Mena Today

The United Arab Emirates and the United States are strategic partners and there will be more joint investments in artificial intelligence between them.

Thousands of Iranians turned out to mourn President Ebrahim Raisi in the city of Tabriz on Tuesday, after he was killed in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan border at the weekend along with his foreign minister and seven others.

Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed ben Abdel Rahman al-Thani received Lebanese former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Joumblatt, his wife Nora and their son Taymour.

EU countries have formally adopted a plan to use windfall profits from Russian central bank assets frozen in the EU for Ukraine's defence, the Belgian government said on Tuesday.

Forging formal Israeli-Saudi relations as part of an emerging trilateral deal involving Washington would require a calming of the Gaza war and a discussion of prospects for Palestinian governance, the U.S. envoy to Jerusalem Jack Lew said on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made reassuring comments about King Salman's health during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday after the royal court said on Sunday the monarch will undergo treatment for a lung inflammation, state TV reported.

The recent decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants for Israeli political leaders alongside Hamas terrorists marks a troubling departure from the principles of justice and morality.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, commenting on the helicopter crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, said on Tuesday that U.S. sanctions had worsened aviation safety.

The IDF said on Tuesday that it had killed Qassem Saqlawi, the Commander of the Rocket and Missile Array in Hezbollah’s Coastal Sector.

Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukemia, the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday, almost five years after she announced she had fully recovered from breast cancer.

France is open to the United Arab Emirates investing in its nuclear energy industry, its finance minister said on Tuesday ahead of discussions in the Gulf state with UAE officials.