Four times a week, an Iraqi Airways Boeing 747 leaves Baghdad Airport for Minsk, the capital of Belarus, with hundreds of Iraqis on board. The passengers are not going to one of Europe's newfound tourist destinations but are refugees seeking shelter (...)
Tunisian President Kais Saied suspended parliament and immunity for MPs and fired the government this week, citing "imminent danger" to the country.
The move underlined his reputation as an unknown quantity and a political outsider whose success in (...)
The UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting that convened on 8 July failed to adopt the draft resolution that Tunisia had tabled on behalf of Egypt and Sudan. The draft called on Ethiopia to negotiate in good faith with the two downstream countries, and (...)
Negotiations are in progress in New York over a proposed Security Council resolution calling on all parties in the dispute over Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam (GERD) to return to the negotiating table. The goal would be to hammer out a binding (...)
Egypt and the US have started work on creating a path to jumpstart negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis in an effort to reinforce calm in the region and defuse the recent rising tensions.
The current regional and international (...)
Austria's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said on Tuesday that "no one should play with fire" in the current stage of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute.
In statements to Egyptian talk show "On my responsibility" on Sada (...)
In a meeting on Tuesday, Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell tackled the latest developments in several issues of mutual concerns, including the (...)
During the Diplomacy Forum held in the Turkish Mediterranean coastal town of Antalya last month, Afghan Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar expressed his government's appreciation for Turkey's offer to assume responsibility for securing Kabul (...)
High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has expressed concern over the situation regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), state-owned MENA news agency reported.
Borrell made (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry held a meeting, on Tuesday, with Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and European Security Policy.
The meeting came as part of Shoukry's ongoing visit to (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry met, on Sunday evening in Brussels, with his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid.
During the meeting, Shoukry noted the importance of removing the stalemate between the Palestinian and Israeli sides, in (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Monday that the European Union may take measures that affirm its dissatisfaction with Ethiopia's practices and unilateral moves with regards to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) issue.
Shoukry (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry delivered on Monday a message from President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to President of the European Council Charles Michel in a bilateral meeting in Brussels.
Shoukry delivered El-Sisi's greetings to Michel and (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry has met with European Union (EU) foreign ministers to discuss in depth aspects of relations between the two sides.
During the meeting, the two sides also exchanged views on a number of regional (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed cooperation in the fields of emigration and asylum as he met on Monday with European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson in Brussels.
Shoukry and Johansson discussed means to support (...)
Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry affirmed to his Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid, on Sunday the need to move urgently towards breaking the current stalemate between the Palestinians and Israel.
The meeting came on the sidelines of Shoukry's (...)
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry arrived in the Belgian capital, Brussels, on Sunday to deliver a message from President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to the President of the European Council, Charles Michel.
Ahmed Hafez, Spokesperson for (...)
Rhetoric has been used in Iraq to gain broader influence in local politics and to focus attention on special interests. The practice has been instrumental in avoiding commitment to a national agenda and in fuelling discussion on communal aspects of (...)
Turkey will carry on exploring for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday in comments that may revive tensions with the European Union and Greece amid attempts to repair their frayed ties.
Turkey is at odds (...)
Respect LGBT rights or leave the European Union, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told his Hungarian counterpart as the bloc's leaders confronted Viktor Orban over a law that bans schools from using materials seen as promoting homosexuality.
Several (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that Europe is 'on thin ice'' in its battle against the coronavirus, as the highly contagious delta variant threatens to undo progress made in reducing infections.
In what may be her last government (...)
At the height of Europe's vaccine supply crisis in March, Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) single-dose COVID-19 vaccine was touted as a game-changer. But two months into its rollout, the shot has the lowest uptake of all four approved vaccines.
Supply (...)
France and Germany proposed on Wednesday a European Union summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to improve relations, two diplomats said, potentially paving the way for the first such meeting since 2014.
Such an event would follow US (...)
Even in the corridors of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), one can hear grumbles echoing what the country's opposition parties are saying out loud: that Turkey's foreign policy is confused and contradictory.
If there is one (...)
Is it simply the nature of this era, the fact that the event epitomised a kind of political essence, or that the mad global media not only covers news but also makes it? Whatever it is, during US President Joe Biden's first tour abroad, the world (...)
