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AOHR to adopt proposal for launching AFSI

Date: 2022-06-09 10:21:22 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:36 - ID:9613606

CAIRO, June 9 (MENA) - The Arab Observatory for Human Rights announced it will adopt a proposal for launching the Arab Food Security Index. The index aims to find an Arab mechanism to follow up on the food security index in Arab countries, based ....

Arabia welcomes decision of IAEA that Iran should abide by its commitments

Date: 2022-06-08 22:51:30 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:113 - ID:9613195

RIYADH, June 8 (MENA) – Saudi Foreign Ministry welcomed a decision of the board of governors of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that reiterates that Iran should abide by its commitments in the warranty agreement and the necessity to ....

Arab, European officials welcome expanding Euro-Arab partnership to address common challenges

Date: 2022-06-08 19:42:50 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:96 - ID:9612929

CAIRO, June 8 (MENA) - Members of the Council of the EU Political and Security Committee and the Permanent Representatives to the League of Arab States asserted the importance of joint action to deal with the political, economic, social, and ....

Morocco reports 938 new infections, no deaths in 24 hours

Date: 2022-06-08 18:34:43 GMT - Morocco - Arab world - SN:88 - ID:9612978

RABAT, June 8 (MENA) - Morocco registered 938 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, bringing the country's total to 1,172,910, the health ministry said in a statement Wednesday. The statement added that no deaths related to ....

Algeria suspends treaty of friendship, cooperation with Spain

Date: 2022-06-08 16:41:10 GMT - Algeria - Arab world - SN:74 - ID:9612829

ALGIERS, June 8 (MENA) - Algeria suspended on Wednesday its 20-year-old treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and cooperation with Spain. Tension has been running high between Algiers and Madrid over the Spanish comments on Western Sahara as ....

Saudi Arabia, S.Korea discuss cultural cooperation

Date: 2022-06-08 15:44:47 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:68 - ID:9612686

RIYADH/SEOUL, June 8 (MENA) - Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan, Minister of Culture of Saudi Arabia, had talks in Seoul with Korean Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Bo Gyoon, during the prince’s visit to Korea with the aim of ....

AL welcomes report by UN committee on occupied Palestinian territories

Date: 2022-06-08 13:52:15 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:56 - ID:9612100

CAIRO, June 8 (MENA) - The Arab League welcomed the first report issued Tuesday by the United Nations-affiliated international investigation committee concerned with the occupied Palestinian territories. The report stressed that the continued ....

Intensive efforts to put out fire in Lebanon forest

Date: 2022-06-08 10:29:43 GMT - Lebanon - Arab world - SN:35 - ID:9611828

BEIRUT, June 8 (MENA) - The Lebanese Army on Wednesday announced that helicopters, supported by other military units, were contributing to the massive efforts to extinguish the unruly fire that broke out last night in pine trees at the forests of ....

OIC condemns deadly attack on church in Nigeria

Date: 2022-06-08 10:15:26 GMT - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - Arab world - SN:33 - ID:9611843

RIYADH, June 8 (MENA) - The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned in the strongest terms the brutal attack on churchgoers, in the Southwest region of Nigeria, on Sunday, killing at least 50 people ....

UN envoy to Yemen urges seriously, urgently handling UN proposal to reopen Taiz roads

Date: 2022-06-08 08:15:36 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:20 - ID:9611380

SANAA, June 8 (MENA) - The United Nations (UN) Envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg urged all Yemeni parties to seriously and urgently handle the UN proposal to gradually reopen the roads in Taiz and other governorates including the mechanism to implement ....