Netanyahu meets Trump for tariff and Gaza talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, becoming the first foreign leader to...Geostrategy
Tens of thousands march in US against Trump ‘devastation’
Opponents of the Republican president's policies -- from government staffing cuts to trade tariffs and eroding civil liberties -- rallied...Geostrategy
Morocco intercepts 550 migrants trying to reach Europe
Coastguards of the kingdom's navy operating in the Mediterranean and Atlantic rescued 552 illegal migrants of varying nationalities between April...Morocco in northwest Africa is a transit country for many migrants trying to get to Europe -- Spain's mainland or its Canary Islands in the Atlantic
According to the United Nations, the first quarter of 2023 was the deadliest since 2017 for Europe-bound migrants in the Mediterranean
Lebanon expels dozens of Syrian refugees amid dire economic crisis: security officials
Lebanese authorities have long pushed for Syrian refugees to return, and have made several repatriation efforts they describe as voluntary,...Hundreds of thousands of Syrians fled to neighbouring Lebanon after the country's civil war began in 2011 with the brutal suppression of anti-regime protests
The army officials said that Lebanese authorities did not deport the refugees, adding that some of the expelled refugees had returned to Lebanon with the help of smugglers
Saudi, Iran foreign ministers talk on phone, discuss next steps in ties
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah received a phone call from...China recently brokered the restoration of ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia, rivals in a region where the US for decades has been the main diplomatic powerbroker
The two Middle East powerhouses had held several rounds of dialogue in Iraq and Oman before reaching the agreement to mend ties on March 10 in China
Palestinians and Israelis share iftar in West Bank to ‘end hatred’
"(We're a) group of people that wants to end the situation of violence and the hatred between members of the...The iftar meal is a rare attempt at cross-community dialogue amid a spike in violence in the Palestinian territory.
Among around 50 guests were an Israeli paratrooper in uniform, an extreme-right Jewish activist and left-wing Israelis.
US denies Iranian claims of forcing its submarine to surface
TEHRAN, IRAN- Iran said on Thursday it had "forced" a US submarine to surface as it was crossing the strategic Strait...The submarine was "approaching and passing in complete silence" when it partly entered Iranian waters, said an Irani official
An Iranian submarine then forced it to "surface and cross the strait", he said, adding that Tehran would raise the matter with "international authorities"
Baghdad security chief fired after Iraqi cleric flees jail
Baghdad, Iraq -- Iraq's premier sacked Thursday a security chief in Baghdad, his office said in a statement, after a...Saad Qambash, once head of Iraq's Sunni Waqf, the state body overseeing religious and civilian properties for Sunni Muslims, was jailed for four years earlier this month for fraud.
Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani also ordered the closure of the detention facility in the capital's Green Zone from which the senior cleric fled on Tuesday night.
US denounces ‘troubling escalation’ of opposition arrests in Tunisia
Condemning the arrests of political opponents in Tunisia, the US government on Wednesday said that respect for freedom of expression...More than 20 political critics and personalities have been arrested in the North African country since early February
The country whose many citizens have been attempting to run to Europe is heavily indebted and facing high inflation and unemployment
UN chief to host meeting on Afghanistan in Doha to seek ‘way forward’
Seeking a "durable way forward" for the war-scarred Afghanistan, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is convening an international meeting in...In the wake of a ban on Afghan women working for the world body, the UN mission in Afghanistan has begun an assessment of its operations
The Doha meeting announcement follows the UN estimate that the number of Afghans in poverty has nearly doubled to 34 million since the Taliban takeover
Yemen stampede kills 85 at a charity distribution event
In one of the deadliest stampedes in a decade, more than 80 people died and hundreds were injured at a...The incident occured inside a school where aid was being distributed among hundreds of people gathered to receive handouts
According to the UN, more than two-thirds of the population lives below the poverty line, including employees who have not been paid in years
Syrian Kurds ready for talks with Damascus, sharing resources
"We affirm our readiness to meet and talk with the Syrian government and with all Syrian parties to hold discussions...President Bashar al-Assad rejects the Kurdish administration in parts of Syria and accuses it of "separatism".
Several rounds of talks since 2018 between Damascus and the Kurds have failed to achieve any results.
