- A statement said the House of Representatives had approved "all the nominations set forth in a letter from President Abdel...
Sisi's official Facebook page said the president had urged parliament to discuss the changes in the more than 30-strong cabinet
The reshuffle does not include the key defense, interior, finance or foreign ministries
- Iraq has been ravaged by decades of conflict and endemic corruption. It is blighted by ailing infrastructure, power cuts and...
Political deadlock has left Iraq without a new government, president or prime minister following general elections 10 months ago
Coordination Framework says it wants a new government as quickly as possible, and its supporters on Friday began their own sit-in to press for that demand
- Last weekend Bill Richardson, a former US ambassador to the UN who has negotiated the release of several Americans held...
31-year-old Brittney Griner was in Russia to play for a basketball team during her off-season, when she was charged with smuggling narcotics
Viktor Bout was arrested in Thailand in 2008 and extradited to US, where in 2012 he was sentenced to 25 years prison on charges of arming rebels
- Kyiv and Moscow accused each other on Saturday of striking the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine, which has been...
The plant Zaporizhzhia is under Russian control since March, with Ukraine accusing Moscow of basing hundreds of soldiers and storing arms there.
Kyiv and Moscow have traded several accusations over multiple rounds of shelling on the plant this month, raising fears of a nuclear catastrophe
- A Jordanian-Moroccan hospitality and tourism training project will be launched in the Hashemite Kingdom as part of the strategic partnership...
The Moroccan ambassador stressed on Jordan's pivotal role in joint Arab efforts and regional issues.
The envoy stressed on the partnerships between Jordan and Morocco in tourism, agriculture, renewable energy
- An emergency session of parliament on Saturday approved several cabinet changes in Egypt's first major reshuffle since 2019, with 13...
An emergency session of parliament on Saturday approved several cabinet changes in Egypt's first major reshuffle since 2019
The reshuffle does not include the key defense, interior, finance or foreign ministries. Following parliamentary approval, the new ministers are now expected to be sworn in.
- Amid reports of Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Saudi Arabia next week, U.S. President Joe Biden's administration said the...
There has been speculation about the US's diminishing influence in the region as China and Saudi Arabia seek to strengthen their ties
Xi Jinping could potentially meet with President Biden in November during his trip to Southeast Asia, as he said to his American counterpart
- A new trade plan will be unveiled within days, while US forces will transit the Taiwan Strait in the next...
Taiwan has accused China of using the visit by Pelosi as an excuse to kickstart drills that Taipei called that Taipei called a rehearsal for invasion
In response to China's drills, the United States is reasserting its involvement in the area, while reiterating its policy of "strategic ambiguity."
- The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the attack, adding that the two people, whom it did not identify,...
Two civilians were wounded when a tank belonging to the Israeli occupation forces fired two shells near the village of Hamidiya
Israel seized 1,200 square kilometers (460 square miles) of the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War





















