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Europe worries about Turkey, Grey Wolves and Erdogan

London to start trialling first 24-hour Covid vaccination centres in January

January 18, 2021

Scrap benefits cut to stop millions falling into poverty, Boris Johnson told

January 18, 2021

New No 10 team take on Cummings’ legacy of chaos and acrimony

January 18, 2021

EHRC undermined by pressure to support No 10 agenda, says ex-chair

Team Biden’s global challenges

January 18, 2021

A lot of Tories want to oppose universal credit cut, says Keir Starmer

January 18, 2021

Prosecutors want Putin foe Navalny jailed for 30 days, Moscow tells West to butt out

January 18, 2021

First Qatar-Egypt flight since 2017 takes off from Doha

Clashes erupt in Sudan’s South Darfur, 47 people killed: Tribal leader

January 18, 2021

Israeli warplanes hit Gaza after rocketfire: army

January 18, 2021

UAE reports highest number of coronavirus cases since start of pandemic

January 18, 2021

UK

A giant balloon depicting US President Donald Trump as an orange baby floats above anti-Trump demonstrators in Parliament Square outside the Houses of Parliament in London on June 4, 2019, on the second day of Trump's three-day State Visit to the UK. (AFP)

UK

Trump baby blimp joins Museum of London’s protest collection

A blimp depicting US President Donald Trump as a snarling, nappy-wearing orange baby has found a home in one of...

A woman wearing a face covering walks past a shop window in London, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 during England's third national lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. (AP)

UK

UK economy shrinks by 2.6 percent in November, first drop since April lockdown

Britain’s economy shrank by 2.6 percent in November, the first monthly fall in output since the depths of an initial...

David Barclay poses after receiving their knighthoods from the Queen at Buckingham Palace. (AFP)

David Barclay, UK’s Daily Telegraph owner dead at 86 after short illness

January 13, 2021

A Union flag flies over a house in Whitehaven, Britain February 13, 2017. Picture taken February 13, 2017. (Reuters)

UK government gives nod to new coal mine, enraging climate groups

January 8, 2021

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been held for more than a year and a half as he fights extradition to the United States. (Reuters)

Imprisoned Wikileaks’ founder Assange denied bail by London court

January 6, 2021

Demonstrators protest against the extradition of Julian Assange, in London. (Reuters)

Assange ‘free to return home’ once legal challenges in UK over, says Australia PM

January 5, 2021

People jog down almost empty Regent Street in New Year's Day amid the coronavirus outbreak, in London, Britain, on January 1, 2021. (Reuters)

Coronavirus: UK to toughen COVID-19 border controls: Minister

January 5, 2021

Johnson: ‘no question’ England will need tougher Covid lockdown rules soon

January 10, 2021

UK judge refuses extradition of WikiLeaks founder Assange to US

January 10, 2021

Exam board drops only black composer from music A-level syllabus

January 10, 2021

International

Alexei Navalny is surrounded by journalists inside the plane prior to his flight to Moscow in the Airport Berlin Brandenburg (BER) in Schoenefeld, near Berlin, Germany, Sunday, January 17, 2021. (AP)

Prosecutors want Putin foe Navalny jailed for 30 days, Moscow tells West to butt out

State prosecutors in Russia asked a judge on Monday to jail Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for 30 days, after he...

A general view shows the city center and the Moskva River in Moscow. (Reuters)

Russia expels two Dutch diplomats in tit-for-tat move

Russia’s foreign ministry on Monday expelled two Dutch diplomats in a tit-for-tat move after the expulsion of two Russian diplomats...

A giant balloon depicting US President Donald Trump as an orange baby floats above anti-Trump demonstrators in Parliament Square outside the Houses of Parliament in London on June 4, 2019, on the second day of Trump's three-day State Visit to the UK. (AFP)

Trump baby blimp joins Museum of London’s protest collection

January 18, 2021

An Emirates plane on the runway. (File photo: Twitter, @Emirates)

Coronavirus: Emirates ceases flights to three Australian cities amid COVID-19 strains

January 16, 2021

An Iranian technician works at the control room of the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities. (File photo: AFP)

France, Britain, Germany warn Iran against uranium metal work

January 16, 2021

An aerial picture shows a hospital building collapsed following an earthquake in Mamuju. (Reuters)

5.0-magnitude aftershock hits Indonesia’s Sulawesi island

January 16, 2021

Afghan security forces inspect at the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 20, 2020. (File photo: Reuters)

Roadside bomb kills two policemen in Afghanistan: Officials

January 16, 2021

A man wearing a protective face mask takes a photo of the sunset at Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront as skyline buildings stand across Victoria Harbor following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Hong Kong. (File photo: Reuters)

Hong Kong government ‘strongly’ objects to US report critical of Beijing

January 16, 2021

An Ethiopian child is seen at dawn within Hamdayet village on the Sudan-Ethiopia border. (Reuters)

Ethiopian refugee children at risk of exploitation, trafficking in Sudan

January 16, 2021

Emergency vehicles patrol the perimeter while battling a bush fire in Kwinana, some 30 kilometres south of Perth on January 4, 2021. (AFP)

Australian bushfire threatens homes in Perth

January 16, 2021

Gulf

A Qatar Airways aircraft, the first flight bound for Cairo after the resumption of flights between Qatar and Egypt, at Qatar's Hamad International Airport near the capital Doha, January 18, 2021. (Karim Jaafar/AFP)

First Qatar-Egypt flight since 2017 takes off from Doha

The first Qatar-Egypt flight since the two Arab countries severed relations in 2017 took off from Doha on Monday, making...

Sudanese boys push a wheelbarrow past a United Nations peace keeper at the El-Riyadh camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Geneina, the capital of the state of Sudan's West Darfur, on February 8, 2017. (AFP)

Clashes erupt in Sudan’s South Darfur, 47 people killed: Tribal leader

Tribal clashes broke out Monday in Sudan’s South Darfur state, killing at least 47 people, a tribal leader said, shortly...

Employees at the Dubai COVID-19 Command and Control Center at Mohammed bin Rashid University on May 20, 2020. (File photo: AFP)

UAE reports highest number of coronavirus cases since start of pandemic

January 18, 2021

A Bahraini man waits to get a dose of a coronavirus vaccine in Manama. (Reuters)

Coronavirus: Pfizer delays Bahrain’s vaccine delivery for January

January 16, 2021

People enter and leave Riyadh's general court October 20, 2008. (File photo: Reuters)

Saudi Arabia amends anti-harassment law, to name and shame offenders

January 16, 2021

Trump talks with leaders, officials from the UAE, Bahrain and Israel during the signing of the Abraham Accords. (Reuters)

Trump receives Morocco’s highest award for Middle East peace efforts: Official

January 16, 2021

Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan meeting with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi. (Twitter)

Saudi Arabia, Jordan’s FMs discuss regional issues in Riyadh meeting

January 16, 2021

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud attends a news conference. (File photo: Reuters)

Saudi Arabia will open an embassy in Qatar’s capital Doha within days: FM

January 16, 2021

Col. Turki al-Malki, spokesman for the Arab coalition. (File photo: AFP)

Arab Coalition destroys three Houthi drones launched towards Saudi Arabia

January 15, 2021

An Emirati walks past a camel statue decorated with a face mask in Dubai. (File photo: AP)

Coronavirus cases in the UAE surge as authorities detect 3,407 new infections

January 15, 2021

Caricature

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Arabic

Israeli warplanes hit Gaza after rocketfire: army

Israeli warplanes hit Gaza after rocketfire: army

Israel's military said Monday its fighter planes struck Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip after Palestinians fired rockets at the Jewish state. Two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip...

A Likud election campaign billboard at a main entrance to Tel Aviv in 2019. (Reuters)

Israel to ban groups that call it an ‘apartheid state’

January 18, 2021

A statue of slain IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani in the southern suburbs of Beirut. (Screengrab)

Lebanon’s Hezbollah erects Soleimani statues, dividing supporters on Iran propaganda

January 18, 2021

A view shows empty road in Beirut during lockdown. (Reuters)

Coronavirus: Lebanon’s parliament approves law on COVID-19 vaccines

January 16, 2021

UNSCOL Jan Kubis in an interview with Al Arabiya. (File Photo: Screengrab)

UN Security Council appoints current Lebanon envoy Jan Kubis for Libya mediator role

January 16, 2021

Ali Hammoud, the founder of Mounet Em Jamal, focuses his business on homemade jams, labneh, olives, pickles and olive oil, all of which are prepared by his mother. (Supplied)

A glimpse of light for some businesses in Lebanon as they cope with coronavirus

January 15, 2021

People walk along an empty road during a curfew in Nabatieh area, southern Lebanon. (Reuters)

Coronavirus: Lebanon kicks off 24-hour curfew as COVID-19 cases surge

January 14, 2021

A general view shows the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, August 10, 2020. (Reuters)

World Bank approves $246 mln project to support vulnerable Lebanese households

January 13, 2021

Reports

Members of the public arrive to receive their Covid-19 vaccinations at the Olympic Office Centre, Wembley, north London.

London to start trialling first 24-hour Covid vaccination centres in January

Tory backbenchers representing 65 northern seats, many of them ex-Labour, have joined calls for the PM to cancel a planned reduction in UC

Scrap benefits cut to stop millions falling into poverty, Boris Johnson told

Allegra Stratton (left) and Dan Rosenfield (front centre) listen as Johnson holds a press conference on Christmas Eve.

New No 10 team take on Cummings’ legacy of chaos and acrimony

David Isaac, former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

EHRC undermined by pressure to support No 10 agenda, says ex-chair

Keir Starmer condemned Boris Johnson’s dismissal of the Commons vote, saying PM should join him in going to a London food distribution centre on Monday.

A lot of Tories want to oppose universal credit cut, says Keir Starmer

Wafa Ali Mustafa holds up a picture of her father during a demonstration on the International Day of the Disappeared, at Alexanderplatz, Berlin. Credit: Ahmad Kalaji

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