International Organisations

Egypt has become embroiled in a dispute with African diplomats after they accused an Egyptian official of referring to "dogs and slaves" in remarks about sub-Saharan Africa at a...

An estimated 226,950 South Sudanese refugees have fled to Sudan since December 2013, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a report citing...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to invest more than €700 million in Egypt, the Egyptian presidency revealed in a statement yesterday. The announcement was made...

Israeli society is constantly swerving to the Right and, by doing so, the country's entire political paradigm is redefined regularly. Israel is now 'ruled by the most extreme rightwing...

Switzerland, on Monday, handed over to Tunisia a cheque with a value of 500 thousand Tunisian dinars as part of the recovery of Tunisian stolen assets. Ambassador of Switzerland...

The spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), has expressed the commissioner's fear that around 700 migrants may have died in the Mediterranean Sea since last Wednesday....

The Palestinian Authority accused the international community and UN bodies on Sunday of ignoring daily Israeli violations of human rights. Such breaches of international law are regarded as "routine"...

Palestinian Prisoners' Centre for Studies (PPCS) yesterday warned about the implications of the International Committee for the Red Cross' decision to cancel 50 per cent of the monthly visits to Palestinian...

Syrian opposition groups will resume their participation in peace talks in Geneva, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported yesterday. The official spokesman for the Supreme Syrian Commission of the negotiations Riad Nassan Agha told the...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has attacked the organisation campaigning for Britain to leave the European Union, saying its use of Turkey in its material was "frankly appalling". Cameron,...

Elmar Brok, chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, has said Turkey has a higher quality of democracy than some countries which already enjoy visa-free travel to EU...

  Islamophobic and anti-refugee sentiment are on the increase in Europe after the terrorist attacks that took place in France and Denmark, the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) revealed...

There will be no new round of Syria peace talks in Geneva within at least "two/three weeks", the UN's Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said yesterday. After briefing the UN...

The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov has called on the international community to shoulder its responsibility towards Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,...

Syrian civilians are in danger of starvation if the regime and opposition factions do not allow the entry of more humanitarian aid to besieged areas, United Nations special envoy...

The Vice-President and member of the Management Committee of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Román Escolano has expressed the European Union's readiness to further support and cooperate with Tunisia....

The Dutch government has defended the right to boycott Israel, in a rejection of Israeli efforts to outlaw such political activity. In response to questions from Green Left MP...

Egyptian authorities have "unjustly" jailed dozens of protesters since May, Human Rights Watch said in a statement yesterday. "Egyptian courts have sentenced more than 150 people to prison terms...

Egypt uses arms bought from members of the European Union to carry out human rights abuses, Amnesty International said yesterday. "Almost half of European Union (EU) member states have...

Tunisian Minister of Development, Investment and International Cooperation, Yassine Brahim, yesterday called for greater financial and material support from the European Union in order to facilitate the country's democratic...

Arab refugees are welcome in the occupied Palestinian territories, Arabs48.com reported Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas announcing yesterday. Palestinian NGOs are ready to send aid and humanitarian delegations...

One of the biggest Zionist propaganda claims is that the Palestinian people hate life and use their children as human shields. Having experienced Palestine first hand from the West...

The Financial and Economic Cooperation Committee in the Gulf Cooperation Council will hold an extraordinary meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, today to discuss the introduction of taxes. The official...

More than 40,000 Yemeni civilians, mostly women and children, have been wounded or killed in the ongoing war in the country, the country's prime minister revealed yesterday. During a...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday reiterated his rejection of a French initiative to hold an international peace conference on the Middle East, proposing instead to meet with Palestinian...

With much of the attention on Yemen focused on the Kuwait peace talks, there seems to be an illusion that much of the fate of Yemen's future is currently...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated that she is still optimistic regarding the success of the EU-Turkish deal on refugees, German daily Allgemeine Zeitung reported yesterday. According to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed...

The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed yesterday called on the Yemeni parties to take advantage of the "historic opportunity" they find themselves in and resume...

As he prepares to leave office, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon granted Anadolu Agency a sit-down interview to discuss topics ranging from Syrian refugees to Cyprus reunification talks. He...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in its weekly report that the Israeli army wounded at least 78 Palestinians, including 32 children, in clashes...

A group of Islamic countries at the UN have condemned Israel's organising of a photo exhibition inside the international organisation's headquarters which describes Jerusalem as a capital for the...

  The United Nations Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed held on Thursday two separate meetings with delegations from the Yemeni government and the Houthi rebels in the...