"The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths," the signatories, including Britain, France, Australia, Canada and 21 other...
Berlin, Germany -- Britain, France and Germany are planning to hold fresh talks with Iran on its nuclear programme in...
BEIRUT, LEBANON - An attack in eastern Syria killed 10 oil field workers, state news agency SANA reported on Friday, a...In addition to 10 dead, two others have been wounded in a terrorist attack that targeted three buses transporting workers from al-Taim oil field, state media said.
The agency did not provide any information on the nature of the attack in the Kurdish-held area or who may be behind it,
Israel's hawkish veteran Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as prime minister after a stint in opposition, heading what analysts call...Netanyahu, 73, who is fighting corruption charges in court, already served as premier longer than anyone in Israeli history, leading the country from 1996-1999 and 2009-2021
Netanyahu was ousted in June 2021 by a motley coalition of leftists, centrists and Arab parties headed by Naftali Bennett and former TV news anchor Yair Lapid.
Jerusalem-- Israel's newly sworn-in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has granted major concessions to far-right and ultra-Orthodox allies to cement a...Bezalel Smotrich, head of the extreme-right Religious Zionism formation, will oversee civilian affairs in the occupied West Bank.
Government recognition of illegal outposts established in the West Bank without government approval within 60 days.
DUBAI, UAE - A Dubai court Thursday authorized the extradition of a British national wanted over an alleged 1.7 billion...Hedge fund trader Sanjay Shah was arrested in Dubai in June, but the emirate's Court of Appeal in September rejected an extradition request by Denmark.
Shah is accused of running a scheme for three years from 2012 in which foreign firms pretended to own shares in Danish companies and claimed tax refunds.
Paris-born activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala was sentenced to life in jail without the possibility of parole in April on...Kavala was first charged with funding the wave of 2013 protests that some analysts view as the genesis of Erdogan's more authoritarian posture in the latter half of his two-decade
He was best known as a soft-spoken businessman who was spending part of his wealth to promote culture and projects aimed at reconciling Turkey and its arch-nemesis Armenia
Saied lashed out at unnamed critics, accusing such rivals of "drowning in corruption and treachery" and of "plotting against the...Just 11.2 percent of registered voters took part in the December 17 polls for a neutered parliament, which capped Saied's overhaul of the political system
Turnout - initially announced at just under nine percent - was the lowest since the 2011 revolution that overthrew dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
The move comes nearly seven months after President Kais Saied sacked 57 judges, accusing them of corruption and blocking enquiries...Defence lawyer Ayachi Hammami said the 13 were among 49 judges reinstated in Aug. But the justice ministry has been investigating his 13 clients for "terrorist crimes".
"This case is purely political," Hammami said. The accused judges are to appear before the Supreme Judicial Council (CSM) on January 24, he told AFP.
Khat, or qat, is a leaf which is packed into the cheek and slowly chewed, releasing chemicals similar to amphetamines...Saudi border authorities seized 29.2 tons of khat in the country's south, near the border with Yemen, as well as in the north, near Jordan.
More than 360 smugglers were arrested, most of them Yemeni but also some Ethiopians and Saudis, SPA said.
Kuwait City, Kuwait--Kuwait, one of the hottest countries on Earth, has been hit by a rare hail storm that delighted children...Pictures and videos of southern roads partially blanketed in hail and ice spread online to celebrate the rare weather event.
Kuwait's meteorological department said precipitation since Tuesday had reached up to 63 millimetres but that the weather was clearing up.
- The letter from Herzog - marking two years since Morocco normalized ties with Israel - was the first occasion an...
Herzog mentioned Jews settling in Morocco following their expulsion from Spain in late 15th century, before noting Morocco's protection of Jews during World War II
Rabat cut relations with Israel in 2000 following the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada but in December 2020, the two countries formalized ties
