- 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
- The United States said there had been an "alarming increase in Palestinian and Israeli deaths and injuries, including numerous children"....
Some 66 people were injured around the city of Nablus, also in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent said
Dozens of Palestinians have been shot dead in recent months during near daily Israeli raids across the West Bank
- Russian oil giant Rosneft has filed a complaint against the German government for taking control of its German-based refineries, a...
Berlin in September took control of Rosneft's German subsidiaries, which account for about 12 percent of oil refining capacity in the country.
Germany said the dramatic move last month was necessary to counter "a threat to the security of energy supply", as relations with Russia deteriorate.
- Most Turkish newspapers and television channels fell under the control of government officials and their business allies during a sweeping...
The new rules cement the government's already-firm grip on the media eight months before a general election
The legislation comprised of 40 amendments that each required a separate vote was proposed by Erdogan's Islamic-rooted AKP party





















