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UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) yesterday rejected recent appointments by Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to the two state oil companies. On Saturday, Hadi appointed Ammar Nasser Al-Awlaki...

UAE introduces new civil law for non-Muslims in Abu Dhabi allowing them to marry, divorce and get joint child custody

Germany, on Friday, voiced concerned about the ongoing tensions between Lebanon and several Gulf states over critical remarks by a Lebanese minister regarding the Saudi military campaign in Yemen....

Cuts to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) budget, including halving the UK's annual grant, has left the agency close to collapse, the Commissioner-General Philippe...

At Oriental Paper Products, a stationery factory outside Beirut, machinery sits idle and shifts have been reduced. The firm was already struggling amid Lebanon's financial crisis; a full-blown diplomatic...

The United States yesterday called for opening diplomatic channels between Lebanon and the Gulf states, after tensions mounted following the release of statements by Lebanese Minister of Information, George...

Turkey has signed two separate deals with the UAE and Pakistan that have reactivated the International Road Transport (TIR) system that allows goods to cross international borders tax-free en...

The head of the Sudanese army held a secret meeting with coup leader turned President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, the day before he suspended Khartoum's government, the Wall Street...

The United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates yesterday called for the "full and immediate" restoration of the civilian-led transitional institutions including the government in Sudan....

Alarm bells are ringing at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow over the perilous fate of the planet. The threat of a "doomsday" scenario was echoed in the speeches...

Watch our conversation with international law specialist Toby Cadman as we discuss details of the legal case he filed to the UK police and the Crown Prosecution Service about alleged Saudi and UAE war crimes in Yemen

The United Arab Emirates has sent $10 million to Turkey to contribute to the reconstruction of some regions that were affected by wildfires and floods, WAM reported. The move follows the...

A number of Libyan General Khalifa Haftar's aides arrived in Israel yesterday onboard a private plane that took off from the UAE, Israeli journalist Itay Blumental said. Taking to Twitter, Blumental said: "An executive plane...

Last Thursday, Jewish businessman Sylvan Adams told an Israeli channel that FIFA is seriously considering Israel, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt to co-host the football World Cup in...

Banners have been raised in Yemen's capital, Sana'a, expressing solidarity with an outspoken Lebanese minister who criticised the Saudi-led coalition's on-going war against Yemen. The condemnation has led to...

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has urged Information Minister George Kordahi to "put his patriotic sense above all else" to defuse a crisis with Saudi Arabia, Reuters reported the Beirut-based Al...

Lebanon's Information Minister George Kordahi said in a television interview Yemen's Houthis are only defending themselves from external aggression in the form of the Saudi-led coalition causing a diplomatic row

The military attaché at the Embassy of Yemen in Turkey Askar Zoail says more needs to be done to bring peace to Yemen and the region

Candidates from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Morocco will take part in the Miss Universe pageant in Israel in December, ignoring calls for a boycott. The 70th Miss...

The United Arab Emirates foreign ministry yesterday summoned the Lebanese ambassador and handed him a letter of protest over comments made by Lebanon's Information Minister, George Kordahi, about Saudi Arabia and the...

The United Arab Emirates has sent 12 Yemenis, initially detained at the Guantanamo Bay US military prison, to Yemen where they are expected to be released, Reuters reported a local official...

Three refugees are claiming that the UAE has funded war crimes committed by the terrorist group Daesh during the Syrian conflict, in what has been described as a landmark British court...

Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi today denied having a hostile stance towards Saudi Arabia and said that comments he made about the Yemen war were made in a personal...

Ibrahim Nasser was welcomed at the Palmachim air base in central Israel by an honour guard led by the Commander of the Israeli Air Force, Amikam Norkin

Palestinian Authority (PA) envoy to Dubai 2020 Expo, Majed Faraj, yesterday met with Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashed Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and crown prince of the UAE....

The head of Hamas' political wing, Ismail Haniyeh, announced yesterday that several Arab countries had pledged to help release the group's detainees in Saudi Arabia. Haniyeh told Rai Alyoum that...

One of the gains from the much talked about American "pivot" towards Asia is the genuine prospect for geopolitical recalibration. As implausible as this may sound, amongst the shifting...

Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed an agreement yesterday to cooperate on multiple space projects, including the launch of the "Beresheet 2" mission to the moon scheduled...

When Jordanian King Abdullah II spoke with Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, on the phone earlier this month, it set a precedent that thawed a decade of ice between the...

Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates' de facto ruler, discussed developments in Syria and the Middle East with Syria's President, Bashar Al-Assad...

Dubai has signed a memorandum of understanding with the far-right Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi to build infrastructure in Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir. Details of the MoU were...

The horizon seems to have become blocked for Khalifa Haftar and his political future is dependent on the developments of the American position on the Libyan crisis and the...