Dubai, UAE -- Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has completed 30% of a project to build 14.5 km of...
- Vance said that if he were serving in Israel's cabinet, he would not be "attacking the only powerful ally that...
The United Nations estimated in late August that about one million Palestinians lived in and around Gaza's largest urban centre,...The United Nations estimated in late August that about one million Palestinians lived in and around Gaza's largest urban centre
The world body and members of the international community have urged the military to abandon its plans to capture the city
The widow of prominent right-wing activist Charlie Kirk pledged Friday to carry on her husband's work, after US authorities announced...Investigators had appeared to be making slow progress in the hunt for whoever gunned down Donald Trump's close ally, until they released security camera images of a young man
The 31-year-old Kirk was hit by a single bullet while addressing a large crowd at Utah Valley University in the town of Orem on Wednesday
Russia said Friday that peace talks with Kyiv were on "pause" as President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that his Russian counterpart...Despite Trump forcing the warring sides to hold direct talks and hosting Putin in Alaska, there has been no significant progress towards ending the war
Russia's army has gained territory and Putin has vowed to carry on fighting if his peace demands -- including Ukraine ceding yet more land -- are not met
- Israel has said it intends to capture the territory's largest urban centre, which it describes as one of the last...
Israel has said it intends to capture the territory's largest urban centre, which it describes as one of the last strongholds of the Palestinian militant group Hamas
The United Nations and members of the international community have warned against the assault for fear it will worsen the already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza City
- Istanbul's jailed opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu went on trial Friday on charges of falsifying his university degree.
The mayor is a popular figure, regarded as the only politician capable of beating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the ballot box
He was detained on March 19 and jailed several days later as part of a corruption investigation, a move that sparked Turkey's worst street protests in over a decade
- Beijing, China -- China urged the United States on Friday to address their TikTok dispute through dialogue, as top leaders...
The deadline for the popular app to find a non-Chinese buyer or be banned in the United States is September 17, after President Donald Trump extended it for the third time.
A federal law requiring TikTok's sale or ban on national security grounds was due to take effect the day before Trump's January inauguration.
- The text was adopted by 142 votes in favor, 10 against -- including Israel and key ally the United States...
It also calls for "collective action to end the war in Gaza, to achieve a just, peaceful and lasting settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the effective implement
The New York Declaration includes discussion of a "deployment of a temporary international stabilization mission" to the battered region.
The UAE, along with Bahrain, was the first Gulf country to normalize ties with Israel in 2020 and has been...Friday's rare summoning was the strongest in a chorus of condemnations as anger boils in the Gulf over Israel's strike on a region long shielded from Middle Eastern conflicts.
The rebuke comes amid a diplomatic frenzy over the attack with an emergency Arab-Islamic summit planned in Doha to discuss a regional response to the attack.
- Tehran, Iran - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that enriched nuclear material remained "under the rubble" of facilities...
"All of our material is... under the rubble of the bombed facilities," said Araghchi in an interview, adding that Iran's Atomic Energy Organization was assessing the condition
The remarks came after Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) agreed a new cooperation framework on Tuesday
- The UN Security Council announced it would hold an emergency meeting Friday to discuss discuss violations of Poland's airspace, a...
Poland said the incident was not accidental, branding it an "unprecedented" attack on Poland, NATO and the European Union
Stray Russian drones and missiles have entered the airspace of NATO members including Poland several times since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in 2022
