Israel, whose military is preparing to conquer Gaza City, is under mounting pressure at home and abroad to end its...
- Amnesty International said Tuesday that the Israeli army's extensive destruction of civilian property in south Lebanon, including after a ceasefire...
"Two martyrs and 28 injured as a result of the ongoing (Israeli) aggression on Jenin," a statement from the Palestinian...Jenin's deputy governor, Kamal Abu al-Rub, told AFP the Israeli forces had launched the raid at around 04:00 am (0100 GMT)
The Israeli army did not immediately provide any information on the raid in the northern West Bank city when contacted by media
According to Qatar's foreign ministry, Doha will reopen embassy in Abu Dhabi and its consulate in Dubai immediately. The UAE...Qatar foreign ministry said that the restoration of ties represents the will of both countries' leadership to strengthen join Arab collaboration
Nearly six years back, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt cut off ties with Qatar over accusations that it supported terrorism, a charge Doha denied
Blinken opened the day by meeting China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, whose position in the Communist Party ranks above the...Blinken's visit is the highest-level trip by a US official to China in nearly five years with ties severely strained between the world's two largest economies
Xi, China’s most powerful leader in decades, met Blinken at the capital’s Great Hall of the People just after 4:30 pm (0830 GMT)
- France says the two-day summit, which begins on Thursday and will bring together some 50 heads of state and government,...
Emmanuel Macron has said the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact is aimed at building a "new consensus" to meet the interlinked global targets
Ideas on the table range from taxation on shipping, fossil fuels or financial transactions, to innovations in lending and a structural rethink of IMF and World Bank
- "Efforts are underway to reopen diplomatic and consular missions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, including the reopening of Iran's embassy...
Efforts are being made to reopen diplomatic missions, including embassies and consulates, between Saudi Arabia and Iran
Resumption of normal relations is set to foster joint cooperation and positively impact both countries, says Saudi minister
Kuwait - Kuwait on Sunday formed a new government led by the Prime Minister, Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah....Saad Al Barrak was named as oil minister, replacing Bader Al-Mulla and Manaf Abdulaziz Al Hajri was reappointed as Finance Minister.
The outgoing government had resigned following parliamentary elections held earlier this month in the Gulf OPEC oil producer
- JERUSALEM- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to advance the government's controversial judicial reforms, which have seen his...
The reform package unveiled in January has been waylaid in recent months by demonstrators who have gathered weekly in their tens of thousands.
Speaking Sunday, Netanyahu pledged to press forward with the judicial reforms "in a measured and responsible way" without giving further details.
- The tablet- whose text is written in cuneiform, the Babylonian alphabet- bears the insignia of Shalmaneser III, the Assyrian king...
The tablet arrived in the 1980s in Italy, where the police seized it, said LM Hussein, director of Baghdad's council of antiquities and heritage.
The Italian authorities handed it over to Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid during a visit to Bologna over the past week.
An Algerian court of appeal increased to seven years the prison term issued to a prominent media boss, but suspended...Ihsane El Kadi did not receive any money from "foreigners or a foreign" group as claimed by authorities, the defense attorney said.
The verdict adds two years to an initial sentence handed down to El Kadi in April by a lower court for "foreign financing of his business".
- Paris, France -- President Emmanuel Macron's new special envoy for Lebanon heads to Beirut in the coming week as France seeks...
Former foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, appointed by Macron to the role earlier this month, is to fly to Beirut on Wednesday, the source told AFP, asking not to be named.
Another source close to the issue also said Le Drian would leave on Wednesday but it was not clear how long he would stay in Beirut or who he would meet.
