- Earlier on Monday, Jordanian-Saudi ministerial meetings were held to discuss bilateral cooperation in various fields.
Earlier on Monday, Jordanian-Saudi ministerial meetings were held to discuss bilateral cooperation in various fields
The two sides also reaffirmed their joint keenness to leverage available and joint opportunities in various fields
- A record of nearly 70 tons of the drug was intercepted in 2021, up 74 percent from a year before,...
The cocaine is usually hidden in containers, or sometimes underneath ships in openings below the water line where they are then recovered by divers.
Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb has deplored the fact that the port city is "drowning in cocaine", and condemns the violence that accompanies the drug trade.
- Beijing, China—China has filed a dispute with the World Trade Organization over US restrictions on chip exports, Beijing's commerce ministry said...
The United States in October announced new export controls aimed at restricting China's ability to buy and manufacture high-end chips with military applications
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden pledged to repair frayed relations at a summit in Bali, Indonesia last month
- The judge presiding over the hearing in a US District Court in Washington read the 71-year-old Masud the charges and...
Masud, who allegedly worked as an intelligence operative for the regime of Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, faces three counts related to the bombing
Federal prosecutors said they did not intend to seek the death penalty but Masud could face life in prison if convicted
- Paris, France—Iran on Monday executed a second man convicted over the protests that have shaken the regime for almost three...
The latest execution came with global outrage still reverberating after Iran on Thursday carried out the first execution linked to the protests
Iran's use of the death penalty is part of a crackdown that Olso-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) says has seen the security forces kill at least 458 people
- Hundreds of thousands have died since, either as a result of fighting or indirectly through unsafe drinking water, disease outbreaks,...
About 2.2 million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished, one quarter of them aged under five, and most are at extreme risk from cholera, measles and other diseases
Yemen's war broke out in 2014 and quickly saw Iran-backed Houthi rebels seize the capital Sanaa, prompting Saudi-led forces to intervene to prop up the government
- Erdogan told Putin in a phone call on Sunday that is was "important to clear the (Kurdish fighters) from the...
President Erdogan has been threatening to launch a new military incursion into northern Syria to push out Kurdish forces.
Both Moscow and Washington have been putting diplomatic pressure on Ankara not to launch a new ground campaign.
- “It is critical that as we scale up the use of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) we make sure we do not...
Nature-based solutions aim to protect, restore, and sustainably manage waters and marine ecosystems.
New Green Jobs for Youth Pact, launched by ILO and UNEP at COP27, aims to create one million new green jobs.
- The UN meeting, called COP15, running from December 7 - 19, bringing together nearly 5,000 delegates from 193 countries to...
Implementation mechanisms are at the heart of the Paris agreement on the fight against global warming, in the form of "nationally determined contributions"
The current text on biodiversity only "urges" countries to take into account the conclusions of a global review in four years' time
- A month after Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden agreed to repair frayed relations, the US is...
Biden left his meeting with Xi proclaiming that there need not be a new Cold War, while Xi told Biden the two countries "share more, not less, common interests"
The United States and China are the two largest economies in the world, spend more than any other nations on their militaries and are locked in fierce strategic competition





















