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Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro commemorated the people who lost their lives in the deadly Beirut port explosion on Friday, Aug. 4

Iraq plans to ask Interpol to issue international alerts seeking the arrest of former senior officials including an ex-finance minister and an ex-intelligence chief over the alleged theft of...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Sri Lankan counterpart, Ali Sabry, discussed relations and regional and international issues Saturday in Tehran, according to a statement, Anadolu reports. Amirabdollahian...

Libyan Presidential Council President Mohamad al-Menfi highlighted the importance Saturday of cooperation between neighboring countries and an African bloc for regional stability, particularly in Niger, Anadolu reports. Menfi met...

Iraq's telecoms ministry said it has blocked the Telegram messaging app over national security concerns and in order to preserve the integrity of users' personal data, which it said...

Turkiye's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba on Saturday spoke over the phone and discussed steps that can be taken for the revival of the...

Israeli protesters took to the streets again Saturday to protest the coalition government's judiciary regulation, Anadolu reports. Demonstrators, who have organized mass protests every Saturday against the far-right coalition...

Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank raided a Palestinian village Saturday, accompanied by soldiers, Anadolu reports. Dozens of settlers conducted the raid in Et-Tevane, in the Mesafir Yatta...

A total of 130 irregular migrants pushed back into Turkish territorial waters by Greek forces were rescued on Saturday by the Turkish Coast Guard off the coasts of western...

Saudi Arabia sent an 18th humanitarian plane to support victims of the Feb. 6 twin earthquakes in southern Kahramanmaras province which affected several cities in Turkiye and Syria, according...

Algeria and the EU have called for unifying political and diplomatic pressures to ensure a return of the "constitutional order" in Niger, Anadolu reports. This came during a phone...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke over the phone on Saturday and discussed the revival of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with his Emirati counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is on an official visit to Egypt, Anadolu reports. According to a...

I know none of the details of the arrest of Palestinian Amin Abu Rashid and his daughter Israa in Holland recently. I do know, however, that the track record...

A Gaza-based woman has launched a virtual reality initiative, PAL VR, which defies barriers by inviting Palestinians worldwide to explore their rich heritage and history using VR and 360-imaging technology. The ongoing Israeli occupation has meant many Palestinians are unable to visit their homeland and explore its myriad heritage sites and landmarks.

The United Kingdom has taken the lead in supporting the appeal for victims of the deadly earthquakes in Turkiye six months ago, with donations from the country's population reaching...

A group of senators in the United States have urged the government to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Egypt, citing the country's increasingly poor...

Tunisia's president highlighted the importance his country attaches to strengthening relations with the United Arab Emirates, the Tunisian Presidency said Friday, Anadolu reports. Kais Saied received Sheikh Shakhboot Nahyan...

People attend the funeral of 19-year-old Qusay Jamal Matan, who killed by Israeli settlers in gun attack, in Burka village of Ramallah, West Bank

The 14th annual Ambassadors Conference on Saturday started in the capital Ankara with the participation of Turkish ambassadors serving abroad and at home, Anadolu reports. The conference, being held...

The US State Department said Friday that it is in talks with Congress as a pair of Republican lawmakers continues to block the dispersal of some $75 million in...

Denmark is studying several measures and legislation to prevent the recurrence of Quran burning incidents, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Friday, Anadolu reports. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen affirmed...

Saudi Arabia called on its citizens to quickly leave Lebanese territory and to avoid approaching areas where there have been armed clashes, the Saudi embassy in Lebanon said in...

Three civilians were killed in attacks by Russian warplanes on a village in northwestern Syria, local sources said on Saturday, Anadolu reports. Two Russian warplanes departed from the Khmeimim...

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday was arrested from his residence in Lahore after he was handed a jail term in a corruption case, said a senior...

Head of the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission Moayad Sha'aban was attacked by Israeli occupation forces on Friday during an anti-settlement demonstration in the West Bank. Sha'aban sustained bruises to the...

Ahmed Najib Chebbi, head of the National Salvation Front (the largest opposition bloc), urged that Tunisia needs a national rescue government resulting from a national dialogue: "In which President...

Israeli occupation forces and settlers committed 897 attacks on Palestinians, their properties and holy sites during July, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission announced on Friday. In its monthly...

Tunisian Security Services have rescued 15,327 illegal migrants during the first half of 2023, Tunisian Interior Minister Kamal Feki announced on Friday. According to Feki, 95 per cent of...

Senior Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza Khader Habib announced on Friday that the Palestinian resistance is facing "conspiracies from different sides to distort its efforts." "This criminal effort is...

Hamas leader Abdel Rahman Shadid denounced the attack by members of the Palestinian Authority (PA)'s security agency on writer Lama Khater and her husband, released prisoner Hazem Al-Fakhouri, describing...

The city of Alexandria, north of Cairo, witnessed a horrific crime after a young man killed a woman and stored her body in the refrigerator. According to investigations by...