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Tunisia, UAE and Bahrain have featured among the 17 countries included in the EU’s tax heaven blacklist. The EU’s financial minister drew up the list explaining that 47 countries were put on a “grey list” to be monitored until they Read more
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has called the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres to intercede with the US Administration to convince them to refrain from taking any action concerning the city of Jerusalem, given the serious implications that might Read more
The European Union (UE) Tuesday indicated that should Jerusalem become Israel’s capital, the old City’s eastern part should also represent the capital of the future Palestinian state, in response to President Trump’s scheduled decision to move the US embassy to Read more
Prime Minister Saad Hariri Tuesday rescinded his resignation that he submitted in a broadcast from Saudi Arabia early last month, after securing ‘dissociation’ pact from other cabinet groups including Iran-backed Hezbollah. Hariri accepted to continue running his one-year old cabinet Read more
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has voiced his “deep concern and that of Arab and Muslim countries” over the U.S. administration’s plan to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move its embassy to this city. In a Read more
Saudi Arabia said it will donate $100 million to the special counter-terrorism force deployed by five African countries- Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, known as G5-Sahel. The G5 force launched its first military campaign in October amid growing Read more
The British government has suspended a multimillion-pound foreign aid project amid allegations that money paid to a contractor in Syria was reaching the pockets of jihadist groups. UK Government probe has actually found some of the £12million of aid cash Read more
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels announced that they have killed former President Ali Abdallah Saleh. Al Masirah TV cited a statement of the interior ministry saying that Saleh was killed, while Iranian news agencies say that Saleh was killed on his Read more
Beat Hess, Chairman of LarageHolcim, admitted that three former executives from the Swiss-French cement company were involved in indirectly financing IS. In an interview with French daily, le Figaro, Hess said that the company should have stopped its operations in Read more
France and the UNESCO partnered in a project aiming to promote reconciliation and peaceful coexistence in Kurdistan and Iraq through community radio programs. the project, dubbed: “Voices of Peace: Promoting Peaceful Coexistence in the Liberated Areas of Iraq through Community Read more