President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said voters had “shown that they prefer action and development to controversy”. The Justice and Development Party (AK party) is set to lead Turkey alone once again. With almost all votes [ More … ]
A monthly record of 218,394 migrants and refugees arrived in Europe by sea in October, says Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for United Nations refugee agency UNHCR. “That makes it the highest total for any month [ More … ]
The dominant party of Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan triumphed in the parliamentary elections on Sunday, winning a majority of seats. Preliminary results showed Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) was set to win at least 49 percent of [ More … ]
Qatar has announced 100 new scholarships for Gaza’s university students through Al-Fakhoora organisation, reports Qatar’s al-Raya newspaper. The scholarships are an extension to previous subsidies provided by Qatar, these include the reconstruction of the Gaza [ More … ]
Qatar officially unveiled the world’s largest workers’ accommodation camp on Sunday, with enough room to house nearly 70,000 laborers. Labor City contains two police stations and Qatar’s second-largest mosque, and cost some $825 million to [ More … ]
The Islamist party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, AKP, on Sunday regained its majority in Parliament in the snap election that represented a stunning comeback, and ensured another period of single party government in Turkey. More [ More … ]
Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said made an appearance on state television on Monday, marking his first public appearance since he returned to the country. In March he returned from a lengthy stay [ More … ]
Despite several warnings from the government, some Omani employers are reportedly still keeping passports of foreign laborers working in the country. Since legislation passed in 2010, it is illegal for Omani companies to keep [ More … ]
Turks have voted in parliamentary polls for the second time in five months, where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party tries to regain its majority, after attempts to form a coalition government after elections in [ More … ]
There are several reports of a high turnout, amid speculation that this could be damaging for the AKP. Aykan Erdemir a former MP for the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) reckons turn up is up June’s election [ More … ]
Voters in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeastern city of Diyarbakir turned out in droves on Sunday, queuing up in the shadow of armoured police vehicles to cast their ballots against what many said was state intimidation, [ More … ]
Twenty-four people face trial in Bahrain for trying to set up a branch of the Islamic State militant group and promoting the overthrow of the Gulf Arab state’s monarchy, the public prosecutor’s office said on [ More … ]
Turkey holds snap parliamentary elections on Sunday amid worsening security and economic worries, that could profoundly impact the divided country’s trajectory and that of President Tayyip Erdogan. Polls that could end more than a decade of single-party [ More … ]
The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, said in a public statement on state television that the war in Syria must end. For that to happen, he said, Western powers must stop backing the [ More … ]
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