Al-Araby

Egypt’s annual inflation rate continues to surge amid Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine that has shaken the global economy, the country’s statistics bureau announced Tuesday. The inflation rate was up 2.8%, reaching around 14.9% in April, up from 12.1% i…

Iran’s judiciary dismissed Tuesday the possibility of a prisoner swap that would see a former Iranian official on trial for war crimes in Stockholm released in exchange for a Swedish-Iranian academic on death row. The two cases “have nothing to do with…

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has called on international donors to “ramp up” efforts to alleviate suffering in Syria, warning that Ukraine should not divert attention away from the war-torn nation. The IRC said that humanitarian needs “have…

Britney Spears has announced another milestone in her post-conservatorship life and said that she and her fiancee Sam Asghari have set a wedding date, months after getting engaged. Spears, 40, and Asghari, 28, got engaged in September. “Introducing Wen…

Moroccan Pro-Palestine activists held an urgent press conference on Monday to condemn the escalating normalisation with Israel, days after the Jewish community in the Moroccan kingdom hosted a celebration of Israel’s independence. “To shed light on the…

Ever since the eruption of the Second Palestinian Intifada in 2000, which began when Israeli forced killed Palestinians protesting against the provocative visit by Israel’s opposition leader at the time Ariel Sharon to the al-Aqsa mosque compound, a no…

Pro-Palestinian party Sinn Fein is set to become Northern Ireland’s biggest, following the UK local and regional elections results on Friday. It made history by becoming the first nationalist party to win the most seats in the Northern Irish assembly, …

Tunisian tennis champion Ons Jabeur has been hailed for refusing to raise a champagne bottle after winning the biggest title of her career at last week’s Madrid Open. Jabeur, the first Arab player in history to secure a top-10 professional ranking, bea…

The United States will take steps to increase pressure on Afghanistan’s Taliban government to reverse some of its recent decisions restricting the rights of women and girls if the hardline group shows no sign of rescinding the actions on its own. “We’v…

Iran’s president said on Monday that the country is exporting twice as much oil as when he took office in August, despite heavy sanctions on oil exports imposed by the US. Ebrahim Raisi made the claim in a live interview on state-run TV without elabora…