The ICJ said it unanimously “rejects the appeal” by the rival states against a decision in favor of Qatar over sovereign airspace. The UN’s top court on Tuesday backed Qatar in a bitter row with [ More … ]
Independent candidate Kais Saied won a landslide victory in Sunday’s presidential election in Tunisia, two exit polls projected, although no official results had yet been announced, reported Reuters. Saied, a retired law professor with conservative [ More … ]
AK Party candidates win 44.42 pct of all votes in local elections Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party led the weekend local elections, capturing 15 metropolitan municipalities and 24 cities, according to early results [ More … ]
Former Qatari culture minister Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari came out ahead in Monday’s first-round vote for the new chief of UN cultural agency UNESCO. The ongoing feud between Qatar and Egypt took on global dimensions [ More … ]
The Muslim Brotherhood and its allies claimed a ‘major victory’ in Jordan’s provincial and municipal elections, which concluded late on Tuesday. A Muslim Brotherhood-led coalition announced a “major victory” in Jordan’s local elections on Tuesday, [ More … ]
Italian student ‘Regeni’ was killed by Egyptian security forces, yet no one was blamed Italy has let its ambassador take up his post in Cairo, citing on Monday progress by Egypt in the investigation of [ More … ]
Final results have showed incumbent president ‘Rouhani’ emphatically beating rival Ebrahim Raisi to extend his time in office. Iran’s reformist President Hassan Rouhani has decisively won the country’s presidential election, according to official results, fending [ More … ]
The student group affiliated with the Hamas movement won the most seats in student council elections in Birzeit University in the central occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the school reported, marking the third year in [ More … ]
Algeria’s National Liberation Front secures majority in national assembly, but loses quarter of seats in Thursday’s vote. The party of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and its coalition ally have won a clear majority in parliamentary [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received a special “Hope for Peace” prize at the Steiger Award ceremony in Germany on Saturday. The Steiger Award said on its website that it had chosen to hand the prize [ More … ]
– Donald Trump wins US election, according to ABC News. – What is the impact of this development on the issues of the Middle East? The ABC election analyst Antony Green says Donald Trump has secured enough [ More … ]
Interior Ministry in Gaza affirmed its willingness for conducting local elections on time and exerting required efforts for its success. Undersecretary of the Interior Ministry Kamel Abu Madi said, in a press conference held Thursday [ More … ]
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