Mohamed Khameri

The newly elected Labour government is expected to drop its legal bid to delay the International Criminal Court (ICC) from deciding to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to reports. The shift on the ICC issue, reported by The Guardian, marks a possible change in Labour’s policy toward Israel, which has […]

Modi last visited Russia in 2019 and hosted Putin in India two years later, weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine [Getty/file photo] Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due to arrive in Russia on Monday, as the Indian leader treaded a fine line between maintaining a longstanding relationship with Moscow and courting closer Western security ties. The

The UK’s new foreign minister said he wants to get back to a “balanced position” on Israel and Gaza [GETTY] Britain wants a “balanced position” on Israel’s war on Gaza and will use diplomatic efforts to ensure a ceasefire is reached and captives held by Hamas are released, its new foreign minister David Lammy told

Since 8 October 2023, daily exchanges of fire between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel have highlighted the ease with which Israel’s war on Gaza has expanded into other parts of the Middle East. Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, has been putting pressure on Israel by forcing the country’s military to divert resources from Gaza to counter

The likes of Saudi Arabia witnessed extreme heat this June, leading to the death of thousands of pilgrims during Hajj [Getty/file photo] Last month was the hottest June on record across the globe, the EU’s climate monitor said on Monday, capping half a year of wild and destructive weather from floods to heatwaves. Every month

Before being named as the new education minister in the latest cabinet reshuffle, Abdel-Latif worked as the CEO of a chain of private and international schools owned by his mother. [Getty] Recent accusations facing Egypt’s recently appointed education minister over allegedly faking his academic credentials have raised concerns about the vetting process of state officials

Meta Platforms, which manages Facebook, said last week it would finally lift its blanket ban on the Arabic word shaheed (“martyr”) after a year-long review by its oversight board found the social media giant’s approach was “overbroad”. The company, which runs Facebook and Instagram, has been criticised for years over its handling of content involving the Middle East. A

The Israeli army has detained scores of Palestinians from Gaza throughout the war [Getty/file photo] The dead and handcuffed bodies of three Palestinian men reelased from Israeli detention have been found near Gaza’s border with Israel, with an uncle of one of the victims and a witness said they had been attacked by Israeli forces

The Iraqi parliament has repeatedly failed to elect a new speaker after Iraq’s top court ousted Mohammed al-Halbusi on 14 November. [Getty] Masoud Barzani, the president of the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has reportedly initiated a mediation to address the ongoing political crisis among Iraqi Sunni Arab factions over the election of a new

Israel’s war on Gaza has destroyed at least 35 percent of all buildings in the enclave [Getty] The death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza could be as high as 186,000, medical experts have concluded, a figure 150,000 higher than current estimates. The analysis by the medical journal The Lancet could give a deeper understanding of