The European Union's latest strategy to defuse tensions with Turkey is unravelling, two weeks after it was sealed, raising the risk of conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean, diplomats, officials and experts said. Despite an EU summit deal in the early hours of Oct. 2 aimed at persuading...

Over 63,000 new infections have taken India’s coronavirus count past 7.2 million, authorities said on Wednesday, as more doctors in the capital New Delhi stopped working for pending salaries. A total of 63,509 more cases were registered over the past 24 hours, raising the overall tally to...

Turkey's president said on Wednesday that the country had found new natural gas reserves in the Black Sea. Speaking to the parliamentary group of his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the July 20 find of 320 billion cubic meters in reserves by Turkey's...

Israel approved 2,166 new homes in settlements across the occupied West Bank Wednesday, official figures sent to AFP showed, ending an eight-month lull in settlement expansion. The approvals came less than a month after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements to normalise...