Malta yesterday to protect children migrants and refugees who cross the Mediterranean towards Europe, a statement reported by Quds Press said....

United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk today called on the UN Security Council and UN General Assembly to stop illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Lynk...

Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi reiterated his refusal to agree to the "road map" proposed by the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. "The proposal...

An official at the European Commission in occupied Jerusalem announced that the EU has adopted a new financial support policy regarding the Gaza Strip in 2017, in coordination with...

Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has condemned remarks made by UN Secretary General António Guterres regarding a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. A spokesman for the movement, Faouzi Barhoum, described the secretary...

The head of the UN-backed Libyan government today told top European Union officials the bloc must provide more money and other assistance to secure Tripoli's help in curbing the...