Washington, United States -- The White House issued a major clarification Saturday to its new H-1B visa policy that had...
France and the UK will be the first permanent UN Security Council members to recognise a Palestinian state and, along...
TRIPOLI, LIBYA - Libyan authorities have imposed "severe restrictions" on local and international civil society groups, obstructing their work in the...The rights watchdog said authorities must take step like adoption of a "civil society organization law that guarantees the right tot freedom of association."
Human Rights Watch called for a reform of the penal code, and “redefining criminal acts to exclude peaceful exercise of the right to express opinions."
- The move came a day after the arrest of the party's leader, Rached Ghannouchi, 81, at his home in the...
Since early February, authorities in the North African country have arrested more than 20 political opponents and personalities.
Ghannouchi was the speaker of Tunisia's parliament before Saied dissolved it and went on to seize wide-reaching powers through a series of moves opponents have dubbed a "coup".
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's chief rival in next month's election defended Kurdish rights on Tuesday and accused the...Kemal Kilicdaroglu leads a six-party alliance that is posing one of the stiffest electoral challenges of Erdogan's two-decade rule.
Kilicdaroglu's comments followed weeks of attempts by Erdogan to link the opposition with Kurdish militants fighting the Turkish state.
Recent months have seen increasing Arab engagement with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been politically isolated in the region...The visit of Saudi diplomat comes less than a week after Syrian Foreign Minister visited Saudi Arabia, also on the first such visit since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011
Prince Faisal said in February that a consensus was building in the Arab world that a new approach to Syria requiring negotiations would be needed to address the conflict
- Seeing no way out of a political crisis that has prevented the country from having an effective government, Kuwait's emir...
In 1962, Kuwait embraced a parliamentary system, but repeated political crises have caused state paralysis
The rich country, unlike other Gulf Arab states, has a vigorous political life in which MPs and civil society regularly take the authorities to task
After two days of talks in the bucolic Japanese mountain resort town Karuizawa, the top diplomats from leading economies unveiled...G7 foreign ministers also put Beijing on notice over its "militarization activities" in the South China Sea and insisted their Taiwan policy was unchanged.
Their final statement sparked a furious reaction from China, which said it had been "maliciously slandered and smeared".
- Calling on warring parties in Sudan to immediately cease hostilities, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that any further escalation...
The UN's special representative to Sudan told reporters that the violence raged for a third day through Monday, with the death toll increasing to at least 185 people
The fighting broke out between the two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: Sudan's army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo
- Yemen faces its best chance to strike a peace deal since the country's civil war started over eight years ago,...
The Arabian Peninsula country is one of the poorest in the Middle East, and has been devastated by the war, which started in 2014.
The government and the rebels have exchanged nearly 900 prisoners in recent days, as hopes grow for peace.
- PARIS, FRANCE - Air France and plane manufacturer Airbus were acquitted Monday over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight after...
The two companies went on trial in October to determine their responsibility for the worst aviation disaster in Air France's history.
If convicted, Air France, Airbus would have risked a fine of US$250,000 as well as significant reputational damage.
- The two countries had severed ties seven years ago after Saudi Arabia executed a revered Saudi shia cleric Sheikh Nimr...
The two Middle East powerhouses had held several rounds of dialogue in Iraq and Oman before reaching the agreement to mend ties on March 10 in China.
Saudi delegation to visit Iran to discuss the reopening of the embassy and consulate. Iranian officials say diplomatic mission likely to open before May 9.
