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A group of filmmakers, including Oscar winner Jane Campion and Basque filmmaker Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, have requested their films be withdrawn from Israel's Jerusalem Film Festival. According to the...

The UK, Canada, and Australia expressed "deep concern" late Friday about the expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories and called on Tel Aviv to reverse its decision,...

The Australian Labor Party passed a resolution yesterday, during the final day of the Victorian party conference, calling for the federal Australian government to recognise the state of Palestine....

The UK government has announced major changes to visa requirements for the six countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Jordan. Nationals of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain,...

A group of Australian women and children trapped in detention camps in northeast Syria are taking the Australian government to court to try and secure repatriation. The women argue...

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said, on Thursday, it had uncovered a US National Security Agency (NSA) plot using previously unknown malware to access specially made so-called backdoor vulnerabilities...

Poetry is like a portal, it transports people and transforms them and that's what will change the world, says this award winning Arab poet

Expressing "frustration" over continued incarceration and the US pursuit of whistleblower, Julian Assange, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said the case "needs to be brought to a conclusion",...

Dozens of parliamentarians from six parties as well as independent MPs and Lords in the UK have called on the US Attorney-General to drop extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks founder,...

Over the past decade several Shia Muslim scholars have been "repeatedly and unexpectedly" denied entry to the US, according to a report yesterday by the Guardian. In many cases...

The women claim the attacks happened on his private plane between 2006 and 2009

Sudan will need to import 3.5 million tonnes of wheat this year because of a 30 per cent drop in the projected local harvest after farmers switched to planting...

Australian authorities said, on Monday, they had arrested a former soldier for allegedly killing an Afghanistan civilian while deployed with the country's defence force there, Reuters reports. The 41-year-old...

Thirty-eight countries at the UN Human Rights Council have demanded justice following the huge explosion in Beirut port on 4 August 2020. In a joint statement delivered by Australia...

Football Australia (FA) and its stakeholders have reached an "overwhelming consensus" that a reported Saudi Arabia sponsorship deal does not align with their vision for the women's World Cup,...

Multilateralism should be the MIKTA nations' response to a shifting global system marked by "global complexities and multiple crises," Turkiye's Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on Thursday, Anadolu News...

Some countries just seem to be doomed from the start, and Syria looks like one of them. With a family of dictators at the helm, an ongoing civil war,...

An Iraqi refugee has died in an immigration detention centre in Australia in a suspected suicide over the weekend. According to the Refugee Action Coalition (RAC) the detainee requested...

Australian authorities have arrested a woman for entering and remaining in areas formerly held by the Daesh terror group, as the country continues to struggle with hesitancy of repatriation...

There is a clause in Cristiano Ronaldo's new contract at Al Nassr which means that he may be able to play in the Champions League again

With its roles in the Black Sea grain initiative and the mediation in the Russia-Ukraine war, Turkiye contributed to establishing global peace, tranquility, and security in 2022, Turkiye's president...

We are living in a period of international tumult. A war on European soil, a global pandemic and increasing climate change alarm converge to destabilise the international political balance....

Palestinian authorities in Gaza on Monday mourned an Australian doctor who spent years serving Palestinian refugees, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, the Government Information Office said Jean...

A decade ago, Tunisian fisherman, Ahmed Chelli's nets bulged with fish and octopus that he sold at the local market in the Kerkennah islands. Today, he pulls up only...

'The UN Human Rights Commission released a report last month concluding that Israel’s occupation of Palestine is inherently illegal'

People calling for a boycott of the World Cup in Qatar are from a handful of countries that do not represent the rest of the world, which is looking...

Nobel laureates have called upon the government in Egypt to release prisoners of conscience in advance of the COP27 climate change summit in Sharm El Sheikh.

New Zealand, on Monday, announced to suspend its bilateral human rights dialogue with Iran after recent protests, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, Foreign Affairs Minister, Nanaia Mahuta,...

Former US President Donald Trump's so-called "Deal of the Century" was meant to be a finality of sorts, an event reminiscent of Francis Fukuyama's premature declaration of the "End...

In December 2018, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison emulated the Trump administration and recognised West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, although it kept its embassy in Tel Aviv. Australia...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Tuesday welcomed a decision by the Australian government to end its recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Anadolu News Agency reports....

Israel’s FM has summoned Australia’s ambassador to Tel Aviv after Australia retracted its recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel's capital