A Lebanese judicial delegation will meet French authorities in Paris next week to discuss investigations into Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh, a judicial source said on Thursday. Salameh is among the top Lebanese officials widely blamed for the country's unprecedented financial crisis that the World Bank says is of...

The crowded hospital in Darkush in Syria's rebel-held northwest treats around 30,000 patients every month, for free -- but now foreign aid cuts are threatening its future. Already dwindling funds have caused dire shortages of medicine and equipment in this and other clinics in the Idlib region, the last Syrian...

President Joe Biden is still bullish on being able to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) affirmed that it would work together with all Multilateral Development Banks, International Finance Institutes, and other development partners towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for its member countries. This came during IsDB President Muhammad Al Jasser’s participation in a panel discussion on “A Shared Sustainable...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated three Hezbollah-linked financial facilitators and their Lebanon-based travel company. Specifically, OFAC designated Adel Diab, Ali Mohamad Daoun, Jihad Salem Alame, and their company, Dar Al Salam for Travel & Tourism. This action comes at a time in...

The past seven years have been the hottest on record, the United Nations confirmed Wednesday, adding that 2021 temperatures remained high despite the cooling effect of the La Nina weather phenomenon. "The warmest seven years have all been since 2015," the UN's World Meteorological Organization said in a statement. And...

UAE consumers show a growing interest in natural foods, backed by the understanding that natural produce is the healthier choice, a survey has said. Nearly 60 percent of the participants agreed that the naturalness of the product influences their grocery choices, the highest of all markets, according to the survey...

Israeli police demolished the home of a Palestinian family and arrested at least 18 people as they carried out a controversial eviction order in the sensitive east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah early Wednesday. The looming eviction of other families from Sheikh Jarrah in May last year fueled an 11-day...

Turkey's Erdogan said he was resurrecting talks with Israel on an old idea to bring Mediterranean gas to European clients via Turkey.

Several countries — ranging from regional ones like Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, and Egypt, to Russia and the US — have come together to condemn the attacks. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has even said his country would “work with the UAE and international partners to hold [the Houthis]...

The 2022 Zayed Sustainability Prize has been awarded to 10 winners who have contributed towards achieving sustainable development in their communities. The award ceremony coincided with the start of the 2022 Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) on Monday. Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who gave away the...

Eleven people were killed in air strikes on Yemen's rebel-held capital, a witness and medical sources told AFP on Tuesday, as the Saudi-led coalition hit back after a deadly attack on Abu Dhabi.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will host his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in Moscow on Wednesday, the Kremlin said, amid talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal. The meeting will be Raisi's most important official visit abroad since he took office, and the first visit by an Iranian president to Russia since...

The Russian Federation Parliament (State Duma) has strongly condemned the Houthi militia attack targeting civil facilities in the UAE yesterday.

BCCI chief reviewed ways to further increase the volume of bilateral trade

The United Arab Emirates of which Abu Dhabi is the capital is part of a Riyadh-led military coalition that supports Yemen's government against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have repeatedly targeted Saudi Arabia with cross-border strikes.

The UNHCR announced the partnership with Qatari athlete Sheikha Asma Al-Thani in a statement on its official website.

The Lebanon Presidency Press Office denied the information broadcasted by Al-Jadeed TV on Sunday evening, which claimed that the President General Michel Aoun, “gave permission” to raid a number of banks in the context of investigations of bank lawsuits. "The Press Office asserts that this news is fabricated and baseless,"...

The UAE and the UN have committed to further enhance collective international action to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Iranian diplomats are in Saudi Arabia to start work at a global organization representing Muslims, a first since the two rivals cut ties in 2016, Iran's foreign ministry announced on Monday. "The delegation is now in Jeddah to start its work at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation," Saeed Khatibzadeh said...

Baghdad has repatriated almost 4,000 of its citizens stuck on the Belarus borders with European Union members Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in recent weeks, Iraq's foreign minister said Sunday. Since November 18, the Iraqi government has organized "10 flights from Baghdad to Belarus" to repatriate its citizens, Fuad Hussein told...

During the visit, the secretary-general of the GCC will meet a number of senior officials of the European Union.

South Korea's soft power matches its economic achievements, President Moon Jae-in said on Sunday at the start of a Middle East tour expected to focus on business and trade opportunities.

The UAE and Algeria will work to further strengthen ties between the two countries, and both have shown appreciation for each other's eagerness to boost ties.

Sudan has revoked the license of Al Jazeera Mubasher, part of the Qatar-based network, accusing it of "unprofessional" TV coverage of anti-coup protests, the channel said Sunday. "The Sudanese authorities announce they revoked the accreditation of Al Jazeera Mubasher and barred its team from working in Sudan," tweeted the news...

Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett took to Twitter on Sunday, January 16, to say he was “relieved and thankful” that the hostage situation at a synagogue in the state of Texas in the US had been resolved without any harm to those held at gunpoint.

The Henley Passport Index ranks 199 passports, based on how many countries and territories their holders can travel to without needing a visa.

The account, @KhameneiSite, this week posted an animated video showing an unmanned aircraft targeting former US president Donald Trump, who ordered a drone strike in Baghdad two years ago that killed top Iranian commander General Qassem Soleimani.

The mother, 61, and her son, 39, were arrested on December 8 under a warrant issued by the Chinese authorities for alleged investment fraud in China between March 1, 2013 and March 31, 2014. The pair are due in court in the resort town of Paphos for the resumption of...

Qasemi, who headed a high-ranking delegation to Syria, met with senior officials from Syria.

An explosion from a hand grenade hit the headquarters of Iraqi parliament speaker Mohammed Halbousi’s Taqaddum party in Baghdad early on Friday wounding two guards, police sources said.

More than fifty years after establishing diplomatic ties, China and Iran accelerate implementation of the Iran-China 25-year cooperation program, which can pave the ground for expanding all-out ties. The Chinese and Iranian foreign ministers met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

David Satterfield and Assistant Secretary of State Molly Phee will travel to Riyadh, Khartoum, and Addis Ababa from January 17 to January 20.

The Saudi-led military coalition backing Yemen's internationally-backed government against the rebels said the Rwabee was returning from a mission to set up a field hospital.

As the country marks 11 years since the late dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled into exile, police deployed heavily in central Tunis to counter anti-Saied rallies calling for an end to his "coup". The protesters had gathered despite restrictions on gatherings imposed on Thursday as coronavirus cases surge...

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Friday that a renewed deal with Iran on curtailing its nuclear program remained "possible" as talks in Vienna advance in a "better atmosphere". "We're arriving at the end of a long process... there's a better atmosphere since Christmas -- before Christmas I was...

A fire at a gas liquefaction unit in Kuwait's largest refinery Friday left 10 people injured before it was put out, the plant's operator said. The blaze "erupted during maintenance work" on the unit at Mina al-Ahmadi refinery, 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of Kuwait City, state-owned Kuwait National Petroleum...

The UAE and Brazil have reiterated their resolve to boost bilateral relations in the light of the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Staffan de Mistura, a former UN envoy to Syria, met the North African kingdom's top diplomat Nasser Bourita in Rabat, the foreign ministry said.

Talks to restore the 2015 accord between Tehran and world powers -- United States, France, Britain, Russia, China, and Germany -- began last year but stopped in June as Iran elected ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi. The talks resumed in November but have made only chequered progress so far.

GCC Secretary-General Naif Falah Al-Hajraf and Chinese State Advisor and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wang Yi, also agreed on a free trade agreement.

On 12th October 2021, the European Commission issued its first-ever NextGenerationEU green bond

Hundreds of teachers on Thursday rallied in several Iranian cities to denounce the slow implementation of salary and pension reforms, state media reported. In Gilan province on the Caspian Sea coast, around 150 teachers marched in the city of Rasht, while another 70 did so in Lahijan, the state broadcaster...

Tunisia's  Ennahdha party has reiterated calls for demonstrations on Friday marking the anniversary of the country's revolution, defying tightened coronavirus restrictions it says are politically motivated. Ennahdha is the biggest party in a parliament that was suspended by President Kais Saied in July 2021, and has staged a string of...

Anwar Raslan, 58, was found guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people at the Al-Khatib detention center in Damascus, also known as "Branch 251", in 2011 and 2012. He sought refuge in Germany after deserting the Syrian regime in 2012.

The Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA) has stressed on the significance of the Palestinian cause and flayed the attempts of some agencies to block the information related to the issue. FANA approved a memo on dealing with global platforms on the conclusion of its 48th General Assembly on Wednesday,...

Jordan is the second-most water scarce country in the world, according to Unicef.

The tracks have been abandoned to birds and stray dogs at the last Turkish train stop before the Armenian border, shuttered for three decades by a history of bloody feuds. But a rare ray of hope is shining across the snow-capped mountains towering over Turkey's northeastern edge.

The biggest constraint right is funding to help some 16 million people, a top UN humanitarian official told the UNSC.

Bedouin, who are part of Israel's 20 percent Arab minority, have long opposed tree-planting initiatives in the Negev, blasting them as a de facto government land grab in areas they call home.  Sixteen people were arrested earlier Wednesday and five officers were lightly wounded in clashes.