At least 13 people have died in floods caused by heavy rains in eastern Bangladesh, according to the country’s Disaster Management and Relief Department. A total of 4.5 million people…
The Ras al-Ghadir border crossing between Tunisia and Libya has been completely paralysed in both directions since Thursday evening due to tensions between the government and popular groups demanding to…
The United Nations (UN) announced today that humanitarian aid has begun entering Sudan’s Darfur region through the Adra border crossing with Chad. Justin Brady, head of the UN Office for…
Switzerland has invited UN Security Council member states to a meeting in Geneva on 25 and 26 August to mark the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. The aim of…
Venezuela’s opposition said in an open letter on Wednesday that it would consider any Supreme Court ruling validating President Nicolas Maduro’s re-election ‘null and void’. The National Electoral Council (CNE)…
Farouk Kaddoumi, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and former member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), died on Thursday at the age of 93.…
A fire has broken out on a merchant ship off the coast of Yemen’s western province of Hodeidah after ‘the third such attack in as many hours’, the UK Maritime…
Iran’s parliament on Wednesday gave full confidence to the new government presented by President Masoud Pazeshkian. The 19 names proposed by Pazeshkian received full confidence after five days of parliamentary…
Azerbaijan has officially applied to join the BRICS group, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday. The bid follows Azerbaijan’s expression of interest during the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit…
The Democratic Party has officially endorsed Kamala Harris to run in the US presidential election on 5 November. The announcement was made during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Harris’…