After weeks of hesitation, the United Nations announced Wednesday that it is sending its deputy Middle East coordinator to attend the unveiling of the economic component of a new US peace plan. Jamie McGoldrick, who is also the UN's humanitarian coordinator in the occupied Palestinian...

Iran will ask Japan to mediate between Tehran and Washington to ease oil sanctions imposed by the United States, Iranian officials said on Wednesday, as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in the country for a two-day visit. Abe, the first Japanese leader to visit Iran since its 1979...

Algeria's former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia appeared before the Supreme Court Wednesday as part of a raft of anti-graft investigations opened into senior figures since President Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika stepped down, state television reported. Ouyahia, who left the government in March as...

British Prıme Minister Theresa May on Wednesday urged the government of Hong Kong to respect the extradition rules of an 1984 declaration while the Foreign Office called for calm over growing protests ın the territory over a bill to allow extradition to China. "We are concerned about...