- Israel condemned the "severe" expulsion of a senior diplomat from the African Union summit, accusing Iran of orchestrating the move...
A spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry described the incident as "severe," noting Bar-li was "an accredited observer with an entry tag".
African states should "oppose these actions, which harm the African Union movement and the entire continent," the spokesman added.
- SFAX, TUNISIA - Thousands of Tunisian trade unionists held protests across the country on Saturday over worsening economic woes and the...
The North African country is in drawn-out talks with the International Monetary Fund for a bailout loan
Demonstrators in Sfax, where the largest protest took place on Saturday, chanted "Tunisia is not for sale!"
- DUBAI, UAE - Minister of State for Foreign Trade Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi has marked the first anniversary...
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry is on a four-day visit to the UAE to mark the signing of CEPA.
The FICCI delegation comprises over 100 exporters, start-ups and business owners.
- The death toll from an attack blamed on the Islamic State group in Syria has risen to 68, a war...
The attack takes the total number murdered in suspected IS attacks in the Syrian desert to 90 since February 10.
The monitor said that IS was taking advantage of the annual harvest of the desert fungus delicacy.
- Abu Dhabi, UAE--The first batch of naval vessels arrived at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre Waterfront (ADNEC Marina) today,...
The first batch comprised of seven naval vessels of different sizes and uses, coming from a range of countries
NAVDEX 2023 will be held in conjunction with IDEX 2023 from 20th-24th February
- In one of the deadliest attacks carried out by the IS this year, some 53 people were killed on Friday...
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported the attack, which it said was carried out by jihadists on motorcycles who opened fire on the truffle hunters
The UN has said that despite setbacks, the jihadist group has "maintained its ability to launch attacks at a steady pace"
- WASHINGTON, US - An explosion wounded four American military personnel during a raid that killed a senior Islamic State (IS) group...
US leads an international coalition battling IS and conducts periodic raids and strikes targeting the group.
The US troops and the dog are being treated at an American medical facility in Iraq.
- TUNIS, TUNISIA - A goalkeeper at a top-flight Tunisian football club has reached Italy as a clandestine migrant, his club said...
Tunisia is struggling with a grinding economic crisis that has seen a growing wave of clandestine migration attempts in recent months.
Rome says over 32,000 migrants, including 18,000 Tunisians, reached Italy from Tunisia last year.
- Seismologists warn that a massive earthquake is likely to strike Turkey's biggest city -- officially home to 16 million people...
Independent urban scholar Murat Guney said carnage can be avoided if the government has the political will to relocate people from shoddy buildings filling the city's shanty towns.
Guney said Istanbul had around 1,166,000 residential buildings but 70 percent of these constructed before 1999 quake when no quake inspections were conducted.
- The 7.8-magnitude quake hit Turkey and Syria on February 6, leaving a combined death toll of nearly 40,000 people. Since...
Some 120 planes laden with assistance have landed in the Syrian airports, about half of them from the United Arab Emirates
At least 3,600 Syrians died in the quake, which came nearly 12 years into the country's civil war - that has devastated swathes of the country





















