New U.S. sanctions against Iranian supreme leader and foreign minister have closed off diplomacy, Iran announced on Tuesday. Tehran blamed Washington for abandoning the only route to peace just days after the two foes came within minutes of (...)
The United States will continue with its maximum pressure campaign against Iran until Tehran changes its behaviour, and will look for ways to impose even more sanctions, U.S. disarmament ambassador Robert Wood told Reuters on Tuesday.
"We will look (...)
As soon as news broke of the sudden death of ousted president Mohamed Morsi during a court hearing on 17 June, Brotherhood officials and activists in Europe, Turkey and some Gulf countries, as well as human rights organisations opposed to the (...)
As soon as news broke of the sudden death of ousted president Mohamed Morsi during a court hearing on 17 June, Brotherhood officials and activists in Europe, Turkey and some Gulf countries, as well as human rights organisations opposed to the (...)
Facebook revealed plans on Tuesday to launch a concurrency called Libra, the latest development in its effort to expand beyond social networking and move into e-commerce and global payments.
Facebook has linked with 28 partners in a Geneva-based (...)
A World Health Organization panel decided not to declare an international emergency over Congo's Ebola outbreak despite its spread to Uganda this week, concluding such a declaration could cause too much economic harm.
Congo's epidemic is the second (...)
Washington has announced that a three-way meeting between the US, Russia and Israel will be held at the end of June to discuss the threats posed by Iran and the situation in Syria to the wider Middle East.
The meeting will also address challenges in (...)
Up to 2 million refugees could flee to Turkey if fighting intensifies in north western Syria as aid funds run dangerously low, the United Nations said on Monday.
Syria's Russian-backed military has been pressing an assault on rebels in their last (...)
Roughly a quarter of Ebola infections in eastern Congo are estimated to be going undetected or found too late, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said on Thursday.
Some 2,025 cases and 1,357 deaths have been recorded since the epidemic began (...)
Former president Hosni Mubarak appeared in a surprise interview on Sunday with Kuwaiti TV host Fajr Al-Said. In the interview, the first since he was forced out of office in February 2011, Mubarak spoke about the “Deal of the Century”, the threat (...)
On 26 April every year, the world marks World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, with the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a specialised agency of the United Nations system, designating a different theme each year.
The (...)
Former president Hosni Mubarak appeared in a surprise interview on Sunday with Kuwaiti TV host Fajr Al-Said. In the interview, Mubarak spoke about the “Deal of the Century”, the threat posed by Iran, and gave a candid assessment of Israeli Prime (...)
Doubts about vaccines have spread across social media like a disease and false information that “kills people” should be taken down by the companies running digital platforms, the head of global vaccine alliance Gavi said on Tuesday
Speaking at a (...)
The Russian army has said the Syrian Army forces had ceased fire “unilaterally” in north western Idlib province, where the UN fears a “humanitarian catastrophe”.
“From 00:00 on 18 May, Syrian armed forces unilaterally ceased fire in the Idlib (...)
The heads of some international sports federations complained this month that Tokyo Olympic organizers were cutting too deeply to save money.
One said the cost reductions could make venues look cheap, reminding of deep, last-minute budget slashing (...)
Mauritania on Tuesday named the following 23-man squad for next month's Africa Cup of Nations finals in Egypt:
Goalkeepers: Suleiman Brahim (FC Nouadhibou), Namori Diaw (ASC Kedia), Babacar Diop (AS Police)
Defenders: Aly Abeid (Alcorcon), Abdoul Ba (...)
Britain appointed its first international ambassador for human rights on Monday to support its work in the United Nations and promote its campaigns around the world.
Rita French will be based in Geneva and will focus on issues including modern (...)
Artificial intelligence conjures fears of job loss and privacy concerns — not to mention sci-fi dystopias. But machine learning can also help us save energy and make renewables better.Artificial intelligence (AI) is infiltrating every corner of our (...)
The head of an international organization who last year arranged a historic handshake between parliamentarians from North and South Korea said on Thursday he saw prospects for a breakthrough in talks on normalizing relations.
“I am engaged in (...)
The United States accused China earlier this week of putting over a million minority Muslims in "concentration camps," in some of the strongest US condemnation to date of what it calls Beijing's mass detention of mostly Muslim Uighur minority and (...)
Even if the emphasis is placed on the opposition's mistakes since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution in 2011, this does not mean that the regime led by Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is innocent or cannot be replaced. Criticising the (...)
The 12th round of the Astana Talks on Syria concluded in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan on 26 April. However, their only real outcome was that the sponsoring countries agreed to hold a next meeting in Nur-Sultan in July, adding to the sense of the (...)
The Israeli elections concluded with expected results, giving Binyamin Netanyahu another term that may be marred by some legal wrangling, or even a verdict against him. The fact is, the radical right will rule Israel in the coming phase; the (...)
The 12th round of the Astana meetings on the Syrian crisis is in the news this month, and the Turkish authorities have said that five more countries, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Germany and China, can participate in the talks scheduled for 25-26 April in (...)
أعلن الفريق مهاب مميش، رئيس هيئة قناة السويس ورئيس الهيئة العامة الاقتصادية لمنطقة القناة، أن قناة السويس شهدت اليوم الإثنين، عبور 53 سفينة، بحمولة 3.5 مليون طن سفن حاويات من الاتجاهين.
وكشف تقرير رسمى من هيئة قناة السويس، أن قافلة الشمال شهدت عبور (...)
