Russia said Friday that peace talks with Kyiv were on "pause" as President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that his Russian counterpart...
The UAE, along with Bahrain, was the first Gulf country to normalize ties with Israel in 2020 and has been...
Dubai, UAE - India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Abu Dhabi today for the final leg of his two-nation...Indian PM is scheduled to meet with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and conduct a comprehensive review of the progress in bilateral relations
The visit comes after his two-day visit to Paris, where Modi participated in the Bastille Day parade as the Guest of Honour alongside French President Emmanuel Macron
A letter this week from Syrian authorities allowing use of the border crossing between Turkey and Syria "contains two unacceptable...OCHA said it was concerned that the Syrian government had "stressed that the United Nations should not communicate with entities designated as 'terrorist'
The second condition it bridled at was that ICRC and Syrian Arab Red Crescent should "supervise and facilitate the distribution of humanitarian aid" in northwest Syria
- India launched a rocket carrying an unmanned spacecraft to land on the Moon, its second attempt to do so as...
"Chandrayaan-3... has begun its journey to the Moon. Health of the spacecraft is normal," the Indian Space Research Organization said on Twitter.
The world's most populous nation has a comparatively low-budget aerospace program that is rapidly closing in on the milestones set by global space powers.
UNITED NATIONS - The COVID-19 pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and the war in Ukraine have pushed 165 million people into...The COVID-19 pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and the war in Ukraine have pushed 165 million people into poverty since 2020, the UN said.
Because of these shocks, the United Nations has called for a pause in debt repayments for developing countries.
- Amid reports of a mass grave having been found in the country's Darfur region, the African leaders summit exhorted an...
The war between rival generals in Sudan has left nearly 3,000 people dead and millions homeless
Many of Sudan's neighbors fear a spillover of the conflict into their countries, escalating the crisis
The two countries resolved to finalize a deal over Ethiopia's big dam on the Blue Nile in four months, a...The two leaders, according to a joint statement, "discussed ways of overcoming the current stalemate in negotiations"
Egypt sees the dam as an existential threat as it depends on the Nile for 97 percent of its water requirements
Microsoft did not identify the targets but a US State Department spokesperson said the department had "detected anomalous activity" and..."The threat actor Microsoft links to this incident is an adversary based in China that Microsoft calls Storm-0558," the company said
Microsoft said Storm-0558 gained access to email accounts at approximately 25 organizations including government agencies
- Around 100 protesters rallied in Tunisia's capital to demand freedom for detained critics of President Kais Saied who has ruled...
In addition to the crisis triggered by President Saied's power grab, Tunisia has been shaken by a serious financial crunch and is in search of foreign aid.
European parliamentarians expressed their opposition to any "unconditional agreement" between the EU and Tunisia, citing "the excesses" of Saied.
- We cannot shut down the energy system of today before we build the new energy system of tomorrow that is...
The phase down of fossil fuels is both "inevitable" and "essential", he said, mindful of calls by some countries for a decision at COP28 to phase out fossil fuels.
But "I don't have a magic (wand)" as to when that will happen, he told AFP in Brussels, after outlining his action plan and goals for the year-end summit.
- The Israeli army said in a statement that "a number of suspects approached the northern security fence with Lebanon and...
The incident comes amid tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border area, a stronghold of the Shiite movement and the site of sporadic skirmishes
Sources said Hezbollah members had been wounded. One said a sound grenade was fired and that three members were "lightly" hurt
