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KUWAIT CITY Kuwait’s emir on Friday once again dissolved parliament barely six weeks after elections in the wealthy Gulf oil state that has seen repeated political crises, state media reported. The Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) said “an emiri order was issued to dissolve the national assembly and suspend some articles of the constitution for a […]

LONDON: Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday discussed developments in the Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories, state news agency QNA reported. During the phone call, they particularly focused on joint mediation efforts to end the war, release

Turkey and Greece divided over the island of Cyprus and dealing with migration through their respective waters [GETTY] Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be received by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday in Ankara, the latest sign of warming relations between the NATO neighbours. Diplomats said the day-long visit marks a new phase in

WASHINGTON The Biden administration on Friday said Israel’s use of US-supplied weapons may have violated international humanitarian law during its military operation in Gaza, in its strongest criticism to date of Israel. But the administration stopped short of a definitive assessment, saying that due to the chaos of the war in Gaza it could not

TUNIS: Tunisian police stormed the building of the Deanship of Lawyers on Saturday and arrested Sonia Dahmani, a lawyer known for her fierce criticism of President Kais Saied, and then arrested two journalists who witnessed the confrontation, a journalists’ syndicate said. Two IFM radio journalists, Mourad Zghidi and Borhen Bsaiss, were arrested, an official in

Somalia has asked the United Nations to end its political mission that has been present in the country for more than a decade when its mandate expires in October, according to a letter seen Thursday by AFP. UNSOM was established in 2013 by the UN Security Council to support Somali authorities in the transition to

ISTANBUL   Turkey has opened the ancient Chora church, one of Istanbul’s most celebrated Byzantine buildings, to Muslim worshippers after it was used as a museum for more than 70 years, making it the second such major conversion under President  Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan, a champion of pious Muslims in Turkey and head of a

PORT SUDAN: A major city in Sudan’s western region of Darfur has been rocked by fighting involving “heavy weaponry,” a senior UN official said Saturday. Violence erupted in populated areas of El-Fasher, putting about 800,000 people at risk, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, said in a statement. Wounded civilians were being rushed

Suspected militants blew up a school for girls in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure but no one was harmed in the overnight attack, a local police official said Thursday. The attack happened Wednesday night on the only school for girls in Shawa, a town

CAIRO/DUBAI – The United Arab Emirates hit out at Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday after the Israeli leader said the Gulf state could be involved in aiding a future government in Gaza after the war. The prominent and influential Gulf state, is one of few Arab states with official diplomatic ties to Israel,