Israeli settlers have escalated their daily raids into the al-Aqsa mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem al-Quds in the last couple of days during their celebrations of one of the Jewish holidays known as “Passover”...

A suspected foreign jihadist blew herself and her little girl up with an explosives belt as security forces closed in in mountains of central Tunisia, the interior ministry said on Friday...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told his Israeli counterpart that Israelis and Palestinians should enjoy "equal measures" of freedom, security, prosperity and democracy...

The US Capitol is in lockdown after a suspect mowed down and stabbed two cops on Friday afternoon, leaving them in critical condition, before being shot dead...

Egypt wants over $1 billion in compensation after a cargo ship blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week, a top canal official has said...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on right-wing parties on Wednesday to join him in a governing coalition, in his first speech since elections last week...

Dozens of people are feared dead after a packed train derailed inside a tunnel in Taiwan at the start of a long holiday weekend, with rescuers still scrambling to reach others trapped inside...

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...