Mena Today

Morocco's royal palace on Tuesday declared October 31 starting next year as a national holiday marking the adoption of a U.N. Security Council resolution backing the North African country's autonomy plan for Western Sahara.

Iran has released two French nationals imprisoned there for more than three years, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, in apparent exchange for an Iranian student who was conditionally freed in October.

In a strongly worded message, Dr. Rafiq Halabi, a prominent Druze leader from Israel, is calling on New York voters to oppose the candidacy of Zohran Mamdani, whom he describes as a dangerous threat to the Jewish people and the State of Israel.

Sudan’s pro-army government has called on the international community to take urgent and concrete action against the United Arab Emirates, which it accuses of supplying weapons and fighters to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group locked in a devastating civil war with the national army since April 2023.

At a clinic in Sudan's North Darfur where dozens of bony children lie on cots and men with bandaged wounds await surgery, patients described a desperate escape from the city of al-Fashir as it was captured last week by a paramilitary force. 

Guinea's junta leader Mamady Doumbouya put his name forward on Monday to stand in presidential elections on December 28, a move that could keep him in power for another five years.

Bahrain Bourse (BHB) has approved Arqaam Securities L.L.C. as an External Market Maker, a move aimed at boosting market liquidity and enhancing the Kingdom’s capital market ecosystem. 

Syrians no longer have grounds for asylum in Germany now the civil war in their country is over, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, as his conservatives seek to fend off a surging far-right ahead of a slew of state elections next year.

As polls close on this pivotal Election Day, New Yorkers face a stark choice: preserve the world's greatest city as a beacon of freedom and diversity, or hand the keys to Zohran Mamdani, a radical Democratic Socialist whose unapologetic hostility toward Israel veers perilously close to outright endorsement of the terrorist group Hamas.

U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City on Monday and threatened to hold back federal funds to the city if Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the mayoral election on Tuesday.

Cyprus wants to create a regional organisation to promote security in the Middle East, its president said on Tuesday, saying it could be a platform to anchor stability in one of the world's most volatile neighbourhoods.

Turkish nationalist leader Devlet Bahceli, who is President Tayyip Erdogan's main parliamentary ally, said on Tuesday that it "would be beneficial" to release from prison the former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas.