Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have witnessed the formal exchange of a dozen cooperation agreements including on defense
April 29, 2025
France's foreign ministry accused Israel's embassy of "unacceptable" behaviour on Tuesday after it banned two French groups, including elected officials, from visiting Israel and
April 29, 2025
It took five hours of queuing at a community kitchen in Gaza's Nuseirat district for displaced grandmother Um
April 29, 2025
Israeli forces detain prominent Palestinian journalist in early morning West Bank raid
April 29, 2025
Moussa Hajj Khalil is among many Syrians rebuilding their homes from the rubble of the historic and economically important city of Aleppo, as Syria's new leaders
April 29, 2025
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projects that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party has won Canada’s federal election
April 28, 2025
The head of Israel’s internal security service says he will resign in June over the failure of his agency to warn of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks
April 28, 2025
Pakistan's defence minister said on Monday a military incursion by neighbouring India was imminent in the aftermath of a deadly militant attack on tourists in
April 28, 2025
Iran has proposed meeting the European parties to a 2015 nuclear deal possibly in Rome this Friday if talks resume with the United States, four
April 28, 2025
The United States intensified strikes on Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis this year to stop attacks on Red Sea shipping, but rights activists have raised concerns over
April 28, 2025
Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways is not seeing any effects from the turmoil caused by U.S.
April 28, 2025
U.N. and Palestinian representatives at the International Court of Justice accused Israel of breaking international law by refusing to let aid into Gaza, on the
April 28, 2025
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said on Sunday that police were investigating a series of incidents that have erupted from clashing pro-Palestinian protests and
April 28, 2025
\World military expenditure reached $2.72 trillion in 2024, an increase of 9.4% from 2023 and the steepest year-on-year rise since at least the end of the Cold War, according to a
April 27, 2025
Google DeepMind staff in Britain plan to unionise to challenge the company's decision to sell its artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to defence groups with ties to the Israeli
April 26, 2025
Federal judge says 2-year-old US citizen was deported with mother to Honduras
April 26, 2025
Police in Istanbul have detained 47 people in dawn raids linked to a corruption investigation that saw the city’s mayor imprisoned last month
April 26, 2025
Negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program will move Saturday in Oman to what’s known as the “expert level” — a sign analysts say shows that the talks are moving forward rapidly
April 22, 2025
Iran and the United States will hold a third round of talks in Oman on Saturday over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
April 09, 2025
Fact check: It wasn’t ‘in jest.’ Here are 53 times Trump said he’d end Ukraine war within 24 hours or before taking office
April 25, 2025
Iran sees its missile programme rather than its uranium enrichment as a bigger obstacle in nuclear talks with the United States that resume on
April 25, 2025
An Iraqi delegation met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus on Friday to discuss restoring an Iraqi oil pipeline through Syria to Mediterranean ports, the Iraqi state
April 25, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into the devastated Gaza Strip.
April 25, 2025
After the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, ignited the devastating war in Gaza, a deadly new reality also took hold for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
April 25, 2025
Houthi rebels in Yemen have shot down seven U.S. Reaper drones in less than six weeks
April 24, 2025
The United States is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth well over $100 billion, six sources with direct knowledge of the
April 24, 2025
The Palestinian leadership approved the creation of the position of vice president of Mahmoud Abbas, and possibly his successor, on Thursday, a step widely seen as needed to
April 24, 2025
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday he was ready to travel to Europe for talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, with France
April 24, 2025
Lebanon's foreign ministry reprimanded Tehran's ambassador to Beirut on Thursday over comments alleging that plans to disarm Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah were a "
April 24, 2025
Russia’s illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine 11 years ago was quick and bloodless
April 24, 2025
Lebanon has received preliminary approval to increase the value of a World Bank reconstruction loan to $400 million from $250 million, Finance Minister Yassine Jaber said in a
April 23, 2025
The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Britain jointly called on Israel to adhere to international law by allowing the unhindered passage of humanitarian aid into Gaza, in a
April 23, 2025
The International Monetary Fund has appointed Ron van Rooden as head of its mission to Syria, Syria's Finance Minister Mohammed Yosr Bernieh said in a written statement, making him
April 23, 2025
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Hamas on Wednesday to lay down arms and hand the running of Gaza to his Palestinian Authority,
April 23, 2025
Palestinian Authority president calls Hamas ‘sons of dogs,’ demands release of hostages and disarmament
April 23, 2025
Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a missile toward northern Israel, the first-such attack by the group to reach the area as a monthlong intense U.S. airstrike campaign continues to target them
April 23, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending himself against a second assertion that he shared classified material through an unapproved and unsecured network
April 22, 2025
US and Iran express optimism following second round of nuclear talks
April 19, 2025
The US and Iran will resume nuclear talks on Saturday. Here’s what we know
April 18, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil’s wife gives birth after ICE denied him temporary release to attend the delivery
April 22, 2025
Israeli strikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been supplied by mediators to clear rubble
April 22, 2025
The Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC (du) on Tuesday announced a 2 billion dirhams ($544.54 million) hyperscale data center deal with Microsoft.
April 22, 2025
Israel is hopeful that it will reach a trade agreement with the United States before a pause to a barrage of U.S. tariffs on global imports expires on July 9
April 22, 2025
Expert-level Iran-U.S. talks that were supposed to take place on Wednesday will be shifted to Saturday, Tehran's foreign ministry spokesperson said, with a third round of high-level
April 22, 2025
Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi will visit China on April 23 at the invitation of China, the Chinese foreign ministry announced on Tuesday.
April 22, 2025
Antisemitic incidents, partly fueled by campus protests, reached record-breaking high in 2024, according to the ADL
April 22, 2025
Israeli police have been scouring the Mediterranean coast for a swimmer they fear may have been attacked by a shark
April 22, 2025
The United States issued new sanctions on Tuesday targeting Iranian liquefied petroleum gas magnate Seyed Asadoollah Emamjomeh and his corporate network, the Treasury Department
April 22, 2025
The Anti-Defamation League says the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States reached a record high last year
April 22, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Iran's nuclear programme on Tuesday with the visiting leader of Oman, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said, a Kremlin official was quoted as
April 22, 2025
The Israeli military launched one of the biggest waves of strikes in Gaza for weeks on Tuesday, residents said, and health officials issued a new warning that
April 22, 2025
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday lowered its 2025 GDP growth forecast for Saudi Arabia, while flagging headwinds for the broader region, including a more
April 22, 2025
The plight of migrants was one of Pope Francis’ top priorities
April 22, 2025
Pope Francis's death has elicited an outpouring of grief in Indonesia, with tributes in the world's largest Muslim-majority country praising the pontiff's
April 22, 2025
The death of Pope Francis has sent shockwaves through Iraq’s Christian community, where his presence once brought hope after one of the darkest chapters in the country’s recent history
April 22, 2025
In the bustling Gold Souk in Dubai, dubbed the "City of Gold", 22-karat gold jewellery is a traditional favourite for weddings, religious celebrations, and as a family
April 22, 2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared detailed plans about a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen on a second Signal group chat that included his wife, lawyer and brother, three people familiar with the chat told CNN. Former Biden administration Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh and CNN military analyst retired US Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton join Jessica Dean to discuss.
April 20, 2025
Oil prices fell more than 2% on Monday on signs of progress in talks between the U.S. and Iran, while investors remained concerned about economic headwinds from
April 20, 2025
President Donald Trump said on Monday that he stood behind U.S.
April 21, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother where he shared similar details of a March military airstrike against Yemen’s Houthi militants that were sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders
April 20, 2025
In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war
April 21, 2025
The White House on Monday denied a report that it has begun searching for a new defense secretary after Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth reportedly shared details of a U.S. attack on Yemen's
April 21, 2025
The White House has expressed support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following media reports that he shared sensitive military details in another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother
April 21, 2025
The main Palestinian rescue service in Gaza has condemned Israel’s probe into the killings of 15 medical workers last month, calling it a “fabricated investigation.”
April 21, 2025
U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s capital killed 12 people and wounded 34 others, the Houthi rebels said early Monday
April 21, 2025
The Palestinian Red Crescent called on Monday for a "serious investigation" into the killing of 15 aid workers in Gaza last month, a day after the Israeli military
April 21, 2025
The head of Israel's domestic intelligence service said on Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bid to sack him followed his refusal to fulfil requests
April 21, 2025
Hegseth shared detailed military plans in second Signal chat that included his wife and brother
April 20, 2025
Members of Gaza's tiny Christian community said they were "heartbroken" on Monday at the death of Pope Francis, who campaigned for peace
April 21, 2025
Tributes to Pope Francis are pouring in from around the world
April 21, 2025
Saudi oil giant Aramco signed a joint development agreement with Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer BYD to explore collaboration in the development of new
April 21, 2025
All five members of the Bank of Israel's Monetary Policy Committee voted to keep the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4.5% on April 7, according to minutes of the meeting
April 21, 2025
The Trump administration says it can deport noncitizen students that create foreign security threats. The Supreme Court might ultimately decide the limits of these residents’ free speech.
April 21, 2025
Gulf issuers, including Saudi Arabia's $925 billion sovereign wealth fund, are working on a round of bond offerings, according to sources,
April 21, 2025
Max Verstappen says ‘people can’t handle the full truth’ after Saudi Arabia time-penalty
April 21, 2025
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi will visit China on Tuesday, foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday, ahead of a third round of nuclear talks between
April 21, 2025
U.S.
April 20, 2025
U.S.
April 21, 2025
Oscar Piastri went top of the Formula 1 standings with victory at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Sunday
April 20, 2025
An Israeli investigation into the killings of 15 Palestinian medics last month in Gaza by Israeli forces says it has found “professional failures.”
April 20, 2025
The U.S.
April 20, 2025
Dan Caldwell, once one of U.S.
April 20, 2025
‘Professional failures’ led to killing of Palestinian medics in Gaza, says Israeli military
April 20, 2025
The Israeli military on Sunday said a review into last month's killing of emergency responders in Gaza found there had been "
April 20, 2025
Lebanese authorities have detained several people who were allegedly planning to launch rockets into Israel and seized the weapons
April 20, 2025
A ship carrying wheat has arrived in Syria's Latakia port, the first delivery of its kind since former President Bashar al-Assad was ousted by rebels in December, the government said
April 20, 2025
Pope wishes ‘Happy Easter’ to delighted crowds at Vatican after briefly meeting Vance
April 20, 2025
Pope Francis entered St.
April 20, 2025
Thousands of protesters rallied in Washington and other cities across the U.S. on Saturday to voice their opposition to President Donald Trump's policies on
April 19, 2025
The father of a U.S.-Israeli hostage held in Gaza said on Saturday he remains hopeful his 21-year-old son was still alive after Hamas said it could not account for his
April 19, 2025
Ukraine and Russia conducted a swap of more than 500 prisoners of war on Saturday, the latest in a series of exchanges since Russia launched a full-scale invasion more than three years
April 19, 2025
Harvard said on Saturday the Trump administration was "doubling down" on far-reaching demands on the university despite a published report that government
April 19, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he had instructed the military to intensify pressure on
April 19, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has “no choice” but to continue fighting in Gaza
April 19, 2025
Netanyahu vows to continue war in Gaza despite growing opposition at home
April 19, 2025
Yemen's Houthi rebels say the U.S. military has launched a series of airstrikes on the capital, Sanaa, and a rebel-held coastal city
April 19, 2025
Iran and the United States plan to meet over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program again next week, after both sides said they made progress in their talks in Rome
April 19, 2025
Yemen’s Houthi rebels say U.S. airstrikes targeting oil port killed at least 74 people and injured at least 171 others
April 18, 2025
Yemen’s Houthis vow to continue attacks after more than 70 killed in US airstrikes on port
April 18, 2025
Gaza journalist featured in new Cannes documentary killed in Israeli airstrike
April 18, 2025
International students are being told by email that their visas are revoked and that they must ‘self-deport.’ What to know
April 19, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a surprise one-day ceasefire in Ukraine on Saturday for Easter, but Kyiv said Russian forces continued artillery fire and
April 19, 2025
Tunisian media say a court has sentenced leading opposition figures to between 13 and 66 years in prison
April 19, 2025
The Taliban's acting foreign minister on Saturday expressed "concern and sadness" during a rare meeting with Pakistan's
April 19, 2025
Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said is set to visit Moscow on Monday, days after the start of a round of Muscat-mediated nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran.
April 19, 2025
Iran and the United States agreed on Saturday to begin drawing up a framework for a potential nuclear deal, Iran's foreign minister said, after talks that a U.S.
April 19, 2025
A Tunisian court on Saturday handed jail terms of 13 to 66 years to opposition leaders, businessmen and lawyers on charges of conspiring, a case the
April 19, 2025
Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months despite President Donald Trump telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
April 19, 2025
Iran and the United States will hold talks Saturday in Oman, their third round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
April 19, 2025
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed at least 25 people including children as the new U.S. ambassador to Israel made his first public appearance in Jerusalem
April 18, 2025
Iran believes reaching an agreement on its nuclear programme with the United States is possible as long as Washington is realistic, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Friday on
April 18, 2025
A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump's administration on Friday to transfer a Tufts University student being held in Louisiana to Vermont while he weighs her
April 18, 2025
A federal judge has ordered that a Tufts University student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities in March be brought to Vermont
April 18, 2025
A class action lawsuit filed Friday asks a federal court to reinstate the legal status of international students caught up in a Trump administration crackdown that has left more than a thousand fearful of deportation
April 18, 2025
Two U.S.
April 18, 2025
A Tunisian court is set to issue a ruling in the conspiracy case against prominent opponents, as lawyers protested and described the trial as a farce, while others
April 18, 2025
Trump’s ‘lone ranger’: How Steve Witkoff became the de facto point man on America’s foreign policy challenges
April 18, 2025
Iran has sought support from Russia over a possible deal with Washington over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, ahead of a second round of talks this weekend in Rome
April 18, 2025
KKR and I Squared Capital are among global asset managers bidding for a district cooling business owned by Abu Dhabi's Multiply Group, part
April 18, 2025
The United Nations Development Programme is hoping to deliver $1.3 billion over three years to support war-ravaged Syria, including by rebuilding
April 18, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration said on Friday it sought Harvard University's records on foreign funding going back a decade and on some foreign ties,
April 18, 2025
Iran told the United States in talks last week it was ready to accept some limits on its uranium enrichment but needed watertight guarantees President Donald Trump
April 18, 2025
U.S. strikes on Yemen's Ras Isa fuel terminal on the Red Sea coast have killed at least 74 people in the deadliest attack since the U.S. started its bombing campaign against
April 17, 2025
Israeli airstrikes hit about 40 targets across the Gaza Strip over the past day, the military said on Friday, hours after Hamas rejected an Israeli ceasefire
April 18, 2025
Fatima Abu Naim, a mother of five, lives in a hillside cave in the occupied West Bank, under increasing pressure from Jewish
April 18, 2025
Turkey begins mass trials following protests over Istanbul mayor’s detention
April 18, 2025
Portrait of a wounded Palestinian boy wins Press Photo of the Year
April 18, 2025
Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Friday that disinflation would continue despite some recent deterioration in expectations, adding that the
April 18, 2025
Police have arrested scores of people in Pakistan in recent weeks after more than 10 mob attacks on outlets of U.S. fast-food chain KFC, sparked by anti-United States
April 18, 2025
As far as biographies go, the two men in charge of the delicate negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program couldn’t be more different
April 18, 2025
When nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force veterans signed an open letter last week calling for an end to the war in Gaza, the military responded immediately, saying it would dismiss any active reservist who signed the document
April 18, 2025
With his campaign promises unfulfilled to quickly bring peace to Gaza and Ukraine, U.S.
April 18, 2025
Hamas wants a comprehensive deal to end the war in Gaza and swap all Israeli hostages for Palestinians jailed in Israel, a senior official from the Palestinian
April 17, 2025
The Trump administration on Thursday ordered a social media vetting for all U.S. visa applicants who have been to the Gaza Strip on or after January 1, 2007, an
April 17, 2025
Aid groups are raising new alarm over Israel’s blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip
April 17, 2025
Talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program are “in a very crucial” stage
April 17, 2025
Hundreds of students, faculty and community members on a California campus booed on Thursday as speakers accused the administration of President
April 17, 2025
A suspect was charged with a hate crime for a November attack on two Jewish students who were demonstrating in support of Israel at Chicago's DePaul University
April 17, 2025
The U.S. will withdraw about 600 troops from Syria, leaving fewer than 1,000 to work with Kurdish allies to counter the Islamic State group
April 17, 2025
Hamas rejects ceasefire offer as far-right Israeli lawmakers call for escalation in Gaza
April 17, 2025
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani met on Thursday in Qatar with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the first encounter between the two leaders, Iraqi and Syrian state news
April 17, 2025
U.S.
April 17, 2025
State Department says life-saving wheat headed for Yemen won’t go to waste and US may redirect ship after CNN reporting
April 17, 2025
Oil prices settled more than 3% higher on Thursday, supported by hopes for a trade deal between the United States and the European Union and new U.S. sanctions to
April 16, 2025
Thousands of Jewish worshippers visit Jerusalem holy site as Israeli lawmaker boasts ‘Arabs aren’t allowed to come near us’
April 17, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was in no hurry to launch an attack on Iran over its nuclear program, a day ahead of U.S.-Iran talks in Rome.
April 17, 2025
Judges at the International Criminal Court have asked Hungary to explain why it failed to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visited Budapest earlier this month
April 17, 2025
Egypt's central bank lowered interest rates by 225 basis points on Thursday, its first cut since November 2020, a decision mostly driven by inflation plunging as uncertainty about
April 17, 2025
The 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act gives ICE broad power, including the right to arrest many noncitizens. The extent of this power is now being tested.
April 14, 2025
Russia on Thursday suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organisation, in a move that paves the way for Moscow to
April 17, 2025
Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman arrived in Tehran on Thursday for meetings with officials in a visit ahead of weekend talks between Iran and the United States over the
April 17, 2025
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sent his foreign minister to Moscow on Thursday with a letter for President Vladimir Putin to brief
April 17, 2025
Russia’s Supreme Court has lifted a ban on Afghanistan’s Taliban, who were designated as a terrorist group more than two decades ago
April 17, 2025
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani told Russian President Vladimir Putin at talks in the Kremlin on Thursday that Syria's new leader was keen to build
April 17, 2025
Saudi defense minister visits Iran in highest-level trip in decades as nuclear talks proceed
April 17, 2025
Turkey's central bank hiked its key interest rate by 350 basis points to 46% on Thursday, in a surprise move that reversed an easing cycle and
April 17, 2025
When resettlement programs were cut, Philadelphia area neighbors stepped up to help Afghan refugee
April 17, 2025
The UN nuclear watchdog should play a role in nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi said on Thursday, ahead of a second
April 17, 2025
The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday denied media reports they were involved in talks with the U.S. over a possible land offensive by military factions in Yemen
April 16, 2025
The Lebanese military says it has detained several people linked to firing rockets into Israel last month
April 17, 2025
A portrait of a young Palestinian boy who lost both arms as a result of an Israeli attack in Gaza has been named World Press Photo of the year
April 17, 2025
The Gaza Strip is strewn with undetonated explosives from tens of thousands of Israeli air strikes,
April 17, 2025
As his enemies closed in on Damascus, Bashar al-Assad, who ruled over Syria with an iron fist for 24
April 17, 2025
U.S.
April 16, 2025
Iranian state television has confirmed that the second round of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks will be held in Rome after earlier confusion over where the negotiations would take place
April 16, 2025
U.S.
April 16, 2025
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Wednesday met Russian nationals freed from captivity in the Gaza strip after militant group Hamas' October 2023 attacks on Israel and said Moscow's
April 16, 2025
Israel’s defense minister says its troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, after Israel unilaterally expanded its frontiers in the war unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack
April 16, 2025
Israel’s defense minister says troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely
April 16, 2025
A dog has been reunited with an Israeli family after the pet vanished for 18 months in Gaza
April 16, 2025
The United States on Wednesday issued new sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports, including against a China-based "teapot" oil refinery, as President Donald
April 16, 2025
U.S.
April 16, 2025
The Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on a Chinese oil refinery that's accused of purchasing more than $1 billion worth of Iranian oil
April 16, 2025
A notorious paramilitary group fighting against the Sudanese military says its forming a rival government that will rule parts of the country controlled by the group, including the western Darfur region
April 16, 2025
The Lebanese army said on Wednesday it had detained a number of Palestinians and Lebanese suspected of involvement in two attacks from the country on Israel in March and did not
April 16, 2025
The man charged with setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor's mansion while the governor and his family were there sleeping told police he did it because of the governor's
April 16, 2025
Suspect in arson at Pennsylvania governor’s home targeted the governor for his views on war in Gaza, warrant says
April 16, 2025
A top Emirati diplomat said the Gulf state was disappointed at the failure of a London conference this week to find consensus on ending the
April 16, 2025
The Maldives has banned Israeli passport holders from entering its territory, the president's office said on Wednesday, accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians
April 16, 2025
The European Commission on Wednesday included countries such as Egypt and Tunisia, where human rights have come under scrutiny, on a list of "safe countries" to which
April 16, 2025
Al Shabaab fighters captured a town in central Somalia on Wednesday that government forces had been using as a staging area to drive back an offensive by the militants that has
April 16, 2025
U.S.
April 16, 2025
Tens of thousands of people have gathered at the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem for the traditional priestly blessing
April 15, 2025
Israel has proposed a 45-day truce in Gaza to allow hostage releases and potentially begin indirect talks to end the war, while Hamas, which has already rejected one of its
April 16, 2025
Iran's right to enrich uranium is not negotiable, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Wednesday ahead of a second round of talks set to take place in Rome this weekend with the
April 16, 2025
Lebanon’s president says he seeks to disarm Hezbollah this year
April 16, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani will discuss efforts to find a possible peace deal to
April 16, 2025
India plans to end taxes on U.S. ethane and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) imports under broader negotiations with Washington as it looks to reduce its trade
April 16, 2025
Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday arbitrary detention was being used to eliminate dissent in Tunisia and called on its government to halt the crackdown and free all
April 16, 2025
(This April 15 story has been corrected to fix the launch date and add a dropped phrase to show it is a list of the group's members at launch, in
April 15, 2025
A ship full of lifesaving wheat is sailing towards Yemen. When it arrives next month, it may rot or be pillaged
April 16, 2025
Gaza has become a "mass grave" for Palestinians and those trying to help them, medical charity MSF said on Wednesday, as medics said the Israeli military killed
April 16, 2025
Jordan has arrested 16 members of the Muslim Brotherhood who were trained and financed in Lebanon and had plotted attacks on targets inside the kingdom
April 15, 2025
One of U.S.
April 15, 2025
An Israeli airstrike has struck the northern gate of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing a medic and wounding nine other people
April 15, 2025
An aid agency official says Afghan children will die because of US funding cuts
April 15, 2025
A spokesman for a hospital in Gaza says an Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of the Kuwaiti Field Hospital
April 15, 2025
The U.S. military is set to consolidate its presence in Syria over the coming weeks and months, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday, in a
April 15, 2025
President Donald Trump met with his top national security aides on Tuesday to discuss Iran's nuclear program ahead of a second meeting between U.S
April 15, 2025
Hundreds of Tunisians protested on Tuesday, demanding accountability, after three students died on Monday following a school wall collapse in the central town of Mazzouna, an
April 15, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited northern Gaza on Tuesday, accompanied by the country's defense minister, head of the military and other senior officials, his
April 15, 2025
The armed wing of Hamas said on Tuesday it had lost contact with a group of militants holding Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander in the Gaza
April 15, 2025
The European Union and Britain pledged on Tuesday to increase aid for Sudan, at a conference in London marking the second anniversary of a conflict that has
April 14, 2025
Trump envoy stresses need for verification in Iran nuclear talks
April 15, 2025
Israel proposes Gaza ceasefire deal to release 10 hostages for hundreds of Palestinians, Hamas says
April 15, 2025
A Palestinian student at Columbia University was taken into custody by ICE officials outside an immigration facility in Colchester, Vermont on Monday. Mohsen Mahdawi had led pro-Palestinian protests on campus, but stepped back in March 2024, before students started an encampment and occupied university buildings a month later.
April 15, 2025
The recent U.S. deployment of B-2 bombers, the only planes able to launch the most powerful bunker-busting bombs, to within range of Iran is a
April 15, 2025
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sought on Tuesday to play down expectations of a breakthrough in nuclear talks with the U.S., following stirrings of hope among
April 15, 2025
A second U.S. aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast waters ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
April 15, 2025
Armenia called on Azerbaijan on Tuesday to investigate ceasefire violations along the two countries' frontier, as a surge of reported incidents of cross-border gunfire raises
April 15, 2025
Israeli ministers accuse embattled security agency chief of waging political vendetta against government
April 15, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party accused the head of the domestic intelligence organization on Tuesday of turning parts of the service into "a private
April 15, 2025
The Kremlin on Tuesday declined to comment when asked if Russia was ready to take control of Iran's stocks of enriched uranium as part of a possible future nuclear deal between Iran
April 15, 2025
Turkey's Pro-Kurdish DEM Party called on parliament on Tuesday to pave the way for a renewed peace process by enacting legislation that would support the disarmament of the outlawed
April 15, 2025
Turkish authorities arrested 234 people in an operation coordinated with four European countries against criminal drug-trafficking organisations, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya
April 15, 2025
Russia does not appear serious about seeking peace in Ukraine despite pressure from Washington, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto told
April 15, 2025
Ras Hankorab Beach, a pristine spot on southern Egypt's Red Sea coast with crystal clear waters and flat white sands, is the jewel of Egypt's Wadi el-Gemal
April 15, 2025
The U.N. human rights office voiced concern on Tuesday about the protection of civilians in Lebanon as Israeli military operations have continued to kill
April 15, 2025
A steep drop in crude oil prices largely due to U.S.
April 15, 2025
Lazard is strengthening its footprint in the United Arab Emirates by opening an office in the capital city of Abu Dhabi which will serve as the investment bank's main financial
April 15, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "deeply alarmed" at Sunday's strike by Israeli forces on the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, his
April 15, 2025
A Hamas official says that the Palestinian militant group is sending a delegation to the Gulf Arab state of Qatar to continue the indirect ceasefire talks with Israel
April 14, 2025
Talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program had appeared ready to leave the Middle East, as an Italian source and others said the next round of negotiations would take place in Rome
April 14, 2025
A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University has been arrested at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship
April 14, 2025
A U.S. judge in Vermont on Monday ordered the Trump administration not to deport a Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist who was arrested upon arriving
April 15, 2025
Lebanon’s president says the disarmament of the militant group Hezbollah will come through negotiations as part of a national defense strategy and not through “force.”
April 14, 2025
Harvard on Monday rejected numerous demands from the Trump administration that it said would cede control of the school to a conservative government that
April 14, 2025
Suspected U.S. airstrikes around Yemen’s rebel-held capital have killed at least seven people and wounded 29 overnight
April 14, 2025
A Palestinian student leader at Columbia was steps away from his final citizenship interview. He instead faces deportation
April 15, 2025
Mediators Egypt and Qatar have presented a new Israeli proposal for a Gaza ceasefire to Hamas, Egyptian state-affiliated Al Qahera News
April 14, 2025
A second round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran continues to be held in Oman's Muscat, Iran's state news agency IRNA said on Monday quoting Foreign Ministry spokesman
April 14, 2025
Hamas said on Monday it was studying the proposal it received from mediators for a ceasefire in Gaza, adding it will submit its response "as soon as possible."
April 14, 2025
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi will visit Russia this week ahead of a planned second round of talks between Tehran and Washington aimed at resolving Iran's
April 14, 2025
A federal judge in Vermont questioned on Monday whether the Trump administration would instigate a "constitutional crisis" by not releasing a Turkish student at Tufts
April 14, 2025
A federal judge in Vermont who's considering whether he has jurisdiction over the case of a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration officials has raised the idea of having her brought back to his court for a hearing
April 14, 2025
Oil prices settled slightly higher on Monday on exemptions for some electronics from U.S. tariffs and data showing a sharp rebound in China's crude imports in
April 13, 2025
President Donald Trump said on Monday he believes Iran is intentionally delaying a nuclear deal with the United States and that it must
April 14, 2025
Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and visiting Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam discussed land and sea border demarcation and security coordination on Monday, weeks after the two
April 14, 2025
Between 60,000 and 80,000 households - or up to 400,000 people, - have been displaced from Sudan's Zamzam camp in North Darfur after it was taken over by the Rapid Support Forces,
April 14, 2025
Turkey is set to begin restoration and reinforcement work on the dome of the Hagia Sophia, in one of the biggest repair projects carried out on the 1,486-year-old structure,
April 14, 2025
Syria's ambassador to Moscow has requested asylum in Russia, state news agency TASS reported on Monday, citing a source.
April 14, 2025
The European Union will increase its financial support for the Palestinian Authority with a three-year package worth around 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion), the
April 14, 2025
The Greek coast guard said it had found the bodies of two women and 39 other migrants on the tiny island of Farmakonisi in the Aegean Sea on Monday, and that an investigation was
April 14, 2025
Saudi Arabia plans to pay off Syria's debts to the World Bank, three people familiar with the matter said, paving the way
April 14, 2025
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of a major camp for displaced people in North Darfur, the paramilitary group said on Sunday, after a four-day assault the government
April 13, 2025
The head of the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog, told Reuters it was worried about any violations of
April 14, 2025
Qatar and Egypt agreed to work towards a package of $7.5 billion in direct Qatari investments, according to a joint statement released by the Egyptian president's office on Monday.
April 14, 2025
A second round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran will be held in Rome, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was reported as saying on Monday by the country's main
April 14, 2025
The latest round of talks in Cairo to restore the defunct Gaza ceasefire and free Israeli hostages ended with no
April 14, 2025
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April 14, 2025
European Union foreign ministers on Monday adopted sanctions against seven Iranian individuals and two organisations over the detention of EU citizens, which the bloc calls a
April 14, 2025
U.S. private equity firm KKR on Monday said it had appointed David Petraeus as the chairman of its Middle East business, and has set up an investment team in the region
April 14, 2025
France, Britain and Germany will be vigilant regarding nuclear disussions between the United States and Iran to ensure they conform with European interests, French Foreign
April 14, 2025
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April 14, 2025
Israeli strike leaves Gaza City’s last fully functioning hospital out of service as offensive escalates
April 13, 2025
Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of earthquakes
April 13, 2025
A new wave of Israeli strikes across Gaza has hit the last major hospital providing critical health care in the territory's north
April 13, 2025
Two Israeli missiles hit a major Gaza hospital on Sunday, putting the emergency department out of action and damaging other structures, medics said, in a strike
April 12, 2025
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has made his first visit to the United Arab Emirates
April 13, 2025
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met his United Arab Emirates counterpart in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, the Syrian leader's office said, on his second visit to a Gulf state as the country's
April 13, 2025
A Palestinian Red Crescent staff member who went missing in late March when 15 humanitarian workers were killed by Israeli fire is being detained by Israeli
April 13, 2025
Judge has ruled legal permanent US resident Mahmoud Khalil can be deported. What comes next?
April 13, 2025
The United States and Saudi Arabia will sign a preliminary agreement to cooperate over the kingdom's ambitions to develop a civil nuclear industry, U.S.
April 13, 2025
Iran and the U.S. said they held "positive" and "constructive" talks in Oman on Saturday and agreed to reconvene next week in a dialogue meant to address Tehran's
April 12, 2025
Russia and Ukraine’s top diplomats have used a high-level conference in Turkey to once again trade accusations of violating a tentative U.S.-brokered deal to pause strikes on energy infrastructure
April 12, 2025
US-Iran negotiators hold ‘constructive’ nuclear talks, will meet again next week
April 11, 2025
Iran and the United States will hold more negotiations next week over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
April 12, 2025
A Louisiana immigration judge is set to decide Friday whether to release Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil one month after he was arrested by federal agents following a deportation order from the Trump administration. CNN's Christina Macfarlane spoke with Khalil's attorney, Ramzi Kassem.
April 11, 2025
Syria's finance minister, foreign minister and central bank chief are planning to attend the annual spring meetings held by the International
April 12, 2025
A devastating assault by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Zamzam Camp for displaced people near al-Fasher has left hundreds dead or wounded, the foreign ministry and aid groups
April 12, 2025
Hamas on Saturday released a video purportedly of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, who has been held in Gaza since he was captured by Palestinian militants on October 7,
April 12, 2025
The head of the U.S.-funded Al Hurra Arabic-language television and online news outlet has terminated most of his staff and curtailed TV programming
April 12, 2025
Israel says it has completed construction of a new security corridor that cuts off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza
April 12, 2025
Oscar Piastri took pole in qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday as his McLaren teammate and standings leader Lando Norris could only manage sixth
April 12, 2025
A United Nations official in Sudan says at least 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, have been killed in a two-day offensive by a notorious paramilitary group
April 12, 2025
Israel’s Gaza offensive pushes hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into an ever-shrinking bubble
April 12, 2025
President Tayyip Erdogan told Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Friday that Turkey will continue its diplomatic efforts to lift international sanctions against Syria,
April 11, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of Gaza City residents have lost their main source of clean water in the past week after supplies from Israel's water
April 11, 2025
Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff that focused on settling the Ukraine conflict concluded late on Friday after more than four hours.
April 11, 2025
A U.S. immigration judge ruled on Friday that Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, allowing President Donald Trump's administration to
April 11, 2025
The president of the Red Cross described the humanitarian situation in Gaza on Friday as "hell on earth" and warned that its field hospital will run out of
April 11, 2025
President Donald Trump wants Iran to know that there will be "all hell to pay" if it does not abandon its nuclear program, his press secretary
April 11, 2025
An immigration judge has ruled that a Palestinian Columbia University graduate student who participated in protests against Israel can be deported
April 12, 2025
Iran and the United States will meet in Oman for the first talks in President Donald Trump’s second term over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program
April 11, 2025
A Louisiana immigration judge says Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil can be deported as a national security risk
April 11, 2025
The U.N. humanitarian agency says it's cutting its 2,600 staff who operate in more than 60 countries by 20% because of “brutal cuts” in funding that have left it with a nearly $60 million shortfall
April 11, 2025
A Louisiana immigration judge says Mahmoud Khalil can be deported
April 11, 2025
UN humanitarian agency will lay off hundreds of staff due to funding crisis
April 11, 2025
President Donald Trump is betting that a beleaguered Iran is so vulnerable following a tumultuous 18 months in the Middle East that it might finally be ready to abandon its nuclear program
April 11, 2025
Members of a 104-year-old Pasadena synagogue that was burned down in the Los Angeles fires in January are getting ready to celebrate Passover
April 10, 2025
Israel’s military says it will fire air force reservists who signed a letter condemning the war in Gaza and claiming it only serves political interests instead of bringing the hostages home
April 11, 2025
Abu Dhabi state oil company ADNOC is in the early stages of considering a bid for investment firm Aethon Energy Management's U.S. natural gas assets, according to a person familiar with
April 11, 2025
Iran said on Friday it was giving high-level nuclear talks with the United States on Saturday "a genuine chance", after President Donald Trump threatened bombing if
April 11, 2025
A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey has renewed a push for her release, saying in court documents that she feared for her life when she was detained by immigration officials on the streets of a Boston suburb
April 11, 2025
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday sought to position his country as a point of stability in an increasingly tumultuous world, saying Turkey was essential for European security and able to span geopolitical divisions over Ukraine, Syria and U
April 11, 2025
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April 11, 2025
Dissent against war grows in Israel’s military as reservists from elite unit join protest movement
April 11, 2025
Mohamed Salah’s trophy-laden spell with Liverpool is set to extend to a decade after the prolific Egypt forward signed a new contract with the Premier League leader after months of uncertainty over his future
April 11, 2025
European Union foreign ministers will target nine Iranians linked to what the bloc calls a policy of state-sponsored hostage-taking in new
April 11, 2025
The United Nations' human rights office warned on Friday that Israel's actions in Gaza are increasingly endangering the existence of Palestinians as a group.
April 11, 2025
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared before a court on Friday for the first time since his high-profile arrest last month,
April 11, 2025
Mohamed Salah to stay at Liverpool beyond this season after signing two-year contract
April 11, 2025
Relatives of hostages in Gaza say they feel the absence of their loved ones acutely during Passover, which commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt and their liberation from slavery
April 11, 2025
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has extended a deadline for a fact-finding committee to produce its report on the killings of Alawites on Syria's coast last month, the deadliest
April 11, 2025
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April 11, 2025
Abbas Araqchi, Iran's seasoned top diplomat, faces one of his most delicate challenges ever this weekend as he prepares to lead talks with the U.S. to secure a new
April 11, 2025
When Lebanon's civil war erupted 50 years ago this month, its national museum became a flashpoint of its capital's deadly frontline, with militants
April 11, 2025
Tesla has officially launched in Saudi Arabia, marking a new chapter in the company’s global expansion after Elon Musk’s troubled relationship with the kingdom
April 10, 2025
A dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators who were arrested at Stanford University last year after they occupied and allegedly caused hundreds of thousands in damage to a campus building are now facing charges
April 11, 2025
South Korea has established diplomatic relations with Syria’s new Islamist government months after longtime leader Bashar Assad was ousted
April 11, 2025
China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao had discussions with his Saudi Arabian and South African counterparts to exchange views on responding to the United States' "reciprocal
April 10, 2025
Israel’s political leaders steering ceasefire talks frustrate mediators
April 10, 2025
Twelve protesters were charged on Thursday with felony vandalism for their actions during a June 2024 pro-Palestinian protest at Stanford University in which
April 10, 2025
Washington's decision not to coordinate with European nations about its negotiations with Iran on Saturday will reduce its leverage and make U.S. and Israeli military
April 10, 2025
Israel has released a Palestinian who took part in an attack when he was 13 and developed schizophrenia in prison as requests for early release were denied
April 10, 2025
Israel has freed 10 Palestinians detained from Gaza, the latest in periodic releases from the thousands of people troops have seized during the military campaign in the territory
April 10, 2025
The U.S. government has submitted a two-page memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio as its main evidence in its deportation case against Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil
April 10, 2025
South Korea and Syria have signed an agreement in Damascus establishing diplomatic relations, the South Korean foreign ministry said on Friday, opening new ties with a traditional
April 10, 2025
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April 10, 2025
Tesla launched operations in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, a sign that Chief Executive Elon Musk has patched up relations with the kingdom and that the oil capital was
April 10, 2025
The Trump administration is working to force Columbia University into a consent decree that would legally bind the school to follow federal guidelines in how it combats antisemitism, the
April 10, 2025
The Trump administration imposed sanctions on Iranian oil trading networks on Thursday, including on a China-based crude oil storage terminal
April 10, 2025
Newly-released memo from Rubio details government’s only evidence in effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil
April 10, 2025
The United States and Iran are due to hold talks on Saturday on Tehran's nuclear program as Britain, France and Germany consider whether to trigger a
April 10, 2025
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