- Tehran, Iran - "Troubles" erupted between inmates and guards at Tehran's Evin prison and a fire broke out but the situation...
"Troubles and clashes took place on Saturday night" in the prison and "rioters" started a fire, local news agency said
At least eight people were injured, but "the situation is currently completely under control," said the security source.
- The British government said the Free Trade Agreement is a major economic opportunity and plays a key role in the...
The two sides discussed Free Trade Agreement's goals and the exchange of technical information in 29 areas.
More than 100 British negotiators representing different sides of the British government participated in the round.
- Dubai, UAE—Dubai Police has recorded a 65 percent drop in the number of criminal reports during the third quarter of...
The statistics were revealed during the quarterly appraisal meeting of the General Department of Criminal Investigations (CID)
Lt. Gen. Al Marri, head of Dubai Police, commended the efforts made by the dedicated officers and employees of the CID to apprehend the perpetrators of crimes
- Demanding his resignation, tens of thousand of demonstrators in Tunis denounced a power grab by President Kais Saied, chanting "Down,...
Ali Laarayedh, Tunisia's former prime minister and a senior Ennahdha official, told AFP that the protest was an expression of "anger at the state of affairs under Kais Saied"
In public remarks, Saied has argued he was working to "correct" economic troubles he had inherited from Tunisia's post-Ben Ali leadership
- An oil depot in Russia's Belgorod region bordering Ukraine is on fire after being shelled, the governor said, as strikes...
One of the shells hit the oil depot in the Belgorod region, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
State-run news agency TASS cited a source in the emergency services saying the burning depot was located in the village of Razumnoye-71
- UAE Minister of Climate Change and the Environment Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri said that the crises facing the world today...
The UAE has launched the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate) in partnership with the US.
The objective is to raise investments worth US$8 billion in sustainable and climate-smart agrifood systems based on modern technologies.
- Iraqi firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr's movement announced its refusal to join a new government being formed by prime minister-designate Mohammad Shia...
The announcement of not joining the government came two days after lawmakers elected Abdul Latif Rashid as Iraq's new president.
Snap elections were held last year in Iraq following nationwide protests that erupted in October 2019.
- Iran has rejected allegations that it has supplied Russia with weapons "to be used in the war in Ukraine", its...
Kyiv and many of its Western allies have accused Moscow of using Iranian-made drones in attacks on Ukraine in recent weeks.
On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Iranian drones were used in Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
- Tripoli, Libya—The United Nations' new Libya envoy, Abdoulaye Bathily, took up post in Tripoli Friday, vowing to work towards elections in...
The envoy's inauguration comes months into a power struggle between two rival governments in the latest constellation of Libya's complex conflict
Prime minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah, a tycoon who took office in 2021 as part of a UN-led peace process that followed the last major fighting, is based in Tripoli
- Tunis, Tunisia— Tunisian mourners clashed with security forces on Friday after the death of a young man from injuries sustained during...
Protestors threw rocks at security forces after Malek Sellimi's funeral in the working-class neighborhood of Upper Omran on the edges of Tunis
The Tunisian Human Rights League says 14 young men have been killed in recent years in incidents involving the police, adding that officials rarely face justice





















