Hashem Ahelbarra

The In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Jus­tice is to is­sue its ver­dict on a dis­pute over Qatar air­space rights.

UAE-backed south­ern sep­a­ratists in Yemen seize con­trol of the strate­gic So­co­tra is­land from the Sau­di Ara­bi­an-backed gov­ern­ment.

It has been three years since an air, land and sea block­ade was im­posed on Qatar by Gulf coun­tries Sau­di Ara­bia, the UAE and Bahrain, as well as Egypt.

Meet SAVR, Syn­chro­nous Au­to­mat­ic Ven­ti­lat­ing Res­pi­ra­tors, a ven­ti­la­tor man­u­fac­tured in Doha. The ma­chine is equipped with sen­sors to alert med­ical staff in case the lung func­tions of a coro­n­avirus pa­tient is de­te­ri­o­rat­ing.

As Mus­lims around the world be­gin to ob­serve Ra­madan by fast­ing the virus pan­dem­ic is al­ter­ing re­li­gious tra­di­tions.

Afghans have lived for decades through wars and now they are brac­ing for an­oth­er chal­lenge which threat­ens mil­lions of peo­ple.

Re­gion­al gov­ern­ments have im­posed re­stric­tions, cur­fews or bor­der clo­sures, but the ef­fec­tive­ness is yet to be seen.

NATO has held an emer­gency meet­ing to dis­cuss the cri­sis in Idlib.

Sup­port­ed by Turkey, op­po­si­tion forces went into Saraqeb overnight, re­vers­ing one of the main gains of the Syr­i­an forces.

At least one mil­lion are leav­ing the em­bat­tled province as hun­dreds of thou­sands are strand­ed on bor­der with Turkey.