Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a British-Egyptian political prisoner, has been on hunger strike for over 60 days in protest against his detention and deprivation of rights in prison Although Alaa Abdel Fattah’s detention conditions have [ More … ]
The United Nations will convene a meeting of parties in the Cyprus dispute in Geneva in late April, the first such meeting since 2017 when talks about the divided island collapsed in disarray, according to [ More … ]
Report given to UK government claims evidence shows British arms should not be sold to Saudi Arabia Evidence that the Saudi-led coalition has covered up human rights abuses in Yemen was submitted to the British [ More … ]
The chief executive and a managing partner of the collapsed Dubai private equity firm Abraaj Capital Ltd were arrested on U.S. charges that they defrauded their investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a [ More … ]
UK firm now says it won’t be involved ‘in such a project’, referring to planned protest against Qatari emir in London. A casting agency in the UK offered actors $25 to take part in an [ More … ]
The UK Detention Review Panel (DRP) has issued its official report on the detention conditions of Dr. Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president who was overthrown by the military in 2013. The UK Detention [ More … ]
Campaigners have criticized the gift-giving of countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE as a ploy to ‘increase influence’ Gulf monarchies have continued to shower UK foreign ministers with lavish gifts, according to newly released government [ More … ]
The United States, France and United Kingdom in a joint statement welcomed the Libya National Army (LNA) decision to probe unlawful killings along with its recognition of an ICC arrest warrant for an LNA commander. [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* A brand new “coalition” is being shaped in our region, in the Middle East, and Turkey is most definitely not extraneous to this coalition! I guess the most serious political mobility after the Arab Spring is going to take [ More … ]
About 3.5 million tourists have visited Tunisia up to July, said Minister of Tourism and Handicrafts Selma Elloumi Rekik. Tunisia managed to recover traditional markets, such as France. The lifting by the UK of the [ More … ]
Boris Johnson arrived in Kuwait on Saturday, to meet representatives from Gulf nations involved in the ongoing Qatar blockade, after visiting Saudi Arabia a day earlier. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson landed in Kuwait on [ More … ]
Qatar’s foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani called on the UK to condemn the blockade imposed on the Gulf state, after landing in London on Monday. Qatar’s foreign minister arrived in London on Monday, [ More … ]
The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in Britain (AOHR) has called on the UK government to stop exporting arms to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) because of its role in fuelling armed conflicts in the [ More … ]
BY: Kemal Öztürk* This is called a “crackdown movement.” We cannot explain what is being done to Qatar with any other diplomatic concept. They literally cracked down on the country in a day. Seven countries, including [ More … ]
“We share the grief of the British government and its people,” Turkish president says Turkey has moved to condemn a deadly terror attack at a pop concert in the U.K. which police said claimed at [ More … ]
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