Reem bint Ebrahim Al Hashimy, UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation, has been honoured with the Marisa Bellisario Award, one of Italy's most prestigious distinctions for outstanding women leaders, at the 38th edition of the ceremony in Rome.
Andy Burnham, Britain's prime minister-in-waiting, vowed on Monday to deliver radical change to the nation's politics by handing more power to its regions and encouraging collaboration over argument in a 10-year mission to spur "good" growth.
An ex-political prisoner from Belarus on Monday raised doubts about easing sanctions on the Eastern European country in return for releasing political prisoners as long as repression — and new arrests — continue.
Turkey expects next month's NATO summit in Ankara to emphasise alliance unity, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday, calling for the lifting of restrictions on defence trade and for Ankara's involvement in initiatives to bolster European security.
The United States said a high-level meeting on Iran would be held in Doha on Tuesday with President Donald Trump's top envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner attending while technical talks would also continue on the sidelines.
The number of Iranian cyberattacks against Israel has shot up since the launch of the U.S.-Israeli offensive against Iran this year, a senior Israeli security official was quoted as saying on Monday.
Yasser al-Misehal stepped down as president of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation late Sunday, taking personal responsibility for the Green Falcons' dismal exit from the 2026 World Cup at the group stage.
Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a key ally of Hezbollah, on Monday slammed a U.S.-brokered agreement between Lebanon and Israel, warning it could lead to attempts to divide Lebanese and said it would not be implemented.
Several thousand people gathered Sunday in Diyarbakir, Turkey's largest Kurdish-majority city, to demand the release of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has been held in solitary confinement on the prison island of Imrali since 1999.
The Israeli military has destroyed underground infrastructure used by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in a village in southern Lebanon, according to a joint statement by the Israeli prime minister and defense minister on Sunday.
Iran and the United States agreed to halt recent hostilities in the Gulf and renew talks regarding their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said on Sunday, raising hopes of saving an interim peace deal that was under pressure from days of tit-for-tat strikes.
The framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, reached under the stewardship of President Joseph Aoun in close coordination with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, is not merely another diplomatic development to be debated, parsed and ultimately shelved.
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