His death at the age of 74 closed a defining chapter in the country's modern history. During his 18-year reign...
The latest incident follows weeks of escalating tensions over a US-backed maritime corridor through Omani territorial waters, a route Iran...
Israel has pummeled Gaza City with air strikes and tank fire in its bid to seize it, nearly two years...The assault comes ahead of a planned move by several Western governments, including Britain and France, to recognize a Palestinian state at a UN summit next week.
Israeli fire killed at least 33 people across the territory on Friday, 18 of them in Gaza City, according to a tally of figures given by Gaza hospitals contacted by AFP.
The United States on Thursday again wielded its veto and thwarted a UN Security Council call for a ceasefire in...The 14 other members of the Council backed the resolution, initiated in August in response to the UN's official declaration of famine after nearly two years of Israel's war
The vote came as Israeli tanks and jets pounded Gaza City, the target of a major new ground offensive, forcing Palestinians to flee south
- Kicking off Monday, Saudi Arabia and France will co-chair meetings on the future of the Israeli and Palestinian two-state solution, which...
Kicking off Monday, Saudi Arabia and France will co-chair meetings on the future of the Israeli and Palestinian two-state solution, which aims to see both sides existing alongside
One world leader who will miss the gathering is Mahmud Abbas, the Palestinian president who Washington denied US visas to attend, along with his officials
- Doha, Qatar -- Qatar has met with the president of the International Criminal Court as it seeks legal action against...
Last week's deadly Israeli strike targeted Qatar-based leaders of Hamas and sent shock waves through the Gulf states that have long depended on the US for their security.
Qatar, as an observer state at the ICC, cannot itself refer cases to the court.
- US President Donald Trump left for a historic second state visit to Britain Tuesday -- but political controversies, wars and...
Britain is rolling out its royal family in a bid to woo the mercurial Trump, with security tight as protesters gear up to make their voices heard against the 79-year-old
Trump, whose mother was Scottish and who has long been fascinated by the British monarchy, was full of praise for his "friend" King Charles III as he left Washington
Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani announced on Tuesday a plan backed by Jordan and the United States to restore calm...The situation in the province has been tense since the clashes, which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said killed more than 2,000 people
Jordanian foreign minister Ayman Safadi, present at the event with US envoy Tom Barrack, said a "joint Syrian-Jordanian-American mechanism" would ensure the plan's implementation
- Washington, United States -- Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times on Monday, adding...
In his suit filed Monday in federal court in Florida, Trump accuses The New York Times of a "decades-long pattern" of smears driven by feelings of "actual malice."
The lawsuit also named four New York Times reporters and the publisher Penguin Random House as defendants.
- The Path to Rebirth party, which was launched in January by Shinji Ishimaru, a former mayor of a small city...
Ishimaru came second in the 2024 Tokyo gubernatorial election but he quit the party after it failed to pick up any seats in this year's upper house elections.
The AI will not dictate political activities of party members but will focus on decisions such as distribution of its resources among members.
- This is the first time a UN-mandated investigative body has concluded the country is committing genocide and it might prompt...
After the report was published, UN rights chief Volker Turk said it was up to the courts to determine whether genocide was taking place, but warned: "We see the evidence mounting."
The report came as Israel on Tuesday launched a ground assault on Gaza City, where the UN has declared a full-blown famine.
Arab and Muslim leaders called for a review of ties with Israel after emergency talks in Doha on Monday following...A joint statement from the summit urged "all States to take all possible legal and effective measures to prevent Israel from continuing its actions against the Palestinian people."
Qatar's fellow Gulf nations the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, along with Egypt, Jordan and Morocco, were among those present that recognise Israel
