UN says four staff wounded in south Lebanon blast
The military observers, from Australia, Chile and Norway, and a Lebanese language assistant had been on foot patrol around the...Geostrategy
Five killed in Gaza aid delivery chaos, say medics
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories - The Palestine Red Crescent said five people were killed and dozens wounded by gunfire and a...Geostrategy
Middle East heating at twice the global average: Study
Nicosia, Cyprus - The Middle East is heating at nearly twice the global average, threatening potentially devastating impacts on its...The study found an average increase of 0.45 degrees Celsius per decade across the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean region.
Oil-rich Middle East is on course to becoming one of the world's leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
Queen Elizabeth II, longest-serving British monarch, passes away at 96
The eldest of her four children, Charles, Prince of Wales, who at 73 is the oldest heir apparent in British...Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne aged just 25 in 1952 in the aftermath of World War II, Her 70-year reign straddled two centuries of seismic upheavals.
She was also head of the 56-nation Commonwealth, which takes in a quarter of humanity, and supreme governor of the Church of England.
Egypt vows to champion climate finance for Africa at COP27
Egypt's environment minister Yasmine Fouad said that Egypt will also remind rich countries of the industrialized world of their unfulfilled...African countries are among the most exposed to the impacts of climate change, especially worsening droughts and floods, but responsible for only around 3% percent of emissions.
The 2015 Paris agreement requires developed countries to "provide financial resources to assist developing country parties" in curbing their emissions.
Future Investment Initiative Institute to hold events in Riyadh, New York
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-- The Future Investment Initiative Institute said Thursday two of its major events will be held in September...The PRIORITY summit will be held on the sidelines of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 22.
Serving as platforms aimed at finding solutions to global issues, the two events will bring together experts and policymakers.
Egypt to set up framework to regulate streaming platform content
Egypt is to establish a licensing framework for digital entertainment platforms like Netflix that will require them to conform to...The announcement comes just days after Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbours asked Netflix to drop content that conflicted with Islamic social values.
Egypt's Supreme Council for Media Regulation vowed to take the "necessary steps in the event of the streaming of content contrary to the values of society".
UN says human progress set back five years by Covid
Depicting a gloomy picture of the state of human progress, a United Nations report argues that an unprecedented array of...The Human Development Index has steadily risen for decades, but began sliding in 2020 and continued its fall in 2021, erasing the gains of the preceding five years
A large contributor to the Human Development Index's recent decline is a global drop in life expectancy, down from 73 years in 2019 to 71.4 years in 2021
UN says Iran can make a nuclear bomb in three weeks
The UN atomic watchdog has warned Iran has enough enriched uranium to make a bomb in three weeks and that...The IAEA has been demanding answers from Iran on the presence of nuclear material at three undeclared sites
The latest reports come as talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program remain stalled
US condemns Iran’s cyberattack on Albania, its ally
US has threatened to launch ‘further action’ against Iran for what it called an ‘unprecedented’ cyberattack against its ally Albania....The incident comes as the United States and European powers struggle to salvage an agreement that would impose strict controls on Iran's controversial nuclear sector
Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama accused Iran of directing a cyberattack against Albanian institutions on July 15 in a bid to "paralyze public services and hack data"
Tunisia’s opposition alliance to boycott December elections
Tunisia's main opposition alliance said Wednesday its members including the once-powerful Ennahdha party would boycott December polls to replace a...The vote is set for nearly a year and a half after President Kais Saied suspended the Ennahdha-dominated assembly and sacked the government.
Saied was welcomed by many Tunisians tired of what they saw as a fractious and corrupt system established after the 2011 revolution.
Qatar reopens mothballed Doha airport to ease World Cup traffic
The Doha airport has been in semi-retirement since it was replaced in 2014 by the nearby Hamad International Airport, which...Hamad International Airport was used by three million passengers in June alone and 8.42 million in the second quarter of 2022, 18 percent higher than Q1 traffic.
But with 150,000 people a day expected to arrive during the peak days of the World Cup, some aviation analysts have said Hamad airport might struggle to cope.
