A series of momentous social and economic reforms has seen Saudi Arabia evolve faster in the past few years than it has in decades...

Israeli police detained seven Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a police statement on Monday...

Boris Johnson today cancelled his trip to India saying it was the only 'sensible' course of action amid surging coronavirus cases and alarm about a new variant...

As India recorded a fresh daily high of over 273,000 coronavirus cases over the 24 hours, the government in the national capital New Delhi on Monday announced a weeklong lockdown to curb the spread of the virus...

The Italian anti-mafia commission is probing whether crime syndicates are intervening in the country's vaccine distribution...

Russia has expelled 20 Czech diplomats in retaliation for a slew of diplomatic expulsions by Prague and gave the affected Czech diplomats just over 24 hours to leave the country, the RIA news agency quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying...

Israel and Greece have signed their biggest ever defence procurement deal, which Israel said on Sunday would strengthen political and economic ties between the countries...

Israel's Crossings Authority will hold a security drill at the Jordan Valley crossing between 5:00 and 11:00 p...

Ethiopia has declared a state of emergency in the southern part of Amhara regional state amid violence in various towns...

Amid reports jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny was close to death, the United States warned Russia on Sunday there will be consequences if he dies...

Former President George W. Bush on Sunday called on Congress to set aside "harsh rhetoric" surrounding U...

At least 7,000 refugees from the Central African Republic have arrived in Chad for the past few days, the UN refugee agency said on Sunday...

A senior leader of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, says the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails is a top priority for the people of Palestine, stressing that the movement is determined to secure their freedom...

Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil on Sunday lashed out at what he called the “corrupt system...

MPs Elias Bou Saab and Alain Aoun and President Michel Aoun’s adviser Salim Jreissati have convinced the president to shelve the proposed amendments to Decree 6433 to give a chance to the resumption of sea border negotiations with Israel, media rep...

The Syrian regime will stage a rubber-stamp election on May 26 to reelect Bashar Assad as president in a process described by the opposition and the US as a farce...

A Ukrainian soldier was killed and another injured on Sunday due to shelling by Russia-backed separatists in the eastern Donbas region...

The EU called on Sunday Russian authorities to provide medical treatment to opposition figure Alexey Navalny...

At least 11 people have been killed and 98 left injured in Egypt after four carriages on a passenger train derailed, Egyptian authorities said...

Casualties were reported as a train derailed just north of the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday. According to a statement from the National Railways Authority of Egypt, the Cairo-Mansura passenger train 949 went off the tracks in the city of Qalyubi...