UNRWA said that shortages in the Palestinian territory had caused food prices to increase by 40 times, while the aid...
Washington, UAE -- Global gas flaring surged for a second year in a row, wasting about $63 billion in lost...
Economists expect Germany and another major eurozone economy, Italy, to fall into recession. Britain's economy is already shrinking. Rating agency...Many countries are now grappling with cost-of-living crises because wages are not keeping up with inflation
Consumer prices in the Group of 20 developed and emerging nations are expected to reach eight percent in the fourth quarter
Turkey, too, has appointed an ambassador to Israel. A presidential decree in November named Sakir Ozkan Torunlar to the post,...Bilateral relations between Israel and Turkey began to fray in 2008 following an Israeli military operation in Gaza
Despite past tensions between the two, Erdogan last month congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu on his victory in the general election
The "riots", as Tehran generally refers to them, were triggered by the September 16 death in custody of Iranian-Kurdish Amini,...Iranian officials say hundreds of people have been killed, including members of the security forces, and thousands have been arrested nationwide
Iran has accused hostile foreign powers, including the United States and some European countries, of stoking the unrest
The price ceiling of $60 per barrel agreed by the European Union, G7 and Australia came into force in early...It added that the ban may be lifted in individual cases on the basis of "special decision" from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia has said the cap will not affect its military campaign in Ukraine and expressed confidence it would find new buyers.
Jerusalem, Undefined - Israel's parliament on Tuesday passed controversial legislation paving the way for the return of veteran hawk Benjamin Netanyahu...Netanyahu will present what analysts have said will be the most right-wing government in Israel's history to parliament on Thursday.
lawmakers passed legislation that now allows anyone convicted of offences but not given a custodial sentence to serve as a minister.
- "No country can develop -- indeed survive -- socially and economically with half its population excluded," Volker Turk, the United...
"No country can develop -- indeed survive -- socially and economically with half its population excluded," Volker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said.
"The ban will significantly impair, if not destroy" these NGOs' capacity to deliver essential services, Turk said, calling it all the more distressing with Afghanistan in the grip.
- Tripoli, Libya--Libya's unity government has carried out a prisoner exchange with rival eastern forces, releasing a pilot captured during strongman Khalifa...
Pilot Amer al-Orfi al-Gajam was exchanged for 15 prisoners held by Haftar's forces, which back a rival government and control much of eastern and southern Libya
In 2019, Haftar seized large parts of the south and launched an assault on Tripoli
Iranian football legend Ali Daei, who has supported protests in the wake of Mahsa Amini's death, said that an airplane from...Daei said his wife and daughter had flown on a Mahan Air flight, taking off from the capital Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport, headed to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates
He used social media to call on the government to "solve the problems of the Iranian people rather than using repression, violence and arrests"
BEIRUT, LEBANON - Six Syrian fighters from a pro-Turkish group died in clashes with regime troops that still raged Monday in...A pro-Turkey rebel statement said the six were killed and three more wounded in the offensive launched by government forces.
The dead were fighters from Faylaq al-Sham, an alliance of rebel groups considered close to the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Kuleba said the question of Russia's veto-wielding permanent seat in the UN Security Council -- also held by the United...Security Council consists of 15 members tasked with tackling global crises by enacting sanctions, authorizing military action, and approving changes to the UN charter
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Western powers have pored through UN procedural rules to ensure Russia not block Security Council meetings
