The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) welcomed the ruling issued yesterday by the French Court of Cassation in its favour.The ruling rejected the appe...

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Palestinian politician Sami Abu Shehadeh withdrew from Israel’s upcoming election.

US President Donald Trump says Europe agreed to release a ‘massive amount’ of diesel from emergency stockpiles.

The diplomatic fallout comes as Ethiopian forces battle rebel fighters across its northern region.

A voter mobilisation campaign has registered huge numbers of young people but it is not clear who they are backing.

Israel's prime minister says the pilot who tried to take over the Flydubai plane clearly intended to "down the plane".

A pilot who stabbed another pilot on an Israel-bound plane is being investigated in Saudi Arabia, Benjamin Netanyahu says.

Pakistan sent four planeloads of weapons to Saudi-backed government in Yemen: Report Pakistan sent four cargo planes of armaments to the Saudi-backed, internationally recognised government of Yemen in September as the kingdom mobilises to try to push back a sweeping Houthi offensive. The Pakistani weapons shipments to the port city of Aden, reported by Reuters on Friday, suggest that Islamabad is increasing its involvement in the war. Pakistan delivered air defence systems, light artillery, drones and anti-drone systems to Aden, Reuters reported, citing a Pakistani government official. In addition, Pakistani military advisers are also on the ground with their Saudi counterparts supporting Yemeni troops. Multiple western and Arab officials have told Middle East Eye that Saudi Arabia is preparing for a high-intensity campaign to counter a Houthi offensive that has put the group in control of the entirety of Yemen’s Red Sea coastline. Read more: Pakistan sent four planeloads of weapons to Saudi-backed government in Yemen: Report This picture taken during a tour for foreign media organised by the Saudi-backed Yemeni government shows Yemeni forces inside a military camp in the southern Hadramawt province, on 20 January 2026 (Fadel Senna/AFP)

US sends additional Patriot batteries to Saudi Arabia and Qatar: Report Submitted by MEE staff on Fri, 10/02/2026 - 20:15 Deployments come as the US deploys a new aircraft carrier and thousands of marines to the region US and Israeli army officers walk in front of a US Patriot missile defence system during the joint Israeli-US military exercise 'Juniper Cobra' at the Israeli Hatzor Air Force Base, on 8 March 2018 (Jack Guez/AFP) Off The US has deployed additional Patriot air defence batteries to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as President Donald Trump says he is weighing whether to resume attacking Iran. The US sent one additional Patriot battery to Saudi Arabia to protect a key oil facility and another to Qatar to protect a natural gas facility, Axios reported Thursday. The deployments are notable because Patriot batteries are in high demand worldwide, and the US has a limited supply. The US has just 33 batteries stationed at home and 27 batteries stationed overseas, according to the nonprofit Missile Defence Alliance. The US’s allies, including Gulf states like Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, already operate their own batteries, but have relied on Washington for additional protection as they have borne the brunt of Iran’s retaliation for US and Israeli attacks. Saudi Arabia is in a particularly difficult position with its energy infrastructure and cities coming under attack from Houthi fighters in Yemen and Shia militias in Iraq. The kingdom attributed an attack on its East-West Pipeline to the latter, although the Houthis have also attacked Yanbu, the kingdom’s main oil export port. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Gulf states felt sidelined by the US earlier this year when they faced intense Iranian barrages in response to the US-Israeli war on Iran. The US’s decades-old security umbrella that underwrote its relationship with the energy-rich Gulf has come under scrutiny as a result of the war. The latest deployments come as Trump says he is weighing new strikes on Iran, calling a new escalation “possible” on Thursday. “Now I have to make a decision; they’ll either sign a very fair deal, or they won’t exist any longer,” he said, reiterating his threat to destroy the Islamic Republic. The US is sending thousands of troops and a third aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East. The aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt, departed from San Diego on Sunday, and the USS Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, comprising three amphibious ships carrying around 10,000 Marines, left on Monday.  The US already has the USS George HW Bush and USS George Washington in the region, which would bring the total number of aircraft carriers in the region to three, the highest since April 2026. War on Iran News Post Date Override 0 Update Date Mon, 05/04/2020 - 21:19 Update Date Override 0

In recent months, the eastern Central African Republic has been hit by several attacks attributed to the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan militia infamous for its massacres and mass abductions of children in the 1990s and 2000s. The group's leader, Joseph Kony, wanted by the International Criminal Court for more than 20 years, remains at large. FRANCE 24 spoke to Leonie von Braun, the ICC’s lead investigator on the Kony case, about the group's resurgence.

It's been 18 days since we first reported on isolated cases of schools protests at a high school in Rennes in Brittany, in Caen in Normandy and Villeneueve d'Asque on the suburbs of Lille. The complaints were similar in theme, overloaded timetables, staffing problems, poor facilities. It spread to Saint Denis and Creteil on the outskirts of Paris days later, one interview with the students was sen 1.4 million times on TikTok. It gathered pace, and morphed into what we've seen throughout the week, hundreds of protests, some peaceful, some with deeply distressing scenes, beyond the make shift barricades, a school in Nantes set off fire, firefighters forced out of the vehicle in Marseille and the fire engine set alight, scroll your socials itt's hard to miss some of the uglier scenes, a female police officer being attacked on the ground as youths shouted kill her. Where is it heading, and what has it become? Urban violence says the government, accusing agitators linked to the hard left exploiting geenuine concerns for political ends ahead of the election. Which La France Insoumise denies saying they favour no violent means of action.  Today in Spotlight, we discuss this with Jean Remi Girard, a teacher in Asnieres in the north of Paris, and the President of the National Union des Lycees and Colleges, covering education workers from primary schools to college, 7 until 18.

Three Israeli strikes in Gaza City and central Gaza killed three people and wounded at least one other on Friday, according to health officials at Gaza’s hospitals. Two strikes in Gaza City killed one person each, while another strike in central Gaza killed a third, officials said. Israel’s military acknowledged carrying out the strikes, saying that it was hitting militants in those areas, without elaborating. Israeli forces have killed more than 1,400 people in Gaza since a ceasefire was announ

LONDON: An online fundraiser to support the UK Supreme Court challenge to the ban on Palestine Action has been blocked due to US sanctions against the group. UK company CrowdJustice declined to host the crowdfunding campaign because it uses US company Stripe as a payment processor, The Guardian reported on Friday. The campaign sought to raise funds toward legal fees in the campaign to fight Palestine Action’s proscription in the UK. The Guardian gained access to an email sent by CrowdJustice. It

Haiti's gang violence crisis has left at least 5,700 people dead or wounded this year while more than 1,000 women and girls have been raped, UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Friday

Yemen's Houthis and Saudi-backed forces fought over an area located not far from a waterway that is crucial to global energy flows, killing 80 combatants over the past day, sources on both sides told AFP on Friday