Hussein al-Sheikh, vice-president of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), on Tuesday said he met the US ambassador to Israel, Mike...
US President Donald Trump was "caught off guard" by Israeli strikes in Syria last week, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt...
Seeking to reduce its dependence on crude, the world's biggest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, has said that the kingdom intends...Riyadh approved its national atomic energy policy in March 2018 which limited nuclear activities to peaceful purposes and called for enhanced safety measures
In 2021, the United Arab Emirates announced that its Barakah nuclear power plant had begun commercial operations as the first in the Arab world
- Tehran, Iran -- Iran has protested to Iraq over the use of the name "Arabian Gulf" for a regional football competition...
The Islamic republic insists the body of water should be called the "Persian Gulf".
It is the first time Iraq has hosted the biennial competition -- referred to as the "Gulf Cup".
The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2023 says conflict and geo-economic tensions have triggered a series of deeply interconnected...The report said the window for action on the most serious long-term threats is closing rapidly and concerted, collective action is needed before risks reach a tipping point.
Failure to mitigate and adapt to climate change, natural disasters, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation represent five of the top 10 risks.
- Israel's new firebrand National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir ordered the police commander on Sunday to authorize officers to remove Palestinian...
Amnesty called the new measures "repressive" and an "audacious attack on the rights to nationality, freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly"
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the new National Security Minister who has ordered to remove Palestinian flags flying in public spaces, has a history of inflammatory remarks about Palestinians
- TiKTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew held official talks for the first time with EU vice presidents Margrethe Vestager and...
TikTok has come under fierce Western scrutiny in recent months over concerns about how much access Beijing has to user data
Last month, TikTok admitted that ByteDance staff accessed data from the app to track journalists in a bid to identify the source of leaks to the media
- DUBAI, UAE - The US Navy said Tuesday it had seized over 2,000 assault rifles smuggled on a fishing boat along...
A grinding war has killed hundreds of thousands and pushed Yemen to the brink of famine.
A UN-brokered ceasefire that took effect in April brought a sharp reduction in hostilities.
Around 150 representatives from Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the UAE and the United States discussed boosting security cooperation through information...The US State Department described the two-day discussion in #AbuDhabi as "the largest meeting between Israel and its regional partners" since a 1991 Madrid conference.
The Abu Dhabi gathering follows a visit last week to Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque compound by Israel's new right-wing national security minister, firebrand Itamar Ben-Gvir.
ABU DHABI, UAE - Masdar has announced the signing of an agreement with the Ministry of Energy of Kyrgyz Republic...The projects, with a total capacity of up to 1 gigawatt (GW), start with a 200-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) plant.
The 200 MW plant is scheduled to begin operation by 2026.
- The annual figure was released one day after an 11-year-old girl was shot dead in a gun attack on an...
Seizures in 2022 were up from 89.5 tons last year. Across the Netherlands border, in nearby Rotterdam and Vlissingen, Dutch police battling the same gangs intercepted a further 52.
The European drugs monitoring agency estimated in 2020 that the EU retail cocaine market was worth between 7.7 billion and 10.5 billion euros.
- The last eight years were the warmest. Average temperatures across 2022 -- which saw a cascade of unprecedented natural disasters...
Pakistan and northern India were scorched by a two-month spring heatwave with sustained temperatures well above 40 degrees C, followed in Pakistan by massive floods.
Large swathes of the Middle East, China, central Asia and northern Africa also saw unprecedented warmth averaged across the whole of 2022.
