Algeria's northeast was particularly hard-hit since Wednesday in blazes exacerbated by climate change but the fire service said most of the fires there had been put out.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for wealthier countries to help developing nations purchase Ukrainian grain as supplies begin returning to global markets,. Ships carrying grain have been leaving there under a recent UN-brokered agreement, and Guterres said Odesa was a symbol of what countries can achieve when they work...

Russian fertilizers and agricultural products must be able to reach world markets "unimpeded" or a global food crisis could strike as early as next year, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Saturday. "It is important that all governments and the private sector cooperate to bring them to market," he said...

The Israeli military announced earlier in the day that it had conducted overnight raids of seven organizations in Ramallah, the West Bank city where the Palestinian Authority's headquarters are located. Six of the Palestinian organizations were labeled last October as terrorist organizations by Israel for their alleged links to the...

A flare-up in fighting around Europe's largest nuclear facility in Russian-controlled southern Ukraine has sparked urgent warnings from world leaders, and UN chief Antonio Guterres cautioned during talks with Erdogan that any damage to the plant would be akin to "suicide". "We are worried. We don't want another Chernobyl," Erdogan...

The Turkish leader met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Lviv just two weeks after flying to Sochi for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin during which the two sides pledged to boost economic cooperation.

The military said soldiers and police officers "closed seven institutions and confiscated property" in the overnight raids.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that Antonio Guterres will discuss ‘the need for a political solution to this conflict’ in his meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

The UN brokered agreement lifted a Russian blockade of Ukraine's ports and established safe corridors through the naval mines laid by Kyiv.

Nasser Al-Hein has enjoyed a prolific diplomatic career, having represented his country in a slew of international  events over the years.

Witnesses to the fire Sunday morning described people rushing into the multi-storey house of worship to save those trapped, but the rescuers were soon overwhelmed by heat and deadly smoke.

The incident was the latest involving local banks and angry depositors unable to access savings that have been locked in Lebanese banks since the country's economic crisis began in 2019.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of "nuclear blackmail" as he urged the international community to react immediately to chase out the occupiers from Zaporizhzhia. "Only the Russians' full withdrawal... would guarantee nuclear safety for all of Europe," Zelensky said in a video address to the nation.

Tim Lenderking will travel to the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Saudi Arabia starting August 11, while members of his team travel to Jordan, hoping to secure an expansion of the UN-mediated truce between Yemen's warring parties. The efforts aim to "pave the way for a permanent ceasefire and an inclusive,...

Of the 360 Palestinians reported injured, nearly two-thirds were civilians, including 151 children, 58 women and 19 older people, OHCHR said.

Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares was at Madrid's Torrejon de Ardoz airbase to meet them when the flight from Islamabad landed at Madrid's Torrejon de Ardoz airbase at around 10:15 pm (2015 GMT). The government would now work "to help these people to integrate, given that it will be difficult...

The Sierra Leone-flagged vessel Razoni left the Ukrainian port of Odessa on August 1 carrying 26,000 tons of maize.

Last year, this week, the Taliban launched a final offensive to win back control of the country they ran between 1996 and 2001.

The mustachioed 50-year-old with almost half a million Facebook followers posts weekly videos on topics such as protecting fruit trees, dealing with insects and helping people get more from their farms and gardens.

Diplomats at the UN Security Council have expressed concern at the situation in Gaza despite the tenuous truce between Islamic Jihad and Israel after three days of deadly fighting. Russian ambassador stressed the council is "deeply concern by this turn of events, which could lead to the resumption of a...

Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, who seized power in the Central African nation after his father was killed battling rebels last year, is in Qatar to formally agree an accord to launch a national peace dialogue in Ndjamena on August 20.

The Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni was cleared for passage through the Bosphorus Strait by a team that included Russian and Ukrainian inspectors on Wednesday, and a Ukraine embassy spokesperson had later said it was expected to dock in Lebanon's port of Tripoli at 10 am (0700 GMT) on Sunday.

Tugluk was arrested for her activities with the Democratic Society Congress , an organization considered by the Turkish authorities to be linked to a "terrorist" organization by Ankara and its Western allies.

Gaza's sole power plant shut down on Saturday after running out of fuel, an electricity company spokesman said, five days after Israel closed its goods crossing with the Palestinian enclave. Diesel for the plant is usually trucked in from Egypt or Israel, which has maintained a blockade since Hamas took...

It is totally unacceptable for states in possession of nuclear weapons to admit the possibility of a nuclear war, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said early on Saturday in Japan at a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

The Laodicea, which was docked in the northern port of Tripoli, was cleared to leave after investigations failed to prove it carried stolen goods, officials said. It set sail at 8:00 am (0500 GMT), according to Lebanese state media, and was later reported by authorities in Damascus to have arrived...

The heads of UAE and Egypt's anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing and the UN's representative for drugs and crime in the region discussed about the two countries efforts in cooperating with each other to deal with such crimes.

The portside blast of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrate, one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever, killed more than 200 people, wounded thousands more and decimated vast areas of the capital.

Yemen has been gripped by conflict since the Iran-backed Houthi rebels took control of the capital Sanaa in 2014, triggering a Saudi-led military intervention in support of the beleaguered government the following year. But a truce came into effect on April 2 and was renewed from June 4, providing a...

The special rapporteurs insisted such harassment must stop, and said residents of Masafer Yatta continue to be threatened by the risk of forcible transfer, including mass forced evictions and arbitrary displacement. Israeli authorities' hubris is proving without limits, the four experts said.

UN head Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the world faced "a nuclear danger not seen since the height of the Cold War" . In January, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- the United States, China, Russia, Britain and France -- had pledged to prevent the further...

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Sunday upped pressure on the United Nations to disband a commission investigating Israel, appealing to the secretary-general over "anti-Semitic" remarks from a member of the body.

A spokesman for the Turkish presidency said there was a "high probability" that a first ship carrying Ukrainian grain could leave Ukraine's port of Odessa on Monday. That is despite Russian missiles hitting the city in the wake of the July 22 agreement on shipping grain between Russia, Turkey, the...

Standing behind her control tower with headphones around her neck, Saudi DJ Leen Naif segues smoothly between pop hits and club tracks for a crowd of business school graduates noshing on sushi.

At least 80 people have been killed and 30 others are missing in floods that have wreaked havoc across Iran for more than a week, state media reported Saturday. Tehran province is the hardest-hit with 35 deaths, and the nearby Mazandaran province having the highest number of missing people at...

Lebanon's parliament approved on Tuesday a $150 million World Bank loan to import wheat, as shortages of subsidized bread intensify in the cash-strapped country, local media reported. Long lines have formed in front of bakeries and supermarkets where people wait hours for a bag of subsidized Arabic bread -- in...

Moroccan authorities on Monday retrieved the bodies of eight migrants off the southern shores of the North African kingdom, local officials said.

An Egyptian court called Sunday for a legal amendment to allow the live broadcast of the execution of the killer of a female student, as a deterrent to frequent homicides.

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said 38 percent of women in Gaza faced physical or psychological violence from their husbands in 2019, but Alwakil estimated the true figure to be far higher.

The UAE has welcomed the agreement reached between Russia and Ukraine on the export of grain, and has applauded the role of Turkey and the United Nations in helping the two countries to sign the Black Sea Grain Export deal.

Wheat prices tumbled Friday, retreating to levels last seen prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine following a landmark agreement to unblock Ukraine's Black Sea grain exports. Wheat and other grain have been blocked in Ukrainian ports by Russian warships and landmines Kyiv has laid to avert a feared amphibious...

Moroccan authorities have said 23 migrants died when some 2,000 people, many from Sudan, stormed the frontier.

The European Union will discuss tightening sanctions against Russia on Monday, as Moscow is accused of using the continent's largest nuclear power plant to store weapons and launch missiles on the surrounding regions of southern Ukraine.

A host of Chadian rebel and political groups on Saturday withdrew from talks with the African nation's military government, accusing it of seeking to destabilize peace efforts.

The UAE delegation to the 2022 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York, presented the second edition of the UAE’s National Voluntary Review Report.

Jordan's Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Nasser Shraideh held a series of meetings at the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development meet in New York.

Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday made substantive progress in their first direct talks since March on a deal to relieve a global food crisis caused by blocked Black Sea grain exports. The high-stakes meeting involving UN and Turkish officials in Istanbul broke up after slightly more than three hours with...

The UN Security Council has agreed to extend a vital system for cross-border aid to war-ravaged Syria by six months, the length of time wanted by Russia, diplomats told AFP Monday. 

The world's population is expected to hit eight billion on November 15, the UN forecast Monday in a report that said India will surpass China as the most populous country on earth in 2023. That overall population milestone "is a reminder of our shared responsibility to care for our planet and...

Overall, 50,000 species are used for food, energy, medicine, material and other purposes around the world, with more than 10,000 different types harvested for human consumption.