- The 55-year-old Harvard graduate, who steered Greece from the coronavirus pandemic back to two consecutive years of strong growth, had...
Polling stations opened for the second round of general elections in five weeks at 7:00 am (0400 GMT) while the first exit polls are expected at 7:00 pm when polls close
As election rules this time round would accord up to 50 bonus seats to the winner of the vote, Mitsotakis's New Democracy party is widely projected to emerge victorious
- Libya's internal turmoil may worsen with the head of the country's east-based administration threatening to block oil and gas exports...
Hamad also said that he had "frozen" 2022 oil revenues "equivalent to more than 130 billion dinars" (around $27 billion) as a first step
He accused the government in Tripoli of squandering energy revenues by making "extravagant spending", without elaborating
- NEW YORK, US - Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the United Nations signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed...
A training program for Kuwaitis and the establishment of special workshops in the field of combating terrorism was discussed.
The country has tried to strengthen global partnerships in combating terrorism, Kuwait's assistant minister said.
- After Putin's speech accusing him of treason, Prigozhin launched a second broadside. "On treason of the motherland: the president is...
The rapidly escalating events mark the most serious challenge to the Kremlin chief's long rule, and Russia's most serious security crisis since the strongman came to power in l999
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, once a close Putin ally, said his troops had taken control of the military command centre and bases in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don
- Tehran, Iran--Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations has rejected the claim by the United States and its allies about...
Iran's mission to the UN said that claims are made to influene the UN head's report on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 2231
US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfiled claimed in a joint statement at the Security Council Stakeout that Iran and Russia were boosting military ties
- In a rare acknowledgment, the Israeli army said that it "failed" to prevent an attack by Jewish settlers on a...
The Israeli army spokesman said troops sought to stop Israelis from attacking Turmus Ayya but they were stretched too thin
Taking a strong note of the attack, the EU's top representative to the Palestinians said Israel had failed to meet its obligations to protect Palestinians
- With violence escalating between Palestinians and Israelis, Morocco has postponed a meeting of Arab allies of Israel it was due...
Top diplomats from Bahrain, Egypt and the UAE as well as Morocco joined last year's meeting with the Israeli foreign minister
The country normalized its relations with Israel more than two years back as part of a deal with the US to recognize its annexation of Western Sahara
- The 10-truck convoy reach rebel-held Al-Nayrab in Idlib province from the direction of regime-held Saraqib, headed for storage facilities near...
A February 6 earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, including areas of the war-torn country's Idlib region that are controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
The UN largely delivers relief to Syria's northwest via neighboring Turkey through the Bab al-Hawa crossing -- the only way for aid to enter without Damascus's involvement.
- MUSCAT, OMAN - Oman announced the seizure of over six million captagon pills during a bust aided by Saudi Arabia that...
Omani authorities did not specify the intended destination of the drug shipment, but neighboring Saudi Arabia is believed to be the largest market for the drug.
The vast majority of the region's captagon is produced in Syria and Lebanon and smuggled to its main consumer market in the Gulf.





















