• Qatar World Cup: Accommodation worries for football fans
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from BBC News - Middle East
    Organisers of the football tournament are facing criticism over a lack of affordable accommodation.
  • Egypt plans bid to host 2036 Olympics
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from
    Egypt has announced plans to host the 2036 Summer Olympics said Sports Minister Ashraf Soby yesterday during a reception in Cairo for International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach. "President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has...
  • This artist explores light and perception between French Impressionism and UAE culture
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from
    Naima Morelli interviews artist and curator Alia Zaal There are many artists today inspired by 1800s French Impressionism. But what if the artist in question comes from the UAE? How does someone who grew up in surroundings where the...
  • Dame Hilary Mantel dies aged 70 leaving behind unfinished novel
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from Middle East news
  • Two teenagers charged with murder after boy stabbed outside school gates
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from Middle East news
  • Saudi women's football team draws in first international at home
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from
    Saudi Arabia's women's national football team made history yesterday after playing their first ever international fixture on home soil. The team known as the Green Falcons, led by German coach Monika Staab drew 3-3 with visitors...
  • Car meet crash injures 11 as vehicle collides with bystanders
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from Middle East news
  • Death toll from sinking of Lebanon boat rises to 94
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    Survivors say boat that sank off Syrian coast had between 120 and 150 people onboard The death toll from a boat that sank off the Syrian coast after sailing from Lebanon earlier this week has risen to 94, Syrian state TV said on...
  • Dozens of migrants killed as boat sinks off Syrian coast
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from BBC News - Middle East
    The boat, carrying more than 100 people, set off from Lebanon and was heading to Europe.
  • Families mourn, as at least 71 die on Lebanon migrant boat
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from
    At least 71 people died when the migrant boat they were aboard sank off the Syrian coast after sailing from Lebanon earlier this week, the Lebanese Transport Minister said, as search operations continued on Friday, Reuters reports. It...
  • Are Trump presidential records still missing? The answer could take years — or may never come
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from Middle East - Los Angeles Times
    Congress wants initial answers about what is missing by next week. Archivist experts say that's not realistic.
  • Spain probes cannabis 'Ponzi scheme' accused of scamming global investors
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from Middle East
    Spain's top criminal court has opened a fraud investigation into a medicinal cannabis investment platform which allegedly swindled people around the world of millions of euros. 
  • TRT: Turkiye, Qatar activate agreement to deploy Qatar fighters in Turkiye
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from
    Turkiye and Qatar have decided to activate a joint military agreement to deploy 36 Qatari fighters and 250 military personnel for training in Turkiye, TRT reported on Thursday. According to TRT, the Technical Regulation on the Deployment...
  • Sunday morning UK news briefing: Today's top headlines from The Telegraph
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from Middle East news
  • Mass arrests of Muslim leaders in India
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from
    The National Investigation Agency (Indian Intelligence) and the Enforcement Directorate (specialising in financial crimes) on Thursday arrested at least 100 Popular Front of India (PFI) leaders and prominent Islamic figures. The arrests...
  • Blog: Chile's Boric wasted an opportunity for Palestine at the UN General Assembly
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from
    Chilean President Gabriel Boric may currently be the most outspoken leader in Latin America on Palestinian rights and Israeli violations. However, his rhetoric leaves much to be desired. It, in turn, raises questions about how Chile –...
  • US expands access to internet services for Iran
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
    Washington announced Friday it was easing export restrictions on Iran to expand access to internet services, which have been curbed by the government amid a crackdown on protesters.
  • Young Iranians are rising up against decades of repression -- arguably bolder than ever
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from CNN.com - WORLD/Middle East
    Iranian authorities say they will restrict internet access in the country until calm is restored to the streets, as protests over the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police rock the Islamic Republic.
  • Friday evening news briefing: Impact of mini-Budget on your money
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from Middle East news
  • Tunisia Ennahda leader warns of plot to assassinate Ghannouchi, Larayedh in prison
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from
    A leader of Tunisia's Ennahda Movement and former Foreign Minister, Rafic Abdel Salam, revealed a plan to assassinate the Movement's leader, Rached Ghannouchi, and his deputy, Ali Larayedh, in prison, calling on local and...
  • Saudi Prince's Ukraine mediation signals 'useful' Russia ties – analysts
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from
    Saudi Arabia has won a diplomatic victory by securing freedom for foreign fighters captured in Ukraine, signalling the value of the Crown Prince's alliance with Russia to Western partners seeking to isolate Moscow over the war there,...
  • Israel summons Mexican Ambassador over Mexico City protests outside Israeli Embassy
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from
    The Israeli Foreign Ministry summoned the Mexican Ambassador in Jerusalem for a reprimand, after protesters gathered Thursday in front of the Israeli Embassy in Mexico City and vandalised its premises. "We view the issue very...
  • Lucky Briton wins £171m EuroMillions jackpot
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from Middle East news
  • Scores dead in worst sinking of migrant boat from Lebanon in recent years
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    At least 77 people drowned and many still missing after shipwreck off coast of Syria At least 77 people have drowned after the migrant boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria’s coast, the deadliest such shipwreck from Lebanon in...
  • Protests spread in Iran as President Raisi vows to crack down
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    Demonstrations that began with death of Mahsa Amini while detained by morality police pose biggest threat to regime in 13 years Iran’s president has vowed to “deal decisively” with protests that are gathering momentum across much of the...
  • Israel prepares to receive Jewish immigrants after Putin's 'partial mobilisation' decision
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from
    Israel is preparing for the expected increase in the number of Jewish immigrants from Russia, following President Vladimir Putin's decision of a partial military mobilisation of the Russian population into the army. Pnina...
  • Iran unrest: What's going on with Iran and the internet?
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from BBC News - Middle East
    The internet is cutting out and residents are unable to access social media in parts of the country.
  • Turkiye emphasises importance of exporting Russian grain, fertiliser
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from
    Emphasising that the Istanbul grain deal is running "smoothly", the Turkish President, on Friday, said more than four million tons of grain have, so far, been exported from Ukrainian ports, Anadolu News Agency reports. As part of...
  • Turkiye President slams US warning to Turkish banks over using Russian MIR cards
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from
    Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has denounced US warnings to impose sanctions on Turkish banks over using the Russian MIR transaction payment system, Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking to reporters at the Turkish House in New...
  • Iran denounces US support for 'rioters'
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
  • More than 90 dead in Lebanon migrant shipwreck off Syria
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from Breaking news from the MIDDLE EAST
    Seventeen bodies were recovered Saturday after a boat carrying migrants from Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, raising the overall toll to 94, Syrian state television said, in one of the eastern Mediterranean's deadliest such episodes.
  • Israel's UN envoy: Abbas uses UN stage to 'incite against Israel, back terrorists'
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from
    Gilad Erdan, Israel's ambassador to the UN, harshly attacked Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday over his address to world leaders at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, claiming it was a "lie-laden...
  • Fears of a third Intifada as Palestinian deaths reach 7-year high
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from CNN.com - WORLD/Middle East
    More than 97 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far this year in the West Bank, making it the deadliest year in the West Bank for Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers since 2015.
  • Fifth Iranian paramilitary member killed as president warns protesters will be dealt with 'decisively'
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from CNN.com - WORLD/Middle East
    A fifth member of an Iranian volunteer paramilitary group died Sunday after clashing with what state media called "rioters and thugs," as the country's President Ebrahim Raisi warned that protesters would be dealt with "decisively" after...
  • Elon Musk deploys 'Starlink' in Iran after govt restricts internet amid widespread protests
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
  • UNGA: Spanish PM reiterates support for Western Sahara solution
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from
    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez surprised observers after he ignored the Moroccan autonomy proposal to solve the Saharawi issue and concentrated on the United Nations (UN) resolutions regarding the case. In his speech before the...
  • Protests in Iran: What to Know
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from NYT > Middle East
    Dozens of cities have been embroiled in protests that were prompted by a young woman’s death in custody but that have escalated amid anger over religious rules and a rock-bottom economy.
  • Iran protests: US to ease internet curbs for Iranians
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from BBC News - Middle East
    The move comes after Iran tries to clamp down on internet freedom to stamp out widespread protests.
  • We watch the protests in Iran and hope, but false optimism may be clouding our eyes | Jason Burke
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    The backlash against the death of Mahsa Amini has generated viral images of civil unrest, but how complete a picture do they provide? In the second week of December 1978, between 1 and 2 million people marched peacefully through Tehran...
  • Saudi prince's Ukraine mediation signals 'useful' Russia ties
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
    Saudi Arabia has won a diplomatic victory by securing freedom for foreign fighters captured in Ukraine, signalling the value of the crown prince's alliance with Russia to Western partners seeking to isolate Moscow over the war there,...
  • 89 dead in Lebanon migrant shipwreck off Syria
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from Gulf News, News in Gulf, Latest Middle East News, Daily News | World News - Times of India
  • ‘Something big is happening’: the Iranians risking everything to protest
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    Five people share their experiences of the protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death in custody, as hope of real change grows The internet has been shut off in parts of Iran and access to platforms such as WhatsApp and Instagram blocked...
  • Jamal Khashoggi's wife to sue Israel's blacklisted Pegasus spyware
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from
    The wife of journalist, Jamal Khashoggi who was assassinated by Saudi intelligence, is planning to sue the notorious Israeli spyware developed by the NSO Group. Hanan Elatr, 52, also intends to sue Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...
  • Iran grapples with most serious challenge in years
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from BBC News - Middle East
    The leadership is seeing anger on the streets in nationwide protests in a way it has not before.
  • Iranian authorities must ‘deal decisively’ with protests, says president
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from Middle East and North Africa | The Guardian
    At least 35 dead in eight nights of demonstrations after death of Mahsa Amini in custody, state media report Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, has said authorities must “deal decisively with those who oppose the country’s security and...
  • Tensions rise between Greece and Turkey over island military bases
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from Middle East
    Tensions continue to escalate between Turkey and Greece over territorial disputes in the Aegean Sea. In the past, such tensions have been defused by US or European leaders, but this time there are fears they could be distracted by the...
  • Britain’s first seaplane flies once again – a century after Beatrix Potter tried to ground it
    Friday, September 23, 2022 from Middle East news
  • Iran Protests Are Fueled in Part by Kurdish Anger
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from NYT > Middle East
    The protests that have swept Iran following the death of a woman in police custody have been especially intense in the country’s minority Kurdish population.
  • Abbas: 'Israel decided not to be our partner in peace process'
    Saturday, September 24, 2022 from
    Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas told world leaders gathering at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on Friday that Israel has decided not to be a partner for Palestinians in the peace process. "Israel has...
  • Pictured: Classic cars that secured historic Grand Prix win reunited after 95 years
    Sunday, September 25, 2022 from Middle East news
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