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World
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International
9/23/2024 11:45:29 AM
The U.N. General Assembly approved a blueprint Sunday to bring the world’s increasingly divided nations together to tackle 21st-century challenges from climate change and artificial intelligence to escalating conflicts and increasing inequality and poverty.
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World
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Region
9/22/2024 7:20:36 PM
The European Union is "extremely concerned" about an escalation of the conflict between Israel and Lebanon and is calling for an "urgent" ceasefire, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Sunday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/22/2024 2:08:51 PM
Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty emphasized the importance of a comprehensive political resolution to address all the ramifications of the Syrian crisis during his meeting with Geir Otto Pedersen, UN Secretary-General special envoy for Syria, on Saturday, according to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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World
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International
9/22/2024 8:59:00 AM
World leaders will descend on the United Nation's New York HQ from Sunday for the organization's annual signature gathering against an explosive backdrop of raging wars, growing populism and diplomatic deadlock.
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World
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Region
9/21/2024 8:17:54 PM
This week saw a dizzying escalation in the nearly yearlong conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. First came two days of exploding pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah — deadly attacks pinned on Israel that also maimed civilians around Lebanon.
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World
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Region
9/19/2024 10:46:44 PM
US President Joe Biden believes there can still be a diplomatic resolution to escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah following a series of pager and walkie-talkie bombings, his spokeswoman said Thursday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
9/19/2024 10:35:57 PM
The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution calling on EU countries to let Ukraine use Western weapons to strike military targets inside Russia, prompting an angry rebuke from Moscow.
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World
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War in Ukraine
9/19/2024 10:18:40 PM
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet Joe Biden and Kamala Harris next week and plans to see Donald Trump as he visits the United States to shore up support before November's crucial presidential election.
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World
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War in Ukraine
9/18/2024 9:34:19 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he had ordered, earlier this week, a boost of Moscow's army to 1.5 million active soldiers to ensure a well-trained military.
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World
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War in Ukraine
9/18/2024 6:39:08 PM
Russia's counter-offensive to retake territory captured by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region has been "stopped", a spokesman from Ukraine's military administration set up in the area told AFP Wednesday.
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World
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War in Sudan
9/18/2024 11:50:24 AM
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday called for Sudan's warring parties to "re-engage" in peace talks and facilitate humanitarian access, in some of his most direct comments yet on the country's deadly conflict.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/17/2024 9:36:39 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and King Abdullah II of Jordan have warned of the danger of the ongoing war in Gaza and the expansion of the violations in the West Bank.
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World
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War in Ukraine
9/17/2024 3:10:44 PM
Russia is boosting its army size to 1.5 million active soldiers due to "threats" along its borders, including hostility in the West, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
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World
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International
9/13/2024 2:11:54 PM
Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun said Friday that "negotiation" was the only solution to conflicts such as Israel's war on Gaza and the war in Ukraine as he addressed a global gathering of military officials in Beijing.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/13/2024 1:13:06 PM
Spain is hosting a meeting today of ministers from Muslim and European countries aimed at advancing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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World
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Region
9/10/2024 10:52:45 PM
Western powers on Tuesday announced fresh sanctions on Iran for supplying Russia with short-range missiles for imminent use against Ukraine, calling it a dangerous escalation of the conflict that threatened European security.
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World
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War in Ukraine
9/10/2024 11:40:09 AM
Over 140 Ukrainian drones overnight targeted multiple Russian regions, including the capital Moscow and the surrounding areas, Russian officials reported Tuesday, in one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian soil in the 2 1/2-year war.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/9/2024 11:19:00 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi urged the international community and the European Union (EU) to exert intense pressure to achieve an agreement that would end the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip and the violence in the West Bank.
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World
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War in Ukraine
9/7/2024 5:47:43 PM
Ukraine's security services said Saturday they had struck a Russian ammunition factory in a border region, as Moscow's forces claimed yet another advance on the battlefield.
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World
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War in Sudan
9/7/2024 5:32:19 PM
Hundreds of families fled a northern suburb of Sudan's capital Khartoum on Saturday after fighting between the army and paramilitaries intensified around a key military base, witnesses told AFP.
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