International Organisations

Algeria announced yesterday that several North African countries would hold the seventh conference in Algiers to discuss the latest developments in Libya. The Algerian Minister of Maghreb Affairs, African...

Israel has responded on Sunday to an EU move to label goods from illegal settlements by moving to suspend its role in the Palestine-Israel peace process. The Times of...

EU heads of government want Turkey to stem the flow of refugees into Europe in exchange for money and political concessions. "The most important one is our responsibility and...

The hypocrisy and double standards that permeate the jewellery industry when it comes to blood diamonds is laid bare when one examines the ethical credential of Tiffany’s diamonds, one...

France’s Permanent Representative to NATO, Jean-Baptiste Mattei, has refuted reports that he had suggested that Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian Su-24 jet undermined “Operation ISIS”, Anadolu reported on...

The deputy secretary-general of the Arab League has called on the European Union to “put pressure on Israel to abide by international law.” Ahmed Bin Helli made his comments...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the Egyptian authorities to put in place a regular schedule to open the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt to allow for the...

The Egyptian foreign ministry has rejected a call by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to investigate the killing and injury of Sudanese migrants in the Sinai Peninsula near the...

The annual “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People”, as articulated by the UN, was held yesterday, resulting in several condemnations of Israeli policy including settlement expansion. Described...

The Special Rapporteur of the UNHCR, Idriss Jazairy, arrived in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Monday for a visit aimed at evaluating the impact of US sanctions imposed on...

More than 19,000 children have been killed in Syria since March 2011, claims a human rights group. Around 92 per cent of them were killed by regime forces, while...

As the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People approaches, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that Israel’s use of excessive force fuels anger and frustration, Almesryoon.com reported...

A member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars has called on the newly-appointed UN envoy to Libya not to exclude any of the Libyan parties from the political...

Israeli companies have begun to relocate their factories from settlements built on occupied Palestinian land in order to avoid labelling their products as a way of circumventing the EU...

The Algerian Minister for Maghreb and African Affairs, Abdelkader Messahel, has insisted that his country’s position on the Western Sahara conflict has not changed. “Algeria’s position on the Western...

A senior UN official yesterday described the Israeli policy of demolishing the houses of Palestinians who have allegedly committed crimes as “punitive demolitions” and said they are “form of...

In his address to the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee on Decolonisation, UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krähenbühl gave a detailed overview of the restrictions faced by the organisation which,...

The former chairman of the Syrian opposition Transitional National Council (SNC) Burhan Ghalioun has said that the Vienna meeting that concluded on Saturday and led to a consensus on...

The Gulf Cooperation Council petrochemical exports to China rose to about 13.37 million tonnes at a value of nearly $15.15 billion in 2014, a new report by the Gulf...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is unable to finance 60 per cent of people’s needs in Sudan, Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported. UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi told...

A Spanish court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials for their role in the 2010 attack on the Freedom Flotilla...

Vienna has announced that it is to build a steel fence along its border with Slovenia to have better management of the influx of refugees, Alamatonline.com reported on Friday....

Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, has written an article published in the Los Angeles Times criticising the international community for not doing more to protect civilians...

UN envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, has requested "full clarification" of reports that the UAE shipped arms to Libyan factions in violation of a UN arms embargo. His comments...

The decision by the UN envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, to step down and take up a high paying job in the UAE has raised speculations about Abu Dhabi’s...

In the wake of the release of Egyptian journalist Hossam Bahgat from state prison, UN officials have reiterated their “grave concern at the situation of fear and intimidation of...

Leaked Emirati emails have shed light on the extent of the UAE’s involvement in Libya over the summer, the New York Times revealed. The emails show weapons were shipped...

The current Palestinian uprising has provided an opportunity to analyse, and reject, the dissociation imposed upon Palestine by the international community. Social media has been replete with graphic images...

The Palestinian Authority’s Minister of National Economy, Abeer Oudeh, has welcomed the EU decision to label Israeli settlement products sold in the European market. She praised the EU decision...

The UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, has said that the conditions for the political solution in the country are in place. Hence, he seems to...

Libya's permanent ambassador to the UN has accused the British intelligence services of leaking a lengthy email to the Guardian newspaper which was sent by former UN envoy Bernardino...

The UK is suffering a crisis of “confidence” in its foreign policy, former British diplomats, intelligence officers and academics have warned, the Guardian reported yesterday. The crisis left the...