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Sudan’s RSF paramilitary commander announced on Monday a unilateral truce during Muslims’ Eid al Adha. General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, said in an audio recording aired on Al Arabiya TV the truce will be effective…

All settler colonialism in the occupied Palestinian territories is illegitimate and illegal, Palestinian officials said on Monday. Anger and frustration have been growing in response to Isreali Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call to…

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi gave “his full support” to Vladimir Putin during a telephone call, the Kremlin announced in a statement on Monday, two days after an aborted mutiny in Russia. “The Iranian president has expressed his full…

A charity worker in the UK has hit out at the government for not doing enough to evacuate hundreds of people trapped in Sudan, including his wife and children. Alhussein Ahmed, who is based in Liverpool, where he works for the Merseyside…

The head of the Gulf Cooperation Council said GCC countries are making a significant effort to combat illegal drugs, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Thursday. GCC Secretary-General Jasem Albudaiwi was speaking on the occasion of UN…

Despite global economic headwinds, assets under management in the Middle East grew by $100 billion from 2021 to 2022 to reach $1.3 trillion, according to US-based Boston Consulting Group. This reflects a compound annual growth rate of 7…

Lionel Messi has called his start at former club Paris Saint-Germain “very tough,” dubbing two successive failed Champions League bids a “massive disappointment.” “I came to Paris because I liked the club, because I had friends in the…

Thousands of football fans marched over the Sydney Harbor Bridge on Sunday to mark 25 days before the Women’s World Cup starts in Australia and New Zealand. Football’s governing body FIFA estimated around 4,000 braved chilly temperatures…

Lebanon’s biggest Druze party on Sunday chose Taymur Jumblatt, 41, to succeed his father as leader of the small but influential community in the country’s power-sharing system. Almost 2,000 supporters gathered in Ain Zhalta, in the Druze…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday praised the thwarting of what he said was an Iranian attack against Israeli targets in Cyprus. A statement from Netanyahu’s office did not give any more details, but Israeli news…