According to lawyers and medics, rocket fire on residential areas of one of Darfur's main cities and shelling near hospitals in North Kordofan state killed at least 20 civilians. The doctors' union said that shells had struck near four hospitals killing four civilians. In the South Darfur rocket fired killed...

The Egyptian Bar Association has called off a days-long strike held in protest against the jailing of six colleagues, according a statement released by the bar association. Last Thursday the association had announced an open-ended strike to denounce their colleagues' sentencing to two years in jail over a court brawl...

DUBAI, UAE - A Dubai court Thursday authorized the extradition of a British national wanted over an alleged 1.7 billion euro tax fraud in Denmark, the suspect's defense team said, ahead of a further ruling by a higher court. Hedge fund trader Sanjay Shah was arrested in Dubai in June,...

TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran has arrested the lawyer of two female journalists jailed after covering the death in custody of a young woman that sparked three months of protests, a newspaper said Saturday. The Islamic republic has been rocked by protests since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin,...

The SEC also charged Musk with fraud and ordered him to step down as chair of Tesla's board of directors, pay a $20 million fine and, after another controversial tweet in early 2019, demanded his tweets directly related to business of the company be vetted by a lawyer before posting.

Entrepreneurs, lawyers and art dealers are among those flocking to the financial hub in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, which had refused to join a UN Security Council vote condemning Russia's war.

Radwa Helmi made history on Saturday as the first woman judge to sit on the bench of Egypt's State Council, a top court in the Arab country. Egypt has hundreds of women lawyers but it took decades for one to move up the judicial ladder and become a judge.

The marriage of minors is rising in Iraq, with a government survey reports that for females under 18 it jumped to 25.5 percent last year, up from 21.7 percent in 2011.

The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts said on Monday that all its internal processes and customer-facing services were now operating fully digital. Following the launch of the Dubai Paperless Strategy in 2018, the DIFC Courts accelerated the integration of all services into its extensive digital infrastructure, DIFC said in...