-
Amnesty International has accused Sudanese government forces of killing civilians, including children, in suspected chemical weapons attacks in Darfur. According to the 100-page report, around 30 attacks were carried...
-
Senior UN officials have called for an independent body to document human rights abuses in Libya and efforts by the authority to bring perpetrators to account. Kate Gilmore, speaking...
-
A video showing Syria's ambassador to the United Nations laughing when asked if his government had bombed two of Aleppo's biggest hospitals has sparked outrage. Diplomatic editor for Al...
-
Article
September 29, 2016
|
Alastair Sloan
The photo opportunity and lavish praise for Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in New York this week, alongside leaders of the Coptic Church, highlight an awkward truth prevalent across...
-
Dunkin' Donuts Egypt released a picture of a doughnut covered in chocolate and one covered in sugar frosting with the following caption: "Blackness equals a half beauty. Whiteness equals...
-
A Yemeni commission reporting on human rights abuses in the country's civil war lacks impartiality and is not up to the job, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights...
-
Food aid has reached families in the northern Iraqi town of Shirqat for the first time since its capture by Daesh militants more than two years ago, the World...
-
Iraq's International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout has been put at risk following last week's dismissal of its Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari. With Zebari's dismissal the Baghdad government has lost...
-
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that those using "ever more destructive weapons" in Syria are committing war crimes and that the situation in the Syrian city of...
-
Leading international humanitarian organisations called for the opening of secure corridors in Aleppo yesterday in order to evacuate the many wounded civilians in the city's opposition-held eastern districts that...
-
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) strongly condemned on Tuesday Arab participation in a Zionist conference held in New York about the threat posed by Iran, Arab48.com has...
Published in:
Asia & Americas,
Bahrain,
International Organisations,
Israel,
Lebanon,
Middle East,
News,
Palestine,
Saudi Arabia,
UAE,
US
-
Amnesty International has accused Israeli forces of displaying "an appalling disregard for human life by using reckless and unlawful lethal force against Palestinians", in a new statement timed to...
-
Some 269 hospitals and health centres have been bombed in Syria since the beginning of the conflict in 2011, the UN announced yesterday. UN Special Rapporteur Dainius Puras stressed...
-
Israeli soldiers are being investigated by military police following complaints of two attacks against Palestinian paramedics. According to the report in Haaretz: "In both cases the Palestinians claim that...
-
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that the European Union needs to establish migrant deals with Egypt and Tunisia, along the lines of the agreement it already has...
-
September 26, 2016
|
Dr Ramzy Baroud
Ban Ki-moon's second term as UN secretary-general is ending this December, he was the most ideal man for the job as far as the United States and its allies...
-
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused FIFA, the worldwide football association, of "holding games on stolen land", in a new report on Israeli football clubs based in illegal West...
-
Russian envoy Vitaly Churkin blamed the breakdown of the ceasefire on groups fighting against the Syrian regime, including those supported by the US
-
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has urged Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to release journalist Hesham Gaafar from prison for "humanitarian reasons", Quds Press reported on Sunday. Gaafar...
-
Palestinian and pro-Palestine activists and journalists around the globe started an anti-Facebook Twitter campaign on Sunday morning, in protest against the social media giant's cooperation with Israel against Palestinians....
-
Save the Children said in a statement on Sunday that its humanitarian partners in Aleppo have revealed that approximately half of the victims who are being pulled from the...
-
Decrying recent attacks on civilians in Aleppo, Syria that have taken over 350 civilian lives as an "unacceptable breach of international humanitarian law," the EU has called for an...
-
UAE's Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said that the UAE has unwavering faith in the role of the United Nations and its organs, especially the UN...
-
Hamas, the Palestinian governors of the Gaza Strip, hailed the advice of the advocate-general at the European Court of Justice, Eleanor Sharpston, which stated that Hamas should be removed...
-
The "Quartet" of Middle East peace mediators said on Friday it was strongly opposed to Israel's ongoing settlement activity, warning that it risked ending the chance of a two-state...
-
The UK and UAE are to form a new taskforce to help prevent extremism. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson met his UAE counterpart Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan on...
-
A senior US diplomatic official said that there would be "no tolerance" for sectarian torture and other abuses that may be perpetrated by Iraqi forces and allied Shia militias...
-
The U.N. Security Council has given an international inquiry five more weeks to complete its report on who is to blame for toxic gas attacks in Syria as UN...
-
The UN on Thursday warned that 40 trucks of food languishing at the Turkish-Syrian border, waiting for permission from the Syrian regime, will be expiring next Monday. "Forty trucks are sitting...
-
Kuwait will host an international conference to highlight Israeli violations and abuses against Palestinian children, the country's Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah said yesterday. Speaking at the...
-
A boat carrying 600 people from Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan capsized off the Egyptian coast yesterday killing 43 people. Four hundred people are still missing and 154 people...
-
Israel, which has had fraught relations with the EU in recent years, recalled Europeans' treatment of Jews in the Holocaust and denounced the bloc's "staggering hypocrisy"