The European Union has agreed a sanctions framework designed to target key figures in the conflict in Sudan in an attempt to quell the ongoing tension.

The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution to extend sanctions against several leaders and top officials of Yemen’s Ansarullah.

Russia’s defense minister has lambasted barring Russians from entering the EU as an “act of Nazism.”

A group of Japanese tourists have traveled to Iran after a two-year standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic which ground the entire tourism sector to a halt worldwide.

China has condemned the new travel bans, imposed by the United States against Chinese officials over alleged human rights violations, as interference in its internal affair, warning of reciprocal measures.

Nearly two dozen Members of the European Parliament have jointly called on Israeli authorities to ensure Palestinian journalists’ freedom of movement across the occupied territories.

A Lebanese prosecutor has issued a travel ban against Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, who is among the top Lebanese officials widely blamed for an unprecedented financial crisis in Lebanon.