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In the United Arab Emirates, the possession and trafficking of wild animals have been officially banned since 2017. Yet every day on social...

Lebanon decided Thursday to prolong a total lockdown by two weeks to stem an unprecedented rise in coronavirus cases and protect its collap...

Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack in a crowded Baghdad market on Thursday, killing at least 32 people in Iraq's first big...

A rare twin suicide bombing killed at least 13 people on a bustling commercial street in the heart of Baghdad on Thursday, the military sai...

After 15 years, Palestinians will go to the polls for a parliamentary election on May 22. The presidential vote will be held on July 31. Ob...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Friday announced dates for the first Palestinian elections in more than 15 years, setting legislative...

Lebanon went into a tight lockdown Thursday, with residents barred even from grocery shopping and forced to rely on food deliveries as the c...

Israel says it wants to become the first country in the world to inoculate its entire population against Covid-19. A full 20 percent of its...

France said on Wednesday it had brought home seven children of French jihadists from northeast Syria, continuing a highly sensitive repatri...

FRANCE 24 speaks to Gabriel Noronha, who was working at the US State Department on communications with Iran until several days ago. Noronha...

Qatar and Saudi Arabia reopened their land border Saturday as they restored ties following a landmark deal to end a three and a half year r...

A year after Iran’s military mistakenly downed Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 with two surface-to-air missiles, the answers tha...

Canada and other nations whose citizens died in Iran's downing of a Ukrainian jetliner one year ago on Friday called on Tehran to come clea...

In Iraq, the looting of artefacts has been on the rise since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Due to the coronavirus, few tourists or fo...

Israel has vaccinated a higher proportion of its population against the coronavirus than any other country in the world. It has been transp...

A machine developed by an Israeli firm that can turn air into water using only the power of the sun is helping to bring much-needed drinkin...

Qatar’s ruling emir arrived in Saudi Arabia for a Gulf summit and was greeted with an embrace by the kingdom's crown prince on Tuesday, fol...

Saudi Arabia will reopen its borders and airspace to Qatar, the Kuwaiti foreign minister said Monday, more than three years after Riyadh se...

Iran on Monday said it started enriching uranium up to 20% purity at its Fordow facility, in its biggest breach of a 2015 nuclear deal thre...

One million people had received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine as of Friday in Israel, which has a population of slightly more than 9...

Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it intends to produce uranium enriched to up to 20 percent purity, well beyon...

A former U.S. Navy analyst who served 30 years in prison for spying for Israel moved there on Wednesday and was welcomed with a prayer of t...

Rights groups on Tuesday demanded that Palestinian authorities free a woman disc jockey arrested after a dance event at a Muslim religious...

Yemeni men, women and children filled a hall earlier this month in rebel-held Sanaa, laughing and clapping as actors took to the stage with...

Bethlehem on Thursday ushered in Christmas Eve with a stream of joyous marching bands and the triumphant arrival of the top Catholic clergy...