POLITICS

A Turkish prosecutor asked an Istanbul court on Thursday to stop proceedings against the alleged killers of the Saudi journalist

TUNIS: Tunisian anti-terrorism police summoned the country’s main opposition figure for questioning on Friday, as a political crisis deepens in the wake of President Kais Saied’s move to dissolve parliament and impose one-man rule. Rached Ghannouchi, head of the Islamist Ennahda party and speaker of the dissolved parliament, was summoned to appear later on Friday, […]

RIYADH: The world’s Muslims will mark the first day of Ramadan on Saturday after an official sighting of the new crescent moon, the Saudi Supreme Court announced on Friday. This will be the first year since 2019 that Ramadan in Saudi Arabia will be observed without coronavirus restrictions. The Supreme Court also congratulated the Custodian […]

European Union antitrust regulators, on Friday, scrapped their investigation into Qatar Energy after evidence they collected did not confirm their initial concerns, Reuters reported. “Today’s closure decision is based on a thorough analysis of all relevant evidence, including information received from Qatar Energy and the European gas importers,” the European Commission said in a statement. […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov began meetings with India’s leaders in New Delhi on Friday after seeing his Chinese counterpart earlier in the week, as Moscow tries to keep the Asian powers on its side amid Western sanctions. Lavrov’s mission to shore up support from a country Moscow has long-regarded as a friend comes a […]

Tunisia’s president said late on Thursday he would not hold elections within three months after he dissolved parliament this week, the latest step in a march to one-man rule after brushing aside most of the democratic constitution. Saied issued a decree on Wednesday dissolving parliament, which has been suspended since last year, after it defied […]

Istanbul’s oldest surviving palace was used as a main residence by Byzantine rulers for centuries, before they moved to the nearby Palace of Blachernae

A potential project to build a gas pipeline between Turkey and Israel is not feasible in the short term. This was stated today by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and he made it clear that the creation of an alternative system to break the dependence on Russia will not happen immediately. Turkey and Israel have […]

Pakistan’s opposition on Thursday called on Prime Minister Imran Khan to resign ahead of a parliamentary vote which could see the former cricket star ousted and the return of political uncertainty in the nuclear-armed country. Khan, 69, has been facing mounting criticism of his performance, including his management of an economy beset by high inflation […]

Tunisian President Kais Saied late on Wednesday issued a decree dissolving parliament, which has been suspended since last year, after it defied him by voting to repeal decrees that he used to assume near total power. Speaking after an online session of more than half the parliament members, their first since he suspended the chamber […]