A wildfire that reached the compound of a coal-fueled power plant in southwest Turkey and forced nearby residents to flee in boats and cars was contained on Thursday after raging for some 11 hours, officials and media reports said.
Strong winds (...)
The head of the World Health Organization called Wednesday for a moratorium on administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines as a way to help ensure that doses are available in countries where few people have received their first shots.
WHO (...)
Israel's defense minister warned Thursday that his country is prepared to strike Iran, issuing the threat against the Islamic Republic after a fatal drone strike on a oil tanker at sea that his nation blamed on Tehran.
The comments by Benny Gantz (...)
Israel summoned Wednesday ambassadors of U.N. Security Council member states and urged for action against Iran following last week's drone strike off the coast of Oman on a merchant vessel linked to an Israeli billionaire.
A joint statement by the (...)
The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) urged "maximum restraint" along the Lebanese-Israeli border on Wednesday after Israel had announced that missile attacks were launched from Lebanon into its territory.
A missile exploded in an open site, (...)
The hijackers who seized a vessel off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman left the targeted ship on Wednesday, the British navy reported, without elaborating.
The British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (...)
Three rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory and the army fired back, the military said. There was no immediate information on damage or injuries.
The announcement came after sirens sounded in northern Israel on Wednesday warning of (...)
I disagree with those who believe the decision by several Arab governments to normalise relations with Israel reflects changes that have occurred in Arab culture in recent years. Some Arab officials have indeed described Israel as a peace-loving (...)
Some weeks ago, after over a decade of arctic temperatures between Ankara and Tel Aviv, the former began to grope for ways to sidle up to the latter. This was prompted at least in part by the fact that Israel was developing much closer relations (...)
Throughout history, any story ever written, inevitably features a villain. It is almost imperative for the dramatic effect, as the teller requires to highlight his theme.
Movies have wisely made good use of villain figures, even at the cost of (...)
The West is wary of tensions between Iran and Israel, which at the very least could ruin nuclear negotiations between Tehran and the 5 + 1 countries. That is why Washington and European capitals took their time to respond to an attack on an oil (...)
Many films have been made about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the 1948 Nakba, documentaries especially. With few exceptions, until the early 1990s they were produced by Palestinian or Arab companies. That is because the Palestinian cause (...)
Cairo and Khartoum, both still after a diplomatic solution to the crisis over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), this week welcomed an Algerian attempt at mediation intended to bridge the differences between the two capitals and Addis Ababa (...)
Britain and Iran issued warnings to each other's diplomats Monday as tensions escalated over a recent attack on an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea.
Britain began the day by summoning Iran's ambassador, Mohsen Baharvand, to the Foreign, Commonwealth (...)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has asserted Egypt's unwavering support of the Palestinian cause and its rejection of anything that could undermine Jerusalem's Arab, Islamic and Christian identity, violate the city's sacred places, or change (...)
The United States and the United Kingdom joined Israel on Sunday in alleging Iran carried out a fatal drone strike on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, putting further pressure on Tehran as it denied being involved in the (...)
Asian countries from Australia to Japan and the Philippines announced tighter COVID-19 restrictions on Friday, as they battle worsening coronavirus outbreaks, driven by the more contagious Delta variant.
Detected in some 96 countries, the Delta (...)
The United States started a pitcher who was Tampa Bay's No. 12 prospect before he was dealt to Minnesota last week in the Nelson Cruz trade.
Israel went with a 30-year-old who has never pitched above Double-A and brought in the director of music (...)
نشرت صحيفة ها آرتس العبرية تقريرا سلطت خلاله الضوء على تطورات أزمة سد النهضة عقب إعلان إثيوبيا الانتهاء من الملء الثاني والخيارات المتاحة أمام مصر والسودان خلال الفترة المقبلة.
وقال التقرير الذي ترجمته "بوابة الحرية والعدالة": "عندما أعلنت إثيوبيا (...)
I remember Albert Einstein's definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I've been thinking about this quote in relation to the recent bizarre behavior of all the parties involved in the (...)
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused the Israeli military of carrying out attacks that "apparently amount to war crimes" during an 11-day war against Hamas in May.
The international human rights organization issued its conclusions after (...)
On 26 July 1956, president Gamal Abdel- Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal. In his annual address to the nation from Manshiya Square in Alexandria, he said that the famous canal would now become Egypt's exclusive property. Until that point, Egypt (...)
The recent spike in tensions between Israel and the Lebanese Shia group Hizbullah have led some political analysts to notch up their forecasts of a war between the two to "impending".
They base their predictions on the broader area of friction (...)
Israel has been reinstated to the African Union two decades after it was ousted from the 55-nation pan-African bloc shortly after the union was formed in 2002 under pressure from the then Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi.
Today Israel celebrates what (...)
The Palestinian Ministry of Works, in cooperation with Egyptian technical and engineering teams, will soon complete removing the rubble from the latest Israeli military onslaught on the Gaza Strip (10-11 May). This is a record time compared to (...)
