Egypt unveils plan for new desert city in latest megaproject
The new city, named Jirian meaning "Flow" in Arabic, is part of Egypt's Nile Delta scheme, a massive agricultural initiative...Geostrategy
Saudi top diplomat says ‘at vanguard’ of efforts to rebuild Syria after 14 years of civil war
On a visit to Riyadh earlier this month, US President Donald Trump said he would lift US sanctions on Syria,...Geostrategy
Saudi envoy to US deplores Western media criticism of women rights in kingdom
Washington D.C., US--– Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the US, Reema Bandar Al-Saud, has expressed disappointment with recent media criticism of...The ambassador, reacting to an opinion piece in the Washington Post, slammed the piece for relying on "outdated stereotypes and western-centric views"
She cited inaccuracies in the portrayal of Saudi women as oppressed and devoid of rights and said that the kingdom has made substantial progress in women's rights
We want complete ceasefire, not temporary truce: Hamas
Taher al-Nunu, a senior Hamas official, said his group wanted a "complete and comprehensive ceasefire, and not a temporary truce."...Extensive talks in Paris had resulted in a framework for a phased truce
The framework would see women and children hostages released first
Two million people may die in Gaza without world’s help: Turkish foreign minister
Ankara, Turkey - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday expressed serious apprehensions about the escalating situation in the Gaza...Hakan Fidan described the current events as "a tragedy on another scale" and emphasized the need for prompt preventive measures
If people in Gaza also begin to die of hunger and disease, it will become a great moral burden that the world will not be able to bear, he said
Israeli troops bulldoze, desecrate Palestinian graves in Gaza
Palestinian Territories - Even the dead are not spared by the Hamas-Israel war raging in Gaza, with bodies dug up...In Gaza City's Al-Tuffah district, shrouded corpses of Palestinians torn from their graves lay atop muddied earth.
Israel's military had bulldozed the site and exhumed bodies, according to an AFP photographer who visited it.
Residents of Gaza lament suspension of UN agency funding
Gazans lamented the suspension of funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees by several donor countries after Israel charged...Several countries, including the United States, France, Britain, Germany and Japan, have announced the suspension of further funding to the agency.
In Rafah, where 1.5 million displaced people have taken refuge, Gazans said that the support they received from the agency amounted to a lifeline.
Gaza bombing continues amid fears of wider regional conflict
Israel's relentless military offensive has since killed at least 26,422 people in Gaza, most of them women and children, according...140 Palestinians were killed by Israeli bombing overnight, including 20 members of one family, said the health ministry in the Palestinian territory.
In the latest efforts to broker a new ceasefire, CIA chief William Burns met top Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari officials in Paris on Sunday, but no breakthrough was reported.
Pakistan and Iran vow to restore ties after cross-border strikes
Tehran carried out strikes against an anti-Iran group in Pakistan on January 16, the same week the nation's military targeted...During Pakistan visit, Iranian foreign minister said the hostilities could not be described as a "crisis" because relations had always been strong
Pakistan Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani told the same briefing that both sides had agreed to strengthen dialogue at all levels
DAE, Turkish Airlines ink pact
Turkish Airlines will take on lease 10 Boeing 737-8 aircraft.The aircraft are scheduled to be delivered in 2025.
DAE owns and manages 96 737 MAX family aircraft.
Iran denies links to Jordan drone strike that killed 3 US troops
US President Joe Biden said on Sunday that "radical Iran-backed fighters groups operating in Syria and Iraq" were behind the...US Central Command said 34 personnel were also wounded, eight of whom required evacuation
The strike marked the first US military losses since the war between Israel and Hamas began
Iran puts to death men convicted of spying for Israel
The four defendants, identified as Mohammad Faramarzi, Mohsen Mazloum, Wafa Azarbar, Pejman Fatehi, were arrested in July 2022 and accused...The men had been recruited by Mossad "about a year and a half before the operation"
They were sent to African countries for "training courses in the military centres"
