Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said talks on the Nile Dam in Ethiopia “would drag on” but expressed hope for a negotiated settlement to the dispute. El-Sisi’s comments, in a speech on Tuesday, came amid intense tensions between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the great dam of the Ethiopian Great …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia registered a deficit of 109.2 billion riyals ($ 29.12 billion) in the second quarter of this year as low oil prices hurt revenue, a report by the Ministry of Finance released Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: A Saudi flag flies over the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, …
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Anti-government protesters have taken to the streets of the capital of Iraq and other cities after the funerals of two people killed during clashes with security forces the night before. The two protesters were killed Sunday night in central Baghdad during renewed protests against corruption, unemployment and poor public services, …
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an academic at the University of Melbourne, has been detained in Iran since 2018. She was convicted of espionage last year and sentenced to 10 years in prison. She has now been transferred from Tehran’s Evin Prison to Qarchak Women’s Prison, east of the capital, according to a …
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Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard fired a missile from a helicopter at a US aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, state television reported Tuesday, an exercise aimed at threatening the United States amid tensions between Tehran and Washington. The exercises, called “Prophet Muhammad 14”, were held near the Strait …
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