Albanese added that "this genocide has something different, is openly incited, cynically denied and relentlessly supported, armed and weaponized, while...
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani urged the international community on Sunday to "stop using double standards"...
Both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait renewed "their previous and repeated calls to the Islamic Republic of Iran to negotiate" the...The offshore field has long been focal point of contention between Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran
Kuwaiti and Saudi authorities said that "they alone have full sovereign rights to exploit the wealth in that area"
Amnesty said scores of women and girls, some as young as 12, have been subjected to sexual violence, including rape,...Amnesty International said that the crimes committed by the warring parties included sexual violence against girls as young as 12 and the indiscriminate targeting of civilians
For its report, Amnesty said it had interviewed more than 180 people, primarily in eastern Chad where refugees from Darfur have fled, or remotely via secure calls
- The talks between Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and King Abdullah focused on ways to ramp up cooperation across key strategic...
The meeting between the UAE president and Jordan's king took place at Basman Palace in Amman during the president's official visit to Jordan
The two leaders discussed various aspects of UAE-Jordan cooperation and opportunities to build on the deep, historic ties between both nations
Dubai, UAE - Human rights groups have accused Saudi Arabia of detaining five relatives of a US citizen who pursued a...The five detainees appeared briefly on Monday at the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh, which was established in 2008 to try terrorism cases.
A judge read out the names of all five but did not disclose whether they had been charged with anything or set a date for a new hearing.
- Tehran, Iran - Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched naval drills on Wednesday near strategic Gulf islands controlled by Iran but claimed by...
"The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval exercise started Wednesday morning for the defense of the Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf," said reports.
The three islands are located near the Strait of Hormuz, the vital sea passage between the Gulf and the open ocean through which a fifth of world oil output passes.
Washington, United States - They are ubiquitous in the United States, controversial in Europe and coveted in South Asia. As heatwaves...Air conditioning is responsible for the emission of approximately one billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The number of air conditioners in the world, about two billion today, is set to skyrocket as temperatures and incomes rise.
- Kuwait City, Kuwait -- As the blazing summer sun beats down on Kuwait, shoppers stroll down a promenade lined with palm...
Kuwait has always been hot, its dry summers fanned by the northwesterly shamal wind that also blows over Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
But in recent years, climate change has made summer peaks hotter and longer, said meteorologist Essa Ramadan, as periods of extreme heat have gone "from two weeks to about a month"
- In the unbearable midday heat, a Libyan patrol near the border with Tunisia comes across a black African man collapsed...
In early July, hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan African countries were driven out of the Tunisian port city of Sfax as racial tensions flared
A joint statement from United Nations agencies referred to the "unfolding tragedy" of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia's border regions
The Safer, a floating storage and offloading facility, has been moored around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the port of...UN Development Programme project manager for the Safer, Mohammed Mudawi, said more than 636,000 barrels of oil had been pumped to the replacement tanker
The UN hopes the $143 million operation will eliminate the risk of an environmental disaster that it estimates would cost $20 billion to clean up
She was appointed by the president on October 11, 2021, two and a half months after the president granted himself...Saied immediately appointed Ahmed Hachani as the new PM, who until now worked at the Tunisian central bank
The new head of government, a figure unknown to the general public, was immediately sworn in before the president
