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Prime Minister Yair Lapid said that Israel's "diplomatic fight" against the deal included its national security advisor and defense minister...
Israel says a deal would facilitate the funding of Iran-supported militants, while not preventing Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon
In 2018, then-US president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the agreement designed to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon
Japan will use its place on the United Nations Security Council to push for an African seat on the top...
Japan was among five countries elected in June to hold a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for 2023 and 2024
Japanese PM also promised aid to train police officers and support "fair and transparent" elections across the continent
A year after the last wisps of smoke disappeared into the skies from the imposing chimneys of the Moorburg coal...
Russia's curtailing of gas exports to Germany in the wake of the Ukraine war has forced Berlin to make the radical decision to restart coal power stations, at least temporarily.
Germany began winding down its coal-fired power plants in the last few years, in view of meeting a target to end usage of the fossil fuel by 2030.
An economic crisis spurred by the Ukraine war is casting darkness upon Egypt's streets, as the government dims lights to...
Egypt, the world's biggest wheat importer, relied on the ex-Soviet states for over 80 percent of its grain.
Inflation hit a three-year high of 14.6 percent in July after Egypt devalued the pound
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune Saturday declared a "new, irreversible dynamic of progress" in their...
The three-day visit comes less than two months after Algeria marked six decades of independence following 132 years of French rule
It comes as European powers scramble to replace Russian energy imports - including with supplies from Algeria, Africa's top gas exporter
The new measure allow Ukrainian citizens and people from Ukraine's separatist eastern regions that Russia recognizes as independent to work...
Up until now, Ukrainians could only stay in Russia for a maximum of 90 days within a 180-day period
3.6 million Ukrainians, including 587,000 children, had entered Russia since the start of the offensive.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Saturday pledged $30 billion over three years for Africa in a virtual address to a...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Saturday pledged $30 billion over three years for Africa in a virtual address to a development conference in Tunis.
Host country Tunisia is among the countries bearing the brunt of global supply chain disruptions and price spikes since it is heavily import dependent.
Saudi Arabia and Malaysia discussed cooperation in food security and the promotion of the private sector to benefit from investment...
Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture Eng. Abdulrahman bin Abdulmohsen Al-Fadhli represented Saudi in meeting
Al-Fadhli met with Malaysia’s Minister of Agriculture and Food Industries Ronald Kiandee in Riyadh to discuss cooperation
Tunisia said Saturday it would recall its ambassador from Morocco for consultations, a day after the kingdom did the same...
Tunisian President Kais Saied had on Friday hosted Polisario chief Brahim Ghali who arrived to attend the Japanese-African investment conference TICAD.
In response to what it called a hostile and "unnecessarily provocative" act, Morocco withdrew its Tunis ambassador for consultations and cancelled its own participation.
United Nations member states ended two weeks of negotiations without a treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas, an...
Many had hoped the session would be the last and yield a final text on "the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction.
It will now be up to the UN General Assembly to resume the fifth session at a date still to be determined.