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Morocco's Director General of Territory Surveillance (DGST) Abdellatif Hammouchi met on Friday with Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William Burns at his office in Rabat. The meeting focused on assessing the security situation and the associated risks at the regional levels and reviewed the security threats and…

The adviser at the Royal Court, Turki Al Al-Sheikh, chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA), presented awards to the 20 winners of the “Otr Al Kalam” program in its final episode, on Friday. Saudi contestant Mohammed Al-Sharif, was awarded SAR 2 million ($533,300) for…

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned of the consequences of the continued infringement on the al-Aqsa Mosque, including the ongoing provocations, abuses, and daily assaults, according to the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa). The OIC Executive Committee held an extraordinary, open-ended meeting in Riyadh to consider the continuous Israeli attacks…

The mass iftar table in Cairo’s Matariya street has become a Ramadan phenomenon after it was set for the ninth year in row on Thursday, upon an initiative launched by the region’s inhabitants.

Yemeni sources accused the Houthi militia of seizing humanitarian aid intended for the displaced and the most vulnerable groups in Sanaa and al-Mahwit, and selling it in the markets. The sources pointed out that Houthi leaders prevented hundreds of poor and displaced Yemeni families from obtaining their food aid. The…

Tunisia said on Saturday that it intends to join the BRICS countries bloc of emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Mahmoud bin Mabrouk, spokesman for the pro-presidential July 25 Movement in Tunisia and pro-Tunisian President Kais Saeid, said his country plans to join the BRICS…

The legitimate Yemeni government and the Houthi group announced they would postpone the prisoner exchange deal agreed upon in Switzerland for three days. The exchange was supposed to take place on April 11. The delay came amid international and regional efforts to agree to extend and expand the Yemeni ceasefire,…

Iraq demanded an apology from Turkiye over the drone attack that targeted the Sulaymaniyah International Airport on Friday in the Kurdistan region of Iraq without causing any casualties. President Abdul Latif Rashid condemned the blatant Turkish attacks on Iraq and its sovereignty, saying: "Turkish military operations are repeated in the…

A 50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were killed after Russian forces struck a residential building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia early on Sunday, authorities said. Ukraine's State Emergency service also reported that a 46-year-old woman, who it described as the wife and mother of the victims, was…

China's military simulated precision strikes against Taiwan in a second day of drills around the island on Sunday, with the island's defense ministry reporting multiple air force sorties and that it was monitoring China's missile forces. China, which claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, began three days of…

Lebanon said on Sunday that it intends to file a complaint with the UN Security Council against Israel's aggression on Lebanon, following a rocket barrage fired at Israel from southern Lebanon on Thursday. Lebanon’s caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah Bou Habib, said the complaint is to be presented by…