Month: June 2021

Sudan is open to a partial interim agreement on Ethiopia’s multi-billion-dollar dam on the Blue Nile, with specific conditions, Irrigation Minister Yasir Abbas said on Monday.

An Egyptian court on Monday upheld death sentences for 12 Muslim Brotherhood members, including two senior leaders of the outlawed Islamist movement, a judicial official said.

Lebanon recorded 45 coronavirus cases and three deaths in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Monday, as the country maintains a consistent drop in the spread of the … Read More

NATO will confront China’s military ambitions for the first time and designate Beijing as presenting “systemic challenges”, according to a copy of a summit communique seen by Reuters and set … Read More

President Michel Aoun warned that Israel cannot impose a unilateral view on the disputed maritime border in a meeting Monday with the American mediator responsible for the offshore border talks, … Read More

Veteran leader Benjamin Netanyahu handed over power in Israel on Monday to new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett but remained defiant as the patchwork government faced tensions with Palestinians over a … Read More

No surprise that the situation in Lebanon was and will not be on the agenda of the talks.

Bitcoin climbed to shy of $40,000 on Monday, after yet another weekend of price swings following tweets from Tesla boss Elon Musk, who fended off criticism over his market influence … Read More

Benjamin Netanyahu’s ousting as prime minister of Israel closes the chapter on one of the “worst periods” of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said on Monday.

NATO leaders are expected to brand China a security risk to the Western alliance on Monday, a day after the Group of Seven rich nations issued a statement on human … Read More