Revellers around the globe are bidding a weary farewell Monday to an unsettling year filled with challenges to many of the world's most...
Revellers around the globe are bidding a weary farewell Monday to an unsettling year filled with challenges to many of the world's most...
Ouagadougou: Burkina Faso is declaring a state of emergency in provinces grappling with jihadist violence, Communications Minister Remis Fulgance Dandjinou said on Monday....
BEIRUT: Nearly 20,000 people were killed in 2018 in Syria's war, the lowest annual death toll since the war began nearly eight years...
NEW YORK: Ryan Seacrest and Anderson Cooper will be there. Snoop Dogg, too. But 1 or 2 million people in New York's Times...
Damascus: Syria's army has issued demobilisation orders for a new round of men conscripted for compulsory service in 2010, a year before the...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was expected to deliver a New Year’s address Tuesday, a speech that will be closely watched for...
Kiev: Campaigning began for a key presidential vote in Ukraine on Monday with President Petro Poroshenko facing an uphill re-election battle among voters...
NEW YORK:Tens of thousands of revelers will jam into New York's Times Square on Monday to await the midnight descent of the glowing...
DUBAI: A United Arab Emirates appeals court upheld a 10-year jail sentence against pro-democracy campaigner Ahmed Mansoor for criticising the government on social...
BERLIN: German police say an 18-year-old driver trying to evade a highway patrol crashed into a stationary vehicle, killing a woman and injuring...
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran deployed scores of policemen to disperse a brief protest in downtown Tehran over a bus crash last week that killed...
Tehran: Iran's intelligence ministry said Monday it had arrested 11 "economic disruptors" who misappropriated some $400 million earmarked for essential goods and smuggled...
DAKAR, Senegal: Journalists in Gambia have launched a self-regulatory body they hope will offer legitimacy, and far more freedom, to media emerging from...
Paris: Emmanuel Macron's disgraced ex-bodyguard said he continued to exchange messages regularly with the French president even after he was forced out of...
Moscow: Four people were killed and nearly 70 unaccounted for after a gas explosion tore through a residential building in Russia on Monday,...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has ordered a slowdown to the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Syria, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday. "I...
MOSCOW: Russia's domestic security agency says it has arrested a U.S. citizen on espionage charges. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, the top...
Dhaka: Bangladesh's election chief on Monday rejected calls for a new election after widespread opposition claims of rigging in a weekend vote which...
