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France's justice minister will head to Algeria next week to discuss improving cooperation and the fate of a detained French journalist, his office said Saturday, as ties warm following a diplomatic spat. "The purpose of this trip is to...

The first time one truly stands before a Ming-style horseshoe-back armchair, a quiet misperception arises. It does not feel like an antique. It feels like a piece of modern design completed several centuries too early. There is no heavy imperial...

GAZA, (PIC) Thousands of Gazans took part on Saturday in the solemn funeral procession for Izzuddin al‑Haddad, commander‑in‑chief of Hamas’s al‑Qassam Brigades, who was martyred along with his wife and daughter in an Israeli strike yesterday. The funeral procession set out from...

However, the deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak notes, on Friday evening, the State Financial Monitoring Service warned banks that the sources of funds for the bail would be checked and sanctions would follow in case of violation of the rules of financial...

Improving US–Russia relations under the Trump 2.0 administration is being challenged by alleged deep-state actions targeting Russian diplomats. The forced granting of US citizenship to diplomats’ children is portrayed as a violation of international diplomatic norms and a means of...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC) The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) forced two Jerusalemite citizens to demolish their own homes in east Jerusalem under the pretext of unlicensed construction. According to local sources, Omar Halsa was compelled to demolish his home at his own expense...

The US military, "in coordination with the Armed Forces of Nigeria," killed Abu Bilal al Minuki and several other senior Islamic State leaders in an operation in northeastern Nigeria. President Trump and US Africa Command described Minuki as the Islamic...

When Britain sent its first formal diplomatic mission to China in 1793, one of the participants from London, Peter Auber, remarked that the group had been “received with the utmost politeness, treated with the utmost hospitality, watched with the utmost...

US President Donald Trump’s historic visit to Beijing raises hopes of “a constructive and strategically stable relationship” between the US and China, Beijing, May 15, 2026 Narratives in international diplomacy are best formed through an organic process as the variables...

A Paris magistrate will investigate the 2018 assassination of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi after rights groups filed a complaint against Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, French sources told AFP on Saturday. Both Mohammed Bin...

Syria named a new central bank governor on Friday in the latest reshuffle since last week's partial government overhaul. The official SANA news agency said Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa named Abdul Hamid Raslan, a longtime banker...

Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath is facing deportation from France after authorities deemed his presence a "serious threat to public order", his lawyer told AFP on Friday. Shaath, 54, was a prominent figure of the 2011 uprising in...

GAZA, (PIC) The Israeli occupation army continued its ceasefire violations for the 219th consecutive day on Saturday morning by carrying out artillery shelling and gunfire attacks in different areas of the Gaza Strip. According to media sources, an Israeli helicopter opened fire...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed different areas of the West Bank and kidnaped a number of Palestinian citizens last night and at dawn Saturday. According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped two citizens from their homes in the...

The Middle East is not being remade; it is being contested widely and publicly. The emerging alignment between Israel and the United Arab Emirates appears, at first glance, to signal a decisive geopolitical shift. Yet beneath the optics of normalization...

Israel continued to attack southern Lebanon on Saturday despite the two countries agreeing to extend the "ceasefire" for 45 days just hours earlier. At least six people were killed, including three paramedics, and 22 were wounded in...

Israel continued to attack southern Lebanon on Saturday despite the two countries agreeing to extend the "ceasefire" for 45 days just hours earlier. At least six people were killed, including three paramedics, and 22 were wounded in...

Israel continued to attack southern Lebanon on Saturday despite the two countries agreeing to extend a ceasefire for 45 days just hours earlier. At least six people were killed, including three paramedics, and 22 were wounded in...

Israel bombs Lebanon despite agreeing 'ceasefire' extension: The Israeli has launched new waves of strikes across south Lebanon and issued fresh displacement orders in the hours after the US said it had brokered a 45-day extension...

Israel bombs Lebanon despite agreeing 'ceasefire' extension: Israel launched new waves of strikes across south Lebanon and issued fresh displacement orders in the hours after the US said it had brokered a 45-day extension to the...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced the arson attack that was carried out at dawn Friday by an extremist Jewish settler group in the village of Jibiya, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. “The continued crimes and...

Earlier this month, Indonesia and Japan signed a defense cooperation agreement that could eventually allow Jakarta to acquire lethal weaponry from Tokyo. The move was the latest in a series of strategic engagements signaling that Indonesia is beginning to lean...

A day that begins in the fields at sunrise finds its way onto the plate just a few hours later. At Taarsa, the kitchen moves in rhythm with the producers themselves. After a career path stretching from Noma to Tarsus,...

WEST BANK, (PIC) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and killed a Palestinian citizen during a raid in Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Saturday. The Palestinian health ministry said that 34‑year‑old Nouruddin Fayyad was martyred after he was...