Mohamed Khameri

signingin Istanbul between BYD’s CEO and Turkey’s industry and technology minister was overseen by President Erdogan [Getty/file photo] China’s electric vehicle giant BYD on Monday signed a one-billion-dollar agreement with Turkey to open a plant in the country in a move that would help it dodge new EU tariffs. The signing ceremony in Istanbul between […]

The Houthi leader has accused the US of ‘entangling’ Saudi Arabia in attempts to financially cripple the Houthi-run part of Yemen [Getty] The media of the military wing of Yemen’s Houthi rebels published a video on Sunday showing aerial drone footage and coordinates of important and prominent airports and ports in Saudi Arabia. The video,

Human rights lawyer Richard Hermer is the UK’s new attorney general [Alex McBride/Getty] UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has chosen a chief government legal adviser who previously assessed that a Conservative bill targeting the Palestinian-led boycott movement against Israel would hinder free speech. Attorney General Richard Hermer, who will attend cabinet, is not currently a

“We will recognise the Palestinian state as quickly as possible,” said Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a figurehead of the NFP alliance. [Getty] In Paris, they took to the streets to protest an anticipated far-right win but ended up celebrating an unexpected left-wing triumph in the legislative elections. France‘s African diaspora is overjoyed, having played a crucial role

Masoud Pezeshkian became the ninth president of Iran with 16,384,403 votes. [Getty] Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s only reformist candidate in the recent presidential election, has emerged from relative obscurity to become the ninth president of the Islamic Republic.  Pezeshkian, 69, secured about 53.6 percent of the vote in a runoff against ultraconservative Saeed Jalili. In the

Israel has been waging a brutal war on Gaza since October [Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty-file photo] Five Palestinian journalists were killed in two Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in under 12 hours. It brings the number of journalists killed since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October to 158, according to the Palestinian territory’s government media office. Israeli

Federal Police accused Bolsonaro of attempting to sneak in diamond jewellery reportedly worth $3 million and selling two luxury watches last year [GETTY] The indictment of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia marked the far-right leader’s second formal accusation with more potentially

A human rights group has accused Israel of ‘deliberately reducing the amount of water available to residents’ of Gaza [Hassan jedi/Anadolu/Getty] A human rights group has accused Israel of using water as a “weapon” in Gaza. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said Israel was purposely cutting the amount of water available to residents, adding that a

Algeria and Italy on Saturday signed a 420-million-euro deal for an agricultural project in the country [GETTY] Algeria and Italy on Saturday signed a 420-million-euro deal ($455 million) for an agricultural project in the North African country, the Algerian agriculture ministry said in a statement. Italian officials called the scheme their country’s largest agricultural investment

A Tunisian lawyer and media figure was sentenced to one year in prison over comments critical of the country, her family said on Saturday. Sonia Dahmani was arrested on May 11 after masked police raided the Tunisian national bar association, where she had sought refuge, and detained her following comments she had made on TV.