News Archive

Once again, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has chosen to vilify Israel while ignoring the brutal realities that led to the war in Gaza. 

The President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has appointed Fadhl Salem Saeed Al-Kaabi as the UAE’s new ambassador to Lebanon. 

Turkish opposition lawmakers piled tables and chairs at the entrance of an office at their party's Istanbul headquarters on Monday to block police and prevent the replacement of a senior official whom a court ordered out last week.

A Turkish court on Monday ordered the release of youth activist Enes Hocaogullari pending trial on charges including "inciting hatred", in a case that has drawn sharp criticism from European institutions and rights groups.

Beloved Palestinian ice cream parlour Kazem, forced to shutter its Gaza doors in 2023 as the Israel-Hamas war escalated, has opened up in the United Arab Emirates, offering not just frozen treats, but a taste of nostalgia to the local community.

Time is running out in talks between the U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran on how to fully resume inspections in the Islamic Republic, the watchdog's chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday, adding that he hoped the discussions would conclude within days.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Monday a raft of punitive measures against Israel, including a ban on Israel-bound ships and aircraft carrying weapons from Spanish ports and airspace, an embargo on goods produced in Israeli settlements, and new funding for the Palestinian Authority and the UN agency UNRWA.

Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people in what police described as "a terrorist attack," one of the deadliest in the city in the past few years.

Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is suffering from worsening heart problems and needs urgent medical attention, her son said on Friday, in an appeal for her immediate release from "cruel and life-threatening" custody.

Access to major social media and messaging platforms in Turkey has been restored a day after widespread restrictions were imposed, Netblocks, a global internet monitor, said on Monday.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday issued what he called his "last warning" to Hamas, urging the Palestinian militant group to accept a deal to release hostages from Gaza.

Turkey's main opposition CHP called on citizens and residents of Istanbul to gather on Sunday, after police set up barricades in areas around its Istanbul headquarters in what the party leader called a "siege".