Russian police arrested more than 3,000 people Saturday in nationwide protests demanding the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin's most prominent foe, according to a group that counts political detentions.
The protests in scores (...)
Police in Moscow on Saturday began detaining people ahead of a rally in the Russian capital in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, a Reuters reporter said.
The rally is due to start at 1100 GMT.
Several hundred people had gathered just (...)
Palestinians expect to receive a first batch of COVID-19 vaccine by the weekend, officials said on Tuesday - at a time when more than a quarter of their Israeli neighbours have already been inoculated.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has ordered (...)
Western nations told Russia to immediately free detained Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Monday, a day after he was detained at a Moscow airport after flying home for the first time since he was poisoned last summer.
Russia quickly rejected calls (...)
A Russian judge on Monday ruled that Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny should be held in custody for 30 days until Feb. 15, his spokeswoman said, a day after he was detained upon his arrival in Moscow.
"The court arrested Navalny for 30 days. Until (...)
Police detained prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on arrival at a Moscow airport on Sunday after he flew home to Russia from Germany for the first time since he was poisoned last summer.
The move, which could see Navalny jailed for 3.5 years (...)
Russia announced on Friday it was pulling out of the Open Skies treaty, saying that the pact, which allows unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, had been seriously compromised by the withdrawal of the United States.
The move, announced (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday hosted his counterparts from Armenia and Azerbaijan to discuss reopening transport routes in the region that have been paralyzed for nearly three decades amid a conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
The talks (...)
When thousands of people across the European Union began rolling up their sleeves last month to get a coronavirus vaccination shot, one corner of the continent was left behind, feeling isolated and abandoned: the Balkans.
Balkan nations have (...)
2020 has not been, by all accounts, an ordinary year in human history. There were no global, regional or economic disasters. There was no cold war that made the international order descend into chaos. To the whole world's great surprise, it was a (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi directed the Tahya Misr (Long Live Egypt) Fund to support the provision of the coronavirus vaccine to the highly-prioritised eligible categories, a statement by the Egyptian presidency said.
Such prioritised (...)
Blue and gold fireworks soared into the sky above the Sydney Opera House as they do every year, but the harbour below was a ghost town, a fittingly creepy send-off for a year that will not be missed.
No light show will illuminate Beijing from the (...)
Russia said late on Sunday it had sent more military police to an area in northern Syria where fighters backed by Turkey have clashed with Kurdish forces near a strategic highway patrolled by Russian and Turkish troops.
The deployment comes ahead of (...)
في عيد الحب 2020 قرر« دينيس كازانتسيف » الملازم بالجيش الروسي أن يقوم بطلب يد خطيبته « ألكسندرا كوبيتوفا » للزواج، ولكن بطريقته الخاصة، حيث فاجأ « دينيس » خطيبته بطلب الزواج منها واتفق مع أصدقائه بترتيب 16 دبابة على شكل قلب لتحيط بهم في لحظة معينة (...)
Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar warned on Sunday that the forces of Khalifa Haftar and their supporters based in eastern Libya would be viewed as "legitimate targets" if they attempted to attack Turkish forces in the region.
Turkey is the main (...)
Turkey said on Sunday its military killed 15 militants from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which it said was preparing to carry out an attack in a region of northeast Syria controlled by Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies.
In an offensive last year (...)
Russian law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case against Lyubov Sobol, an ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and took her in for questioning early on Friday after raiding her home, Navalny and his supporters said.
There was no immediate (...)
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the new round of U.S. sanctions against Russia marked another hostile act by the outgoing administration of President Donald Trump and would further harm already poor ties between Moscow and Washington.
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Egypt is getting closer to becoming a regional energy hub, exporting its excess production of natural gas and facilitating exports from neighbouring countries. It has also embarked on several projects connecting the electricity grids of Arab, (...)
Ten years will have passed next 25 January since the Egyptian people took to the streets to demand radical political change under the slogan “the people want to change the regime.” What they wanted was the departure of former president Hosni Mubarak (...)
In the first half of the last decade the army backed the people in two grassroots revolutions, and in the second performed a complementary role to civilian bodies in fostering economic recovery, development, and growth. The army performed these (...)
Following his election to a third term, Russian President Vladimir Putin readjusted a number of governing norms and principles of his country's foreign policy philosophy to bring it into line with Russian interests in light of sweeping global (...)
Suspected Russian hackers who broke into U.S. government agencies also spied on less high-profile organizations, including groups in Britain, a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona, according to web records and a security (...)
يعقد الرئيس الروسى فلايمير بوتين حاليا مؤتمره الصحفى السنوى الذى يجيب فيه على أسئلة المواطنين والصحفيين حول الوضع السياسى والاقتصادى الداخلى والسياسة الخارجية الروسية..
ويمكن متابعة المؤتمر الصحفى الذى يعقد هذا العام عبر الفيديو كونفرانس فى ظل (...)
Egypt expressed optimism about the prospect of a free trade deal with the (Russia-led) Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) member countries as they will launch a new round of talks.
Egyptian Trade Minister Nevine Gamea said on Thursday she was pleased (...)
