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June 16th, 2026 - 06:52 GMT

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Iraqi PM Ali al-Zaidi to visit White House in July

ALBAWABA - Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi will be heading to the United States for an official visit in mid-July, according to a joint announcement by the Iraqi government and the US embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday. AFP reported that U.S. President Donald Trump will host al-Zaidi at the White House next month. The announcement comes amid U.S. envoy Tom Barrack's visit to Iraq. He arrived on Monday to inform ...

An Algerian man casts his ballot at a polling station in the capital Algiers during a vote for a revised constitution, on November 1, 2020. Polls opened in Algeria today for a vote on a revised constitution the regime hopes will neutralise a protest movement which at its peak last year swept long-time president Abdelaziz Bouteflika from power. RYAD KRAMDI / AFP

November 1st, 2020 - 11:33 GMT

Around 24 Million Vote on Algeria's Revised Constitution

In this file photo taken on November 4, 2017, a demonstrator attends a rally to mark the 22nd anniversary of the assassination of former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. JACK GUEZ / AFP

November 1st, 2020 - 11:30 GMT

'Israel Will be Wiped Off The Map' Despite Normalizing With Arab States - Iraqi Politician

People hold caricatures of French President Emmanuel Macron during a demonstration on October 30, 2020 in Istanbul amid anger in the Islamic world over French President's defence of the right to publish cartoons seen as offencive to Islam. Yasin AKGUL / AFP

November 1st, 2020 - 09:44 GMT

To Al-Jazeera Macron Says He Can Understand People Can be 'Shocked' by The Cartoons But 'it's Our Duty to Protect Our Freedoms'

Palestinian demonstrators lift placards protesting the Sudan normalisation agreement with Israel, in Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2020. Sudan and Israel agreed on October 23 to normalise relations, in a US-brokered deal to end decades of hostility that was widely welcomed but stirred Palestinian anger. SAID KHATIB / AFP

November 1st, 2020 - 08:42 GMT

Sudan's 'Hefty' Payment Means its No Longer on The US 'Terror List'

Members of Lebanon's security forces deploy amid clashes with demonstrators at a rally called by an Islamist group to protest comments by the French President seen as offensive to Islam, near the residence of the French Ambassador in the capital Beirut, on October 30, 2020. (AFP)

November 1st, 2020 - 07:19 GMT

Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Accuses Politicians of 'Killing The Country's People'

A Yemeni man holds up pictures of Huthi rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Huthi (L) and chief of the Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah during a ceremony marking the birth anniversary of Islam's Prophet Mohammad, known in Arabic as "Mawlid al-Nabawi", in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on October 29, 2020. Mohammed HUWAIS / AFP

October 31st, 2020 - 05:29 GMT

Hezbollah Faces a New Reality After The Israeli-Arab Normalization Deals

Rescue workers search for survivors in a collapsed building after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey's western coast and parts of Greece, in Izmir, in the early hours of October 31, 2020. A powerful earthquake hit Turkey and Greece on October 30, killing at least 26 people, levelling buildings and creating a sea surge that flooded streets near the Turkish resort city of Izmir. OZAN KOSE / AFP

October 31st, 2020 - 05:20 GMT

Turkey: 24 Killed, Over 800 Injured in Earthquake

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October 29th, 2020 - 11:06 GMT

Political Prisoner Found Dead in His Cell in an Egyptian Jail

It comes amid anger at France from across the Islamic world after president Emmanuel Macron staunchly defended the blasphemous Prophet Mohammed cartoons. (AFP)

October 29th, 2020 - 11:02 GMT

Man Stabs Guard at French Consulate in Saudi Arabia

Iraqi youths carry a national flag as they walk past a mural painting in the capital Baghdad's Tahrir Square on October 28, 2020, during a cleanup operation by security forces allowing roads around the city centre, the scene of anti-government protests, to reopen. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP

October 29th, 2020 - 10:08 GMT

One Year On: What Happened to The Iraqi Protests?

In this file photo taken on September 7, 2019, a fighter loyal to the internationally recognised Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) fires his gun during clashes with forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar in the capital Tripoli's suburb of Ain Zara. Libya's two warring factions signed a "permanent" ceasefire agreement following five days of talks at the United Nations. Mahmud TURKIA / AFP

October 29th, 2020 - 10:03 GMT

The UN Urges Libyan Parties to Abide by The Ceasefire Accord They Signed

A general view of construction works at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba in Ethiopia. (AFP)

October 29th, 2020 - 07:34 GMT

Will Sudan, Egypt Ever Agree on Ethiopia's Nile Dam?