Nearly 300 members of Myanmar's ethnic Rohingya minority landed in Aceh province on Indonesia 's Sumatra island early on Monday after months at sea, a Red Cross official said. Locals immediately...More
The death toll from a suspected gas explosion and fire at a mosque outside the capital of Bangaldesh has risen to 24, with the authorities starting an investigation into the blast, officials said on...More
Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that the UAE-Israel normalisation accord represents a step towards regional peace by preserving Palestinian rights and Israeli security. The...More
NATO said on Thursday that Greece and Turkey had agreed to talks to ease their dispute over eastern Mediterranean borders and energy rights, but Athens swiftly denied any deal on negotiations...More
The Afghan government has accepted a proposal to put mothers' names on their children's birth certificates, in a rare win for women's rights activists in the deeply conservative country. Campaigners...More
Judges will decide on Friday whether to overturn the racial incitement conviction of Dutch politician Geert Wilders, the right-wing populist who led supporters in chanting that they wanted fewer...More
Facebook has banned a politician from India's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the centre of allegations that the social media giant did not apply hate speech rules to members of the...More
Lebanon's army said on Thursday it had found 4.35 tonnes of ammonium nitrate near the entrance to the Beirut port, the site of a huge blast last month caused by a large stockpile of the same highly...More
The Afghan government has despatched a "technical team" to Qatar to prepare for long-delayed peace talks as authorities pressed ahead with the release of Taliban inmates, officials said on Wednesday...More
On Sudan's Tuti Island, where the Blue and White Nile meet, the highest river waters since records began have left people struggling to hold back the rising floods. Wedged between the twin cities of...More
Buried in the rubble of Beirut’s collapsed buildings one month after twin explosions at the city’s port tore through the capital, rescue workers miraculously find signs of life. Prompted by signs of...More
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called on Tuesday for the suspension of lawyers accused of links to terrorism, following protests over the death of a hunger-striking lawyer last week. Ebru Timtik...More
Tunisian lawmakers approved Hichem Mechichi as the country's new prime minister after pressing him for 11 hours over how he will bring the country out of an economic and social crisis that has driven...More
The United States will lift a 33-year arms embargo on Cyprus and deepen its security cooperation with Nicosia, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, prompting an angry response from...More
Lebanon's prime minister designate Mustapha Adib was to kick off talks on Wednesday on forming a crisis government within two weeks to begin enacting desperately needed reforms in the disaster-hit...More
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Iraq on Wednesday for an official visit, the state-run Iraqi news agency reported. Macron, who has been in Lebanon for the past two days, said the trip to...More
Their nation born of revolt against Church and Crown, the French have long cherished provocation and irreverence as part of their revolutionary identity. And with it the freedom to blaspheme. But...More
The trial of the deadly January 2015 terrorist attacks on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, police officers and a kosher supermarket opens in a Paris court Wednesday after five years of...More
Jordanian authorities should immediately release and drop abusive charges against Emad Hajjaj, a cartoonist, says Human Rights Watch. Jordanian authorities arrested Hajjaj on 26 August 2020, for...More
Tensions in the Norwegian capital came to a head when an anti-Islam protester ripped pages from the Koran. Police used tear gas to keep rival groups separated, arresting nearly 30 people. Clashes...More
A few weeks before military officers overthrew Mali's government in a bloodless coup, a series of meetings in the remote centre of the country underscored how much the state's grip on power had...More
The Lebanese presidency will convene consultations with parliamentary blocs on Monday to designate a new prime minister, the presidency said, after the government quit earlier this month following...More
It was a music video meant to depict a young bride's joy: actress Saba Qamar, in a flowing white wedding gown with a golden hem, was twirled by the singer playing her groom in front of the mosaics of...More
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday he was "open" to the Christchurch terrorist serving his life prison sentence in an Australian jail. Australian-born Brenton Tarrant starts the...More
Greek and Turkish warships are testing each other's naval prowess while political leaders in Athens and Ankara probe each other's resolve over a search for hydrocarbon reserves in east Mediterranean...More
Egypt's election commission said on Wednesday it would refer to prosecutors about 54 million people who did not vote in elections earlier this month for two-thirds of the Senate, the upper and mainly...More
According to Germany's Federal Labour Court in Berlin, a headscarf ban for female teachers based on the Neutrality Act is not legal. On Thursday, the court ruled in favour of a Muslim woman who had...More
Forty ultra-conservative lawmakers in Iran want access to Twitter to be banned by law, according to a newspaper report. They want the use of data tunnelling, with which users can gain access to...More
Turkey's former economy czar and the leader of the opposition Deva (Remedy) Party, Ali Babacan, said on Tuesday he had tested positive for coronavirus but was in good health, becoming the most high-...More
The president of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) said on Tuesday it would not take further action on a bid by the United States to trigger snapback sanctions against Iran. "There is no...More
In the winter of 1964, Makhluf Abu Kassem was born in this agricultural community newly created at the far end of Egypt's Fayoum oasis. His parents were among the village's first settlers, moving...More
Greece and Turkey told German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Tuesday that they did not want to settle their dispute over the eastern Mediterranean with military means, the minister said, saying there...More
The owner of an abandoned ship which transported thousands of tons of explosive ammonium nitrate to the Lebanese capital of Beirut ahead of the deadly August 4 blast there reportedly has financial...More
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah threw his support on Monday behind the government in seeking financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund, but warned that the terms should be...More
Pakistan has invited key Taliban negotiators to its capital to push for peace talks to end the conflict in neighbouring Afghanistan, Islamabad's foreign minister said on Monday. The Taliban and the...More
Bangladesh has designed a new plan to relocate tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from crowded mainland camps to an offshore island in the Bay of Bengal, a senior official said on Monday. The...More
The leader of India's main opposition Congress party offered to resign on Monday, domestic media said, after almost two dozen top leaders called for better decision-making in the party, which has...More
The 10 fire-fighters who received the call shortly before 6 p.m. – a big fire at the nearby port of Beirut – could not know what awaited them. The brigade of nine men and one woman could not know...More
The president of Sicily has issued a decree ordering the mass expulsion of migrants from the island because of novel coronavirus contagion risks. "Sicily cannot be invaded, while Europe is turning a...More
The Israeli army said on Monday that it had again hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip overnight, in retaliation for incendiary balloon and rocket attacks launched from the Palestinian enclave. Israel...More
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday ordered another ancient Orthodox church that became a mosque and then a popular Istanbul museum to be turned back into a place of Muslim worship. The...More
The junta that seized power in Mali wants a military-led transitional body to rule for three years, and has accepted that ousted president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita return home, sources in a visiting...More
A suspected attack on a pipeline in Syria caused a nationwide blackout overnight, the state news agency quoted authorities as saying on Monday. According to SANA, the electricity minister said a...More
The Australian white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslims in last year's New Zealand mosques shooting showed no emotion as his sentencing hearing opened Monday with horrific details of an atrocity...More
Israeli archaeologists announced on Monday the discovery of a trove of early Islamic gold coins found during recent salvage excavations near the central city of Yavne. The collection of 425 complete...More
Saudi Arabia’s price for normalising relations with Israel is the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, a senior member of the Saudi royal family reaffirmed on...More
The junta that deposed Mali's president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, in a coup this week will install a transitional president who may be "either a civilian or a soldier", said the junta's spokesman on...More
Still reeling from a deadly port blast that ravaged their Beirut homes and businesses, Lebanese wearily braced themselves for a new coronavirus lockdown due to start on Friday. “What now? On top of...More
Cyprus said on Tuesday it was willing to engage with all its neighbours on defining maritime boundaries, amid a tense stand-off with Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean over jurisdiction in the...More
Authorities in Indonesia's capital are experimenting with some shock tactics to fight coronavirus, by displaying an empty coffin at a busy intersection as a reminder of the dangers of the highly...More
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi left Baghdad on an official visit to the United States on Tuesday, his first trip abroad since he took office in May. Al-Kadhimi will meet with U.S. President...More
More than a dozen rockets hit residential and diplomatic areas of Kabul on Tuesday, wounding 10 people including children, the Interior Ministry said. The Islamic State extremist group claimed...More
The Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has burned to the ground. The situation is dire, but it was already grave before fire swept through Europe's largest and most overcrowded refugee camp.
