Lina Ghotmeh has pegged her career on sustainable construction. The French- Lebanese architect wants to see her industry transformed by drastically reducing the use of concrete – a major CO2...More
Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu's conservative Likud party on Friday signed its first coalition deal with the Jewish Power party with the far-right party leader Itamar Ben-Gvir...More
Despondent Sunday anglers watch crestfallen as a trawler winches an enormous net out of the waters of the Bosphorus. "Clear off!" they shout from the shore, impatient to get their hooks back into the...More
Short video platform TikTok said on Wednesday it was on high alert for content that violates its guidelines in Malaysia after authorities warned of a rise in ethnic tension on social media following...More
Russia has pushed for years for reconciliation between its ally, the Syrian government, and Turkey , which stood on opposing sides in Syria's civil war. Recent weeks saw the first small signs of...More
Moroccan authorities on Monday arrested former human rights minister and lawyer Mohammed Ziane, the same day an appeals court upheld an initial judgment of three years' imprisonment, the prosecutor's...More
Saudi Arabia stunned Lionel Messi's Argentina on Tuesday, beating the two-time winners 2-1 in one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history. Salem Al-Dawsari hit a stunning winner to sink the red-...More
The United Nations' top rights body will hold an urgent meeting this week to consider launching an international investigation into the deadly crackdown on mass protests rocking Iran . The UN Human...More
Arab soccer fans at the first World Cup in the Middle East are shunning Israeli journalists in Qatar trying to interview them, illustrating challenges facing wider "warm peace" ambitions two years...More
Iran 's World Cup team declined to sing their anthem before their opening World Cup match on Monday in a sign of support for mass protests back home after many fans accused the squad of siding with a...More
Rescuers searched on Tuesday for survivors buried under rubble after a strong earthquake on Indonesia 's main island of Java killed 162 people, injured hundreds and left more feared trapped in...More
Taking selfies from the stands and sitting on the grassy football pitch, thousands of migrant workers gathered in a Doha stadium to watch the opening match of the first World Cup in the Middle East...More
Iranian captain Ehsan Hajsafi said his team sympathised with anti-government protests at home and his team should be a voice for the oppressed at a press conference in Qatar a day ahead of the...More
Turkey announced on Sunday it had carried out air strikes against the bases of outlawed Kurdish militants across northern Syria and Iraq , which it said were being used to launch "terrorist" attacks...More
Iran has arrested two prominent actors who expressed solidarity with the protest movement and removed their headscarves in public in an apparent act of defiance against the regime, state media...More
Over 100 Rohingya Muslims travelling in a wooden boat have landed on an Indonesian beach, the second group in as many days to arrive in the island nation's northernmost province of Aceh. The group of...More
Iran's players are free to express themselves at the World Cup, coach Carlos Queiroz said on Tuesday, as the country was gripped by fresh anti-government protests. Iranians have taken to the streets...More
When Germany kick off their Qatar World Cup campaign against Japan next week, the projector screens at Berlin's Fargo football bar will be in their unusual rolled-up position. The bar, which tailors...More
The European Union on Monday slapped additional sanctions on Iran , targeting 29 individuals and three organisations, in response to what it has condemned as Tehran's widespread use of force against...More
Missiles fired from Iran targeted bases of an exiled Iranian Kurdish opposition group in neighbouring Iraq on Monday, killing at least one person and wounding eight, local officials said. It was the...More
The United States said on Monday it was increasing its reward for information about key leaders of Somalia's Al-Shabab to $10 million apiece, a move that follows a spate of deadly attacks by the...More
Israel will not cooperate with any external investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Monday. Media reported that the U.S...More
Home to gleaming skyscrapers and upmarket shopping malls, 2022 FIFA World Cup host Qatar is also a conservative Muslim country deeply attached to its customs and traditions . Here are some of the...More
Turkey's interior minister accused the Kurdistan's Workers' Party (PKK) on Monday of responsibility for a bombing in a busy Istanbul street that killed six people and wounded scores, saying a suspect...More
Istanbul's popular mayor is due back in court on Friday for the latest instalment of a highly controversial trial that could see him banned from politics over a remark he made after beating President...More
The Ocean Viking NGO ship carrying over 200 migrants r escued in the Mediterranean docked on Friday at the southern French port of Toulon after being rejected by Italy, images on BFM TV showed. The...More
The Taliban have banned Afghan women from entering the capital's public parks and funfairs, just months after ordering access to be segregated by gender. The new rule, introduced this week, further...More
The United Arab Emirates and Egypt agreed on Tuesday to develop one of the world's largest wind farms in a deal struck on the sidelines of the UN's COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh. The 10-...More
Saudi Arabia has detained an American woman who had publicly accused her Saudi ex-husband of trapping their young daughter in the kingdom under so-called guardianship laws, an advocacy group said...More
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he will raise the case of Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abdel Fattah with Egypt's leadership during the COP27 climate summit t hat opened on Sunday...More
Iranian security forces opened fire with live ammunition and tear gas on demonstrators in the north-western city of Marivan in Kurdistan Province on Sunday, eyewitnesses reported. The demonstrators...More
Pope Francis said on Sunday the fight for women's rights was a "continuous struggle", and condemned male chauvinism as deadly for humanity and female genital mutilation as a crime that must be...More
A German-flagged charity vessel refused to leave the Sicilian port of Catania on Sunday, after Italian authorities said not all the migrants it was carrying could disembark, the NGO responsible for...More
A major UN climate conference is underway in Egypt amid geopolitical tensions and crises that have dimmed expectations for breakthroughs on reducing global warming. The two-week gathering, known as...More
Iranians staged new protests on Tuesday to denounce the country's theocratic regime in defiance of a crackdown that has seen prominent figures arrested and some even face the death penalty. Iran has...More
With customers unable to reach his shop for the past two weeks because of an Israeli-enforced lockdown, Abdelaziz al-Qadi's small convenience store in the West Bank city of Nablus has been left dark...More
Israel's former premier Benjamin Netanyahu was poised to return to power, saying on Wednesday that his right-wing camp was on the cusp of a resounding election win. With roughly 70% of votes counted...More
Before Bahrain established the Gulf's first church in the 1930s, priests would visit from Iraq to perform services for a small Catholic community. Now, its ranks swollen by foreign workers, mostly...More
The pharaohs worshipped it as a god, the eternal bringer of life. But the clock is ticking on the Nile. Climate change, pollution and exploitation by man are putting existential pressure on the world...More
Michel Aoun, the 89-year-old Christian president who presided over Lebanon's cataclysmic financial meltdown and the deadly Beirut port blast, vacated the presidential palace on Sunday, leaving a void...More
Germany and the European Union are examining whether to classify Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Sunday. "I made it clear last week...More
An American woman who grew up on a farm in Kansas, converted to Islam and joined the Islamic State in Syria, where she led an all-female military battalion, is to be sentenced Tuesday for providing...More
Disillusionment with politics among Palestinian citizens could help determine next week's election in Israel where former premier Benjamin Netanyahu is bidding to return to power, just a year after...More
Iran has summoned German Ambassador Hans-Udo Muzel to discuss claims that his country is supporting anti-government protests in the Islamic Republic, state news agency IRNA reports. Tehran accuses...More
Iraqi lawmakers approved a new government on Thursday ending more than a year of deadlock , but still faces many challenges. Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani,52, who previously served as Iraq '...More
The U.N. Security Council called for a revival of U.N-led negotiations on the disputed Western Sahara in a resolution adopted on Thursday that expressed “deep concern” at the breakdown of the 1991...More
Tens of thousands of mourners attended the funeral on Thursday of a Pakistani journalist shot dead by police in Kenya after he fled arrest in his home country. Arshad Sharif, a strident critic of...More
Iran's president on Thursday claimed "riots" sparked by Mahsa Amini's death paved the way for "terrorist" attacks, a day after a gunman killed at least 15 people at a Muslim shrine. The bloody attack...More
A United Nations agency warned on Wednesday that more Palestinians living in crisis-torn Lebanon have fallen deeper into poverty , spelling a "dramatic humanitarian crisis". For three years Lebanon...More
Iranian security forces opened fire on protesters who massed in their thousands on Wednesday in Mahsa Amini’s hometown to mark 40 days since her death, a human rights group said. “Security forces...More
A Uighur organisation and a human rights group are taking the U.K. government to court to challenge Britain's failure to block the import of cotton products associated with forced labour and other...More
The white tents that Austria is using to house asylum seekers in a handful of towns have drawn rebuke from refugees ' defenders and critics alike, while stirring memories of the 2015 migrant crisis...More
Playing football in a hijab: founded in 2018, the London-based football club Sisterhood FC offers Muslim women the opportunity to combine their sporting passion and their religious beliefs. By Claudia Dehn and Ayse Tasci-Steinbach
