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Two million people in Japan were told Saturday to seek shelter before the arrival of Typhoon Nanmadol, national broadcaster NHK said, as the weather agency issued a rare “special warning” about the powerful storm. NHK, which compiles alerts issued by l…

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid is to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, as relations between the two countries thaw. Lapid’s office said he would travel to New York on Monday night, ah…

Dressed in black, 21 million pilgrims from around the world massed in the Iraqi city of Karbala on Saturday for the Arbaeen commemoration, against the backdrop of a political crisis. Arbaeen marks the end of the 40-day mourning period for the 7th-centu…

The EU presidency on Saturday called for the establishment of an international tribunal for war crimes after new mass graves were found in Ukraine. “In the 21st century, such attacks against the civilian population are unthinkable and abhorrent,” said …

Five people have died of Cholera in the Deir al-Zor province in Syria, The New Arab’s Arabic-language service Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported on Saturday. The deaths have occurred in the western areas of the province under the control of the Autonomous Adm…

President Tayyip Erdogan said he was targeting membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) for NATO-member Turkey, broadcaster NTV and other media said on Saturday. He was speaking to reporters after attending the SCO summit in Uzbekistan…

Kurdish forces innortheast Syria on Saturday announced the end of a three-week operation against Islamic State group supporters inside the overcrowded and increasingly lawless camp of Al-Hol. They arrested more than 200 people, including dozens of wome…

Egypt said on Saturday that it will increase transit fees for vessels, including oil-laden tankers, passing through Suez Canal, one of the world’s most crucial waterways. The Suez Canal Authority said in a statement on Saturday that it will add 15 perc…

Iranians have called for the abolition of the so-called morality police after a 22-year-old woman was killed in police custody when she was arrested for not wearing ‘proper hijab’. Mahsa Amini, 22, was on a visit with her family to the Iranian capital …

Libya’s Khalifa Haftar faces a fresh US lawsuit from the Libyan-American Alliance (LAA), accusing the Gaddafi-era general of deliberately bombing a military college in the capital of Tripoli in January 2020. The LAA is representing three families whose…