- Finland took a step Thursday towards fast-track NATO membership, triggering a blunt warning from the Kremlin, as the war in...
Finland's leaders declared their nation must apply to join NATO "without delay" -- a seismic change in policy since Russia invaded its neighbour in February
"As a member of NATO, Finland would strengthen the entire defence alliance," President Sauli Niinisto and Prime Minister Sanna Marin said in a joint statement
- The IEA said "steadily rising" output from the United States and Middle Eastern members of the OPEC+ oil cartel will...
The IEA had previously warned that Moscow's invasion of Ukraine could spark a global supply "shock".
World oil demand growth, meanwhile, is forecast to slow to 1.9 million barrels per day in the second quarter.
- Arab countries at the United Nations called Wednesday for an independent, international probe into what they called the assassination of...
The demand for an independent international probe was contained in three identical letters send to the UN Secretary General
The Qatar-based TV channel charged that Israeli forces deliberately and "in cold blood" shot Abu Akleh, 51, in the head
- The official unemployment rate in crisis-hit Lebanon jumped almost three-fold to reach 29.6 percent at the start of the year,...
After years of corrupt practices and financial mismanagement, Lebanon's economy collapsed two years ago, stripping the national currency of 95 percent of its value.
The issue of unemployment has not featured prominently in the campaigns led by the main parties fielding candidates in Sunday's parliamentary election.
- In a sign of Abu Akleh's stature among Palestinians, she received what was described as a full state memorial at...
The EU has urged an "independent" probe while the United States demanded the killing be "transparently investigated", calls echoed by UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet.
An initial autopsy and forensic examination were conducted in Nablus in the Israel-occupied West Bank hours after her death, but no final conclusions have been disclosed.
- Qatar's ruler met Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran Thursday, state television reported, as talks falter on bringing Washington back...
Washington unilaterally abandoned the nuclear deal under then-president Donald Trump in 2018 and reimposed sweeping economic sanctions
Unlike some of its Gulf Arab neighbours, Qatar has maintained close relations with Iran and the two countries share the world's largest natural gas
- With the lira's value tumbles to historic lows and annual inflation runs at nearly 70 percent, the refugee question regularly...
Political parties in Turkey spar over sending 3.7 million Syrian refugees back to their war-torn homeland while the refugees have no appetite to return
Majority of the Syrian refugees have settled in Turkish society since 2012, and only 1 percent live in the shelter camps built for those who escaped civil war
- Once a country has decided to apply for NATO membership, the 30 members of the alliance must agree unanimously to...
Boris Johnson Wednesday signed a Political Declaration of Solidarity, including military means with Finland and Sweden
NATO's 30 member states would ratify the decision of granting membership to Finland and Sweden for the Western military alliance
- A meeting of the Oman-India Joint Business Council, under the umbrella of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and...
A meeting of the Oman-India Joint Business Council, under the umbrella of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Oman Chamber will be held Friday
At this meeting, ministers from both sides will interact with the business communities, the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry said
- The move helps draw a line under a major diplomatic standoff on the back of coronavirus restrictions that together closed...
The borders closed last year when Spain allowed the leader of a Western Saharan independence movement to be treated in a Spanish hospital
Around 10,000 migrants crossed the Moroccan border into Ceuta as border forces looked the other way, in an apparent punitive gesture by Rabat





















