With China and Russia pushing their weight around the region, any further delays on a nuclear deal with Iran will end up costing the US dearly...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lawyers on Wednesday asked the Jerusalem District Court to excuse the premier from attending court hearings beginning next week in his corruption trial...

The Justice Ministry is set to be left without a justice minister as of midnight Thursday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prevents an appointment to the post, in a move precipitating chaos and confusion in the judiciary just days before his corr...

A judge in Hong Kong on Thursday convicted seven pro-democracy protest leaders, including media tycoon Jimmy Lai, on charges of organizing and participating in an unlawful assembly during mass protests that rocked the former British colony in 2019...

Europe's vaccine roll-out has been condemned for being 'unacceptably slow' and blamed for 'prolonging the pandemic' by the World Health Organisation...

A WHO advisor has slammed his own organization's new report on the origins of Covid-19, after it concluded that it was 'extremely unlikely' the virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China...

As the Arctic cap thaws thanks to global warming, Russia seeks to promote an alternative trading route after the recent blockage in one of the world's most strategic waterways...

The grounding of the cargo ship Ever Given in the Suez Canal last week serves as a good opportunity to focus our minds on the future of the waterway and the wider Red Sea region...

Thousands of people fleeing an attack claimed by Daesh-linked militants have made their way to safety elsewhere in northern Mozambique, aid workers said, while a small group of victims arrived by boat in neighbouring Tanzania...

The Amman Court of First Instance heard two prosecution witnesses in the case of the oxygen outage at the New Salt Public Hospital, which resulted in the death of seven patients last month...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has emphasised the need for large-scale border access to allow humanitarian aid into Syria...

Authorities in western Libya have released more than 100 prisoners who had been captured while fighting under the banner of the country's eastern-based warlord, in a gesture of reconciliation following recent accords, officials said...

The top Pentagon general has called counterparts in Russia and Ukraine as the US Defense Department expressed concerns about a reported buildup of Russian troops along Ukraine's border and in Crimea...

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny has announced that he has gone on hunger strike until he receives proper medical treatment for severe back pain and numbness in his legs...

“There is no human trafficking in Kuwait. The defendants in 30 labor recruitment cases were convicted as visa traders...

The Supreme Committee for the Management of the Coronavirus Crisis in Egypt agreed, during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, to allow prayer in mosques as well as Tarawih prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, provided that all...

Pfizer has slammed the extended powers allowing the EU to block exports of its vaccines and claims the move has 'caused a significant administrative burden' to the rollout of the vaccine...

The secretary general of Lebanon' Hezbollah movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, urged Saudi Arabia to immediately end its war on Yemen and lift the blockade on its southern neighbor...

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a plan to widen lockdown measures that have been in place for the Paris region and some other regions to the entire country starting on Saturday...

Nearly 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine were ruined due to a factory error in the United States, dealing a blow to the company's efforts to quickly boost production...