The man who slapped French President Emmanuel Macron during an appearance in Southern France earlier this week was sentenced to four months in prison...

Israel must speed up reconstruction of the Gaza Strip if it wants the cease-fire to continue, a senior figure from the Hamas movement said early Friday...

Ethiopian government forces summarily executed a 17-year-old boy in Ethiopia’s Oromia region in broad daylight, Human Rights Watch said today...

Turkey has administered over 31.75 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines since it launched a mass vaccination campaign in mid-January, according to official figures released on Wednesday...

India registered 94,052 new COVID-19 cases and 6,148 deaths on Thursday, the Health Ministry announced -- the highest number of deaths in the country since the start of the pandemic, but perhaps owing to a statistical anomaly...

The Queen will host US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden for tea at Windsor Castle this Sunday following the G7 summit, royal officials confirmed today...

A Russian court has outlawed the political movement of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny as an "extremist" organization, attracting the condemnation of Western nations...

In his struggle to remain Israeli prime minister, Benyamin Netanyahu is following the destructive policies his friend and ally Donald Trump has adopted to reclaim the presidency in the US...

Five lawmakers yesterday submitted a draft law stipulating basic rights for thousands of stateless people or bedoons, several hours after a Bedoon man in his 60s tried to immolate himself...

If history is any kind of guide, then, Russian and American leaders will try to reinforce their respective spheres of influence in different parts of the world...

Amnesty International has raised the alarm at the “catastrophic consequences” of Israel’s closure of the Palestinian Health Work Committees (HWC)’s headquarters, urging the regime to immediately reverse the decision...

Syria has categorically rejected remarks by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, reiterating that the land was and will remain a “Syrian Arab” territory...

Myanmar’s junta has filed a new corruption charge against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the latest in a series of allegations to have been leveled against her by the military rulers since she was toppled in a coup in February...

Tim Lenderking, US special envoy to Yemen, on Wednesday condemned “brutal” Houthi attacks on civilian targets in the central province of Marib, including Saturday’s missile strike on a gas station...

Oman’s daily infection rate has more than tripled in the past 30 days, with the number of people testing positive with COVID-19 approaching 2,000 this week, national daily Times of Oman reported, citing the country’s Ministry of Health...

Conflicting reports emerged Wednesday evening on whether or not the current government formation efforts have made progress...

Baghdad International Airport was targeted by unmanned aerial vehicles early Thursday.  Another rocket attack targeting a base inside Baghdad International Airport that hosts US-led coalition troops...

The US administration of Joe Biden will purchase 500  million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine to donate globally, according to a report Wednesday...

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians during a raid early Thursday in the West Bank city of Jenin and left another wounded...

The president of the Palestinian Authority allegedly approved a $42,000 (£30,000) payment to the family of a killer who stabbed two Israelis to death in 2015...