Obsessively checking negative news online feels like something that should be avoided – but it is strangely soothing for many. Doomscrolling – or the compulsion to check bad news online without pause – saw a rise during the pandemic, and it is now a habit that many cannot seem to let go of. In the…

El-Sisi, speaking at a joint news conference with Erdogan in Cairo, says Egypt seeks to raise trade volume with Turkey to $15bn over the next few years. Egypt’s el-Sisi says he looks forward to accepting President Erdogan’s invitation to visit Turkey in April to strengthen bilateral relations. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on…

President Biden and former President Donald Trump were both investigated over their handling of classified documents, but only one of them has been charged. Unlike Trump, who faces felony charges for mishandling sensitive materials retrieved at his Mar-a-Lago property, a Special Counsel decided criminal charges for Biden weren’t warranted. WSJ’s Aruna Viswanatha explains the differences…

President Mahmoud Abbas called on Hamas to “quickly complete” the prisoner-captive truce agreement and spare Palestinians another Nakba in Rafah. Palestinians refer to the Nakba, or catastrophe, to indicate the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, when Zionist forces declared the establishment of the state of Israel and expelled at least 750,000 people from their…

For the first time in over a decade the presidents of Turkey and Egypt have met in Cairo. The meeting of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is seen as a step towards strengthening previously strained relations between both countries. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook…

More than 100 million fingers are expected to take a dip in purple ink across Indonesia, as voters turn out for the world’s largest single-day election. But the person who might have the most sway is someone who isn’t even on the ballot: Indonesia’s current president, Joko Widodo. So how much change can Indonesians expect?…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived in Egypt for the first time in 12 years to strengthen relations. The relationship between the two countries has only recently started to improve after years of tensions. Erdogan and Sisi are expected to discuss trade, and the war on Gaza. Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu has the latest…

At least four people have been killed and 11 wounded in two Israeli air raids on the towns of Souaneh and Adshit, in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s civil defence. One woman and her two children were killed in Souaneh, while one person was killed in Adshit. The Israeli military is launching retaliatory attacks, after…