Libyans hope a new political transitional can unite the country and bring about a reconciliation process – but many hurdles remain...

UN human rights experts urged Israel on Monday to end torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment universally prohibited under international law...

Dozens of supporters of Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko have clashed with police in the capital Dakar after a beautician accused the politician of rape...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s call for elections has thrown his political future into peril, forcing him to negotiate competing demands to engage with a friendlier US administration, mend the rift with his militant Hamas rivals and keep his...

WHO: Variants raise questions about vaccines The head of the World Health Organization has said the emergence of new Covid-19 variants has raised questions about whether or not existing vaccines will work, calling it "concerning news" that the vacci...

Lebanon’s top Christian cleric Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai, called on Sunday for organising a UN-sponsored international conference on Lebanon with the aim of controlling the spread of weapons, in an apparent reference to Hezbollah’s arsenal...

Calls for a civil disobedience campaign in Myanmar has gathered pace as the United States formally declared the military's takeover a coup and vowed further penalties for the generals behind the putsch...

The US’s recent positions on the Yemeni file encouraged UN Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths to expose the Iranian role, and treat Tehran as a decisive party in ending the conflict in the war-torn country...

French health minister Olivier Veran has received the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine today as he praised the jab for providing sufficient protection against 'nearly all the variants' of the coronavirus...

Amnesty International France has condemned the "arbitrary" arrests of dozens of people during a protest against a controversial security bill that would place restrictions on filming French police...

Political prisoners lodged in Egyptian prisons have sought the intervention of US President Joe Biden to end human rights violations in their country and to seek their release...

Egypt worries recent unfavourable US statements and stances towards Saudi Arabia could be a harbinger of a clash to come with Washington...

Israel approved a plan late Sunday to strengthen its air forces with billions of dollars in US warplanes and advanced military equipment...

Israel’s security cabinet has approved a major arms deal worth billions of dollars with the United States to receive new fighter jets, refueling planes and heavy-lift helicopters...

Joe Biden has said Iran must cut its uranium enrichment before any return to talks over the regime’s nuclear program...

Somalia's opposition leaders have announced that they no longer recognize Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed as president, after his term expired without a political agreement on how to choose a new leader...

Under heavy security and after several delays due to the coronavirus lockdown, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived Monday morning at the Jerusalem District Court for a much-anticipated court hearing in his corruption trial, focusing on his and ...

Safe reopening of various sectors is part of a comprehensive strategy to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, which includes securing the necessary vaccines for the biggest percentage of residents, Health Minister Nathir Obeidat said on Sunday...

Conjoined twins born in Sana’a in mid-December last year have been medically evacuated to Amman, Jordan, where they will undergo a separation surgery, starting with an assessment...

A forum was held in Khartoum on Saturday to support the normalization of relations between Sudan and Israel, in the first such move in the country, reported Anadolu Agency...