North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump have touched down in Singapore, setting the stage for a landmark summit aimed at averting a nuclear crisis. Their highly anticipated meeting, which will be held on Tuesday, will mark the first time a North Korean leader has met a[…]
Haider al-Abadi, Iraq’s prime minister, has said the burning of a warehouse in Baghdad where ballot boxes from last month’s disputed parliamentary elections were kept was part of a plot to sabotage the country’s democratic process. His comments on Sunday were the most high-profile indication that the fire in the[…]
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait offered $2.5bn in aid for Jordan to ease its economic crisis following a wave of anti-austerity protests, the Saudi state media announced early Monday. “In light of the close brotherly ties… it was agreed that the three countries would provide an economic[…]
Austria’s main federation of Muslim residents (IGGiOe) on Sunday voiced its “indignation” after Vienna announced the closure of seven mosques and said it would expel Turkish-funded imams. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who faces elections in two weeks, on Saturday strongly criticised the move as anti-Islamic and promised a response,[…]
Millions of people across Iran and other world countries are gathering for the International Quds Day rallies to show their solidarity with the Palestinians and condemn Israel’s decades-long occupation and atrocities. In Tehran and other cities and towns, people from all walks of life are taking to the streets for[…]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has pulled 71 of its international staff out of Yemen because of rising security threats. Some 450 ICRC employees remain in Yemen, including dozens of expatriate staff, spokeswoman Marie-Claire Feghali said. The aid agency urged all sides in the country’s three-year war[…]
Israeli police threw stun grenades at Palestinian worshippers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday and detained two young men following days of increased tension at the holy site in occupied East Jerusalem. Official Palestinian Authority (PA)-owned Wafa news agency reported that the attack on Palestinians at the site came after[…]
Air strikes on a village in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province have killed at least 38 people overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. “War planes, which are likely Russian, targeted the village of Zardana in northern rural Idlib overnight and caused the highest death toll in a[…]
US President Donald Trump has said he is open to inviting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to the White House if he deemed next week’s summit a success, while also signalling he was willing to walk away if he thought talks did not go well. “Certainly if it goes well.[…]
Dozens of men – young and old – from the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh lined the entrance of the morgue at Ramallah Hospital. All were waiting to catch a glimpse of 21-year-old Ezzaddin Abd El Hafeezh Tamimi, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday morning, during[…]
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