Crowds of people rallied in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, waving flags and holding posters of president Mahmud Abbas...
- The Global Sumud Flotilla, also carrying prominent pro-Palestinian advocates including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, set sail for Gaza earlier...
Israel told the UN it was justified in carrying out strikes on Gaza, even as its overall human rights record...The Israeli army said that in its Gaza air strikes, it had targeted three leaders of Islamic Jihad, which it considers legitimate target.
Gaza health ministry said four children were among those killed and 20 people were wounded, some of them in serious or critical condition.
The sides will "exchange views on the normalization of relations between Turkey and Syria, discuss humanitarian issues... and the voluntary,...The top diplomats of Russia and Iran will also be a part of the meeting in Moscow, Turkey's foreign ministry said in a statement.
Erdogan had turned into one of Assad's fiercest opponents when the violent repression of protests set off Syria's civil war in 2011.
MADRID, SPAIN - The World Tourism Barometer published its second report of the year, which showed that international tourism is...During Q1 2023, twice as many people traveled internationally than in the same period of 2022, with 235 million estimated tourists.
The report revealed that international arrivals have reached 80 percent of pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter of 2023.
- Heavy fighting in Sudan has displaced 700,000 people within the country since the middle of April, the United Nations said,...
Even before the beginning of the fighting, 3.7 million people were registered as internally displaced in Sudan.
Another 150,000 people have fled Sudan since the beginning of the conflict, as per numbers released by the UN refugee agency.
- Thanks to the jump in the fund, the Agriculture Innovation Mission (AIM) for Climate, launched in 2021, now surpasses its...
Projects such as greener fertilizers are underway that use less fossil fuels to create, and returning to so-called "regenerative agriculture" practices that restore biodiversity
US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and his Emirati counterpart Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, are co-hosting an AIM for Climate Summit in Washington this week
China said it had filed an official protest over breaches of international law and diplomatic norms, and accused Canada of...Candian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly declared the diplomat "persona non grata" and said "Canada would not tolerate any form of foreign interference in our internal affairs"
According to a source familiar with the matter, Zhao Wei, an official at the Chinese consulate in Toronto at the heart of the affair, has been asked to leave Canada
- According to the health ministry of the Hamas-ruled Gaza, 12 people were killed, including women and children. Among the deceased...
The Israeli attack on Gaza comes less than a week after Islamic Jihad declared an Egypt-brokered truce, in the wake of a fresh surge in violence
Cross-border fire between Israel and Gaza fighters raged in the wake of the death in Israeli detention of Khader Adnan, who was on hunger strike for 87 days
the EU delegation to Israel said it would still celebrate Europe Day on Tuesday but regretted that "this year we...Ben-Gvir, who has a history of inflammatory remarks about Palestinians, was charged more than 50 times in his youth with incitement to violence or hate speech.
Israeli government officials confirmed on Monday that Ben-Gvir "was designated (by the government) to attend the EU event".
- A majority of the people who voted in a TRENDS poll see the China-brokered deal between the two countries as...
Fifty-nine percent of the voters said the agreement would improve the situation, while 24 percent voted 'no'. The rest are not sure if the deal will be positive for the region.
The majority of the voters were in the 20-29 age group (41.3 percent), followed by 30-39 years (37.3 percent), 40-49 years (13.5 percent) and the rest were 50 and above.
ABU DHABI, UAE -Â Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) has signed an agreement with the government of Mauritania to...The total value of the project, financed by several Arab and international financing institutions, is US$320 million.
The main objective of the project is to provide potable water to around 92 cities and villages in Mauritania.
