News Archive

The Muslim Brotherhood’s old ideology has found a new accelerator. Democracies are still acting like it’s 1938.

Turkey unveiled dozens of new finds at a major archaeological site in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, giving fresh insight into an area seen as showing humanity's transition from hunter-gatherers to settled societies more than 11,000 years ago.

Russia will make no big concessions on a peace plan for Ukraine, a senior Russian diplomat said on Wednesday, after a leaked recording of a call involving U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff showed he had advised Moscow on how to pitch to Donald Trump.

Uber Technologies has officially launched fully driverless robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, marking a major milestone both for the company and for the region. 

The Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in partnership with the Serbian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, hosted the Abu Dhabi–Serbia Business Forum as part of ongoing efforts to position the emirate as a leading global hub for trade and investment.

A Turkish court sentenced a prominent independent journalist, Fatih Altayli, to four years and two months in prison on Wednesday over comments he made about President Tayyip Erdogan's rule, state broadcaster TRT reported. 

Lebanon and Cyprus signed a long-awaited maritime demarcation deal on Wednesday, paving the way for potential exploration of offshore gas fields and energy cooperation in the Mediterranean.

Egypt has intensified its diplomatic engagement in Lebanon as Foreign Minister Badr Abdellaty arrived Tuesday night at Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport for a series of high-level meetings, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported.

Preparations in Abu Dhabi have accelerated sharply as the UAE readies to host the Formula 1® Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with the action set to ignite at Yas Marina Circuit in just 10 days.

Latifa al-Droubi, the recently unveiled wife of Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, is rapidly becoming the new public face of the regime that seized power in Damascus a year ago. 

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday told a Coalition of the Willing meeting that London was "ready to move" with the European Union on providing financial support to Ukraine based on the value of "immobilised" assets.

Syrian security forces used gunfire on Tuesday to break up two rival groups of demonstrators in the coastal town of Latakia, heartland of the country's Alawite minority, witnesses and officials said.