A Kuwaiti court Sunday sentenced in absentia a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death by hanging over the murder of a Filipina maid, a judicial source said. The court issued the sentence in the first hearing in the case of Joanna Demafelis, the 29-year-old maid whose body was found...

A fire broke out at the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeidah early Saturday, destroying warehouses filled with cooking fuel and foodstuffs, port workers said. They told Reuters that, as of 1100 GMT, fire trucks had not been able to put out the blaze in the warehousing area, which they...

Saudi air defense forces intercepted a missile fired by Houthi fighters in neighbouring Yemen at the southern city of Najran on Saturday, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television reported. Al Arabiya gave no further details. The Houthi-run Saba news agency earlier said a ballistic missile was...

France on Thursday accused Iran of supplying weapons to Houthi rebels fighting a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. "There is a problem in Yemen, it is that the political process has not begun, that Saudi Arabia feels regularly attacked by the Houthis, who are themselves supplied with arms...