The foreign ministers of Iraq and Ukraine are shaking hands. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kaliba has arrived in Iraq to seek diplomatic support This is the first time that a Ukrainian foreign minister has visited Iraq since Russia invaded Ukraine last year. According to the foreign news agency, they want to get diplomatic support from…
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the Iranian Shah who was deposed in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, will visit Israel this week. This was announced by the government of Israel in a press release yesterday. The statement said that Reza Pahlavi wants to close the gap between the people of Israel and Iran. According to…
The death toll in the ongoing fighting between two factions of the army in Sudan’s capital Khartoum has risen to 97. The Arab media from Khartoum told through the Sudanese Doctor Association that 97 people have been killed and 1126 people have been injured so far in the clashes that have been going on for…
During the last decade of Ramadan, a unique record of more than 1 million pilgrims and pilgrims has been established in Masjid al-Haram (Makkah). On the night of Saturday 25th of Ramadan, 1.246 million (about twelve and a half lakh) Umrah pilgrims were present in Masjid Haram. Thus, in this Ramadan, an extraordinary number of…
Collage Photo: File Iran has officially invited Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz to visit Tehran. According to the report of the foreign news agency, the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Office, Nasser Kanani, says that Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi has sent an invitation to Saudi King Salman. He said that the Iranian president has…
There are so many conflicts, humanitarian disasters, extreme weather events and economic upheavals taking place in the world, that a new word is being used to describe the current state of affairs: the “polycrisis”. The word appeared in 2022, a year that began with tentative hopes that the global economy would begin to recover from…
Dario Jose Mejia Montalvo, Chair of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and Leader of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia. Many indigenous peoples profess a deep respect for the planet and all forms of life, and an understanding that the health of the Earth goes hand in hand with the wellbeing of humankind. This…
“I strongly condemn the outbreak of fighting that is taking place in Sudan and appeal to the leaders of the Rapid Support Forces (RAF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) to immediately cease hostilities, restore calm, and begin a dialogue to resolve the crisis,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday. Following the deaths of…
The Secretary-General pointed to reports showing that, since the pandemic, the richest one percent of people around the world have captured nearly twice as much new wealth as the rest of the world combined. Inequalities within some countries, he said, are regressing towards early 20th Century levels, a time when women did not have the…
“One year on since the parties agreed to a truce under UN auspices, Yemen is again at a critical juncture,” he said, speaking via videoconference. “I believe we have not seen such a serious opportunity for making progress towards ending the conflict in eight years. But the tide could still turn unless the parties take…
