An Egyptian court yesterday fined prominent human rights activist Hossam Bahgat for “insulting” the country’s electoral commission on social media, a judicial source said.

Israel yesterday cautioned world powers to beware of what it described as Iranian “nuclear blackmail” as diplomats convened in Vienna to discuss resurrecting a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reaffirmed Bangladesh's position for the establishment of a sovereign, independent, and the viable state of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Riot police were deployed in force yesterday in the Iranian city of Isfahan, a day after violent protests over the drying up of a lifeblood river.

Iran has accused the UN’s nuclear agency of bowing to pressure from its Western financiers to “discriminate” against Tehran, as strains persist ahead of new talks to revive the 2015 atomic deal.

Tunisian authorities said yesterday they had rescued almost 500 migrants whose boat ran into trouble off the North African country’s coast during a bid to reach Europe.

Three Lebanese judges have resigned over interference by politicians in the work of the judiciary, including a probe into last year’s Beirut blast, a judicial source said Thursday.

Thousands of Sudanese protesters yesterday rallied against last month’s military power grab, rejecting an agreement struck between the top general that saw the prime minister reinstated, witnesses said.

An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced to death by hanging 22 Islamist militants for 54 attacks including the attempted assassination of a former interior minister, a judicial source told AFP.

The UN nuclear watchdog’s head yesterday said there had been “no progress” in talks with Iran to resolve disputes over the

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday signalled readiness to step up Israel’s confrontation with Iran and reiterated that his country would not be bound by any new Iranian nuclear deal with world powers.

Ten members of Iran’s military went on trial Sunday in connection with the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet in 2020, the judiciary said.

The woman who was engaged to marry Jamal Khashoggi has asked singer Justin Bieber to cancel his scheduled Dec. 5 performance in Saudi Arabia's second-largest city Jeddah, urging him to not perform for the slain Saudi journalist's "murderers."

Nearly 245,000 Lebanese living abroad have signed up to vote in next year’s parliamentary polls, Lebanon’s foreign ministry said yesterday, after it closed the window for registration.

A militant of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement yesterday opened fire in Jerusalem’s Old City, killing one person and wounding three before he was shot dead, Israeli officials, police and medics said.

Taliban begin paying salaries to govt employees

Tehran yesterday criticised as “illegitimate” a Western statement that assured Arab allies their security interests would be taken into account during talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal.

Thousands of protesters converged on Isfahan in central Iran yesterday to voice their anger after the city’s lifeblood river dried up due to drought and diversion.

Fifty migrant workers died in Qatar last year and over 500 were seriously injured, the UN’s International Labour Organization said Friday, as the Gulf nation readies for the 2022 World Cup.

Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to court for his graft trial yesterday, but judges granted a defence request to postpone highly anticipated testimony from his former spin doctor.