Turkey on Thursday rejected accusations by French President Emmanuel Macron that Ankara was violating the sovereignty of EU countries in the eastern Mediterranean. Macron called for Turkey to be "...More
France 's top diplomat Jean-Yves Le Drian scolded Lebanon's leadership on Thursday for failing to take the measures he said are necessary to save the country from collapse . Lebanon is in the midst...More
The pandemic will exact a heavy toll on Arab countries, causing an economic contraction of 5.7% this year, pushing millions into poverty and compounding the suffering of those affected by armed...More
The United Nations has said it is "utterly shocked and horrified" by the killing of five aid workers by unknown armed groups in north-eastern Nigeria . "They were committed humanitarians who devoted...More
The House on Wednesday voted to repeal the Trump administration's travel ban and further restrict the president's power to limit entry to the US, a symbolic victory for Muslim American and civil...More
Spanish authorities searched on Wednesday for a boat reportedly carrying around 60 migrants from western Africa to Spain 's Canary Islands, a perilous Atlantic Ocean route that is increasingly...More
A Malaysian judge on Wednesday overturned a decision to cane 27 Rohingya refugees for entering the country illegally and slammed the "inhumane" sentence, their lawyer said, following an outcry from...More
Browse through Arabic-language social media pages and you could walk away thinking COVID-19 is an American hoax, isn't deadly and can be swiftly cured with a garlic clove. Arabic pages on Facebook,...More
Fraught relations with Turkey could improve if Ankara halts "provocations", Germany said on Tuesday, referring to what the EU considers illegal Turkish oil drilling in the Mediterranean. "Regarding...More
China said on Tuesday that it would take unspecified "necessary measures" after the US government imposed trade sanctions on 11 companies it says are implicated in human rights abuses in China's...More
A group of Rohingya who survived a perilous sea voyage to Malaysia are set to be caned for entering the country illegally, activists said on Tuesday, decrying the "barbaric" sentence. Hundreds of...More
More than one in five people in Delhi have been infected with the coronavirus , according to a study released on Tuesday, indicating that most cases in the Indian capital region have gone undetected...More
Pakistan has issued a final warning to Chinese-owned social media app TikTok to clamp down on what it called "immoral, obscene and vulgar" content on the video-sharing platform. TikTok has become a...More
Myanmar 's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, will be a candidate in this November's general election, a spokesman for her National League for Democracy party said on Tuesday. NLD spokesman Zaw Myint Maung...More
Sudan 's former president Omar al-Bashir, ousted amid a popular pro-democracy uprising last year , went on trial on Tuesday over the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades...More
Egypt's parliament on Monday greenlighted a possible deployment of troops beyond its borders, after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi spoke of potential military operations in neighbouring Libya ...More
This year's hajj, which has been scaled back dramatically to include only around 1,000 Muslim pilgrims as Saudi Arabia battles a coronavirus surge, will begin on 29 July, authorities said on Monday...More
Saudi Arabia 's 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has been admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, state news agency SPA said on...More
Britain on Sunday accused Beijing of "gross, egregious human rights abuses" over its "deeply troubling" treatment of ethnic and religious minorities in China's western Xinjiang region. Rights groups...More
A social media campaign started by three Moroccan friends has emboldened hundreds of "revenge porn" victims to share their experiences, raising awareness about online abuse and challenging taboos...More
Hundreds of protesters on Thursday forced their way into an oil production site in southern Tunisia, in the latest demonstration to demand jobs and development in the marginalised region...More
India crossed 1 million coronavirus cases on Friday, third only to the United States and Brazil, prompting concerns about its readiness to confront an inevitable surge that could overwhelm hospitals...More
Israel's government said on Friday it was imposing weekend restrictions to limit the spiralling spread of coronavirus in the hope of avoiding a general lockdown further along the line. From 5:00pm...More
Egypt's president said on Thursday that his country "will not stand idle" against threats to the national security of Egypt and Arab countries, in a meeting with tribal leaders from eastern Libya...More
An Istanbul court on Thursday sentenced Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yucel, in absentia, to two years and nine months in jail on charges of spreading propaganda for the banned Kurdistan Workers'...More
Every night in Bangalore, Parvez Shaikh's 18-month-old son wakes up in tears, calling for his mother who is in the United States – one among hundreds of families staring at an uncertain future after...More
As coronavirus restrictions ease, business is rebounding in Cairo’s cafes, restaurants and shops. In the evenings, the sounds of street vendors plying their wares blends with the honking of horns, as...More
Egypt has started offering reusable cotton face masks at around $50 cents each alongside the food items provided in its state subsidy programme, as it seeks to make protective gear more widely...More
Turkey marked the fourth anniversary of an attempted 2016 military coup on Wednesday with ceremonies and memorial events for the people who died in the failed effort to overthrow the government that...More
Turkey's Hagia Sophia could open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian icons will remain, religious officials said on Tuesday, after a court ruling paved the way for it to become a...More
A new law in Pakistan -administered Kashmir that envisages castrating paedophiles, either chemically or surgically, has triggered a debate on maintaining a balance between creating deterrence for a...More
A Malian Islamist rebel accused of being central to the "persecution" of residents of Timbuktu and the destruction of the city's holy grounds refused to enter a plea on Tuesday as his lawyers argued...More
It's been a tough month for religious minorities in Pakistan, and observers warn of even tougher times ahead as Prime Minister Imran Khan vacillates between trying to forge a pluralistic nation and...More
Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh resigned on Wednesday, according to two official sources who did not want to be named, after a row with the Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party. Fakhfakh, who is...More
A car bomb claimed by the Taliban exploded on Monday near the offices of Afghanistan's intelligence agency in the north of the country, wounding dozens of people, officials said. The insurgents...More
A member of staff at the German government press office suspected of working for Egyptian intelligence did not have access to sensitive information, a German government spokeswoman said last Friday...More
An Australian man who pleaded guilty to killing 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's worst mass shooting in 2019 has decided to represent himself a month ahead of the sentencing hearing, the court...More
Bosnian Muslims marked the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre on Saturday, the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II, with the memorial ceremony sharply reduced as a result of...More
Indonesian doctor Susana Somali and her staff cut tightly-bound plastic ropes off dozens of whimpering dogs rescued from the butcher's block after being sold or abandoned during the coronavirus...More
Their accounts are similar. The girls and women describe meeting the young man – a former student at Egypt's most elite university – in person and online, followed by deceit, then escalating sexual...More
A UN Security Council resolution passed on Saturday that leaves only one of two border crossings open for aid deliveries from Turkey into rebel-held northwestern Syria will cost lives and intensify...More
With Lebanon plunged into an unprecedented financial crisis that has seen the value of the country’s currency collapse, some have switched to swapping goods and services for food and other essentials...More
Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia is to re-open for Muslim worship as a mosque after an almost nine-decade hiatus, in the latest historic tussle with Christianity over religious sites. The UNESCO World...More
Sudan will permit non-Muslims to consume alcohol and the country will strengthen women's rights, including banning female genital mutilation (FGM), its justice minister said late on Saturday. This...More
Iraqi lawmaker Ghida Kambash died Friday after contracting the novel coronavirus, parliament announced, its first member to succumb to the virus as its spread ramps up across the country. The 46-year...More
Lebanon's economic crisis is getting out of hand, the UN rights chief warned on Friday, calling for urgent internal reforms coupled with international support to prevent further mayhem. Michelle...More
China said on Friday it will impose tit-for-tat measures after the United States slapped sanctions on Chinese officials for their involvement in a crackdown on Muslim minorities, raising tensions...More
Relatives of the Bosnian Muslims killed in the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II are getting ready to mark 25 years since the Srebrenica massacre on Saturday, but for many Serbs the...More
Turkey's highest administrative court on Friday issued a ruling that paves the way for the government to convert Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia – a former cathedral-turned-mosque that now serves as a...More
A Turkish court is set to rule on Friday on a 1934 presidential decree converting Istanbul's Hagia Sophia into a museum. Two Turkish officials have said they expect the decree to be annulled, paving...More
An Indonesian politician is under fire for ordering female civil servants to wear face veils once a week in what he defended as a bid to guard against the coronavirus. But critics said the loose...More
Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have extended authorisation for cross-border humanitarian aid in Syria for a year. Germany and Belgium, two of the...More
You might expect the advent of a long, bleak winter to bring everything to a standstill in Kashmir, but thanks to ingenious portable earthenware heating pots – kangdi – encased in wicker baskets, people can still go about their business. By Sugato Mukherjee
