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Iranian authorities executed 11 people from the Baluch minority on drug charges within 48 hours, according to a non-governmental organisation, raising concerns that this group has been disproportionately targeted...

Civilians are living in "unimaginable horror" in Sudan, where the army and the Rapid Support Forces have been fighting since 15 April, Amnesty International has said in its latest...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has expressed his support for more countries joining the BRICS group. Lula said in the capital, Brasilia, yesterday that he supports countries...

The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters has ordered the removal of seizure of funds orders issued against 146 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, the Mada Masr news site reported. The...

Pakistan intelligence and police agencies are using Israeli spyware, Haaretz has reported."Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency and various police units in the country have been using products produced by the...

A number of Egyptian high school students have attempted to commit suicide over the past week due to concerns about their exam results, according to a report yesterday by...

Israeli human rights group Hamoked has revealed that the apartheid state is currently holding over 1,200 detainees with neither charge nor trial, the highest number in more than three...

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Tuesday banned Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem's Silwan neighbourhood from holding ceremonies to celebrate students' exam results, WAFA News Agency reported. Israeli occupation forces...

Israeli offensives against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip increase the suffering of people with disabilities, Human Rights Watch has warned. The military offensive in May might have faded...

Tunisia is facing a "terrorist" plot that seeks to "starve the people", President Kais Saied said yesterday. This came during the appointment ceremony of Prime Minister Ahmed Al-Hachani in Tunis, according...

UAE President Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan met today with King Abdullah II of Jordan to review bilateral ties and explore opportunities to further strengthen the longstanding partnership between...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh denied on Wednesday that he had criticised Qatar for funding the Gaza Strip's electricity plant, Al-Watan Voice has reported. Earlier this week, the...

The President of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, received an official invitation from his Iranian counterpart, Ibrahim Raisi, to visit Tehran. This came during a meeting...

The Bank of Israel raised it warning level of the threat to Israel's financial system on Wednesday, citing uncertainty related to the government's judicial overhaul. According to the Financial...

Some 1,800 public sector employees in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and its countryside resigned from their jobs during the first half of the year, the pro- regime Tishreen newspaper reported. The...

More than 50 Israeli police volunteers have asked to suspend their voluntary service in protest against the government's judicial overhaul, local media reported on Wednesday. Ten other volunteer police...

The Israeli protest organisation, Kaplan Force, yesterday accused National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, of "inciting" the police to use violence against them, Anadolu news agency reported. "Ben-Gvir wants to shed the...

The ministry of health in Israel has expressed concern that more doctors appear to be planning to emigrate and work abroad, the Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. In...

Some 71 per cent of Moroccans are willing to emigrate to advance their careers, a new poll has found. Conducted by Bayt, the largest job recruitment website in the Middle...

Far-right Israeli Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister, Amichai Eliyahu, yesterday urged Tel Aviv to annex the occupied West Bank, local media reported. The extremist minister called the Green Line, which separates the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948  – now Israel -from those occupied...

Turkish citizens in the southern province of Hatay received more than 2,000 prefabricated homes from the Turkish Religious Endowment in cooperation with the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DiTib), Anadolu...

Iran's Navy has unveiled new vessels equipped with missiles possessing a range of 600 kilometres, amid increasing tensions in the waters of the Gulf. According to the semi-official Tasnim...

A British barge set to house hundreds of asylum-seekers will not be "a death trap", a UK Cabinet Minister asserted on Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reports. "This actual ship was...

Members of the ultranationalist group known as Danske Patrioter (Danish Patriots) continued the desecration of Muslims' holy book, the Quran, for the third consecutive day on Wednesday in Denmark's...

Firms in Israel and Saudi Arabia have signed a joint venture agreement to advance the Gulf Kingdom's transition to solar energy, in a rare public deal between the two...

The UN warned that hunger and displacement in Sudan are "spiralling out of control" amid ongoing fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, Anadolu...

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard launched a surprise military drill Wednesday on disputed islands in the Persian Gulf as the US military increased its presence in the region, AP reports. According...

Palestinians say that the historic town of Sebastia, located in the Occupied West Bank, is facing the threat of "Judaisation" by Israel, Anadolu Agency reports. The town is designated...

A Turkish woman employee was seriously wounded in an armed attack on Tuesday at Sweden's honorary Consulate in the western province of Izmir, local Turkish media, NTV news reports....

Russia, on Wednesday, criticised UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, for calling its initiative to supply African countries grain free of charge "handful of donations", Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking at a...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin, told his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdogan, on Wednesday that Moscow was ready to return to the Black Sea grain deal as soon as the West...

More than 2,000 Palestinian-Americans have travelled into or through Israel since it eased conditions for them at border crossings as part of a bid to achieve a visa waiver deal with...