A cross-party group of lawmakers have called on the Metropolitan police to take a tougher stance on the verbal abuse and harassment of MPs outside parliament. Over 55 MPs wrote the scathing letter to Cressida Dick, the head of the Metropolitan police, after Conservative MP Anna Soubry...

Israeli settlers on Tuesday destroyed 30 olive groves in the town of Yatta in the southern West Bank, according to a local activist.  A group of settlers chopped down the trees east of Yatta, Ratib al-Jabour, coordinator of the Popular Resistance Committees in the city of Hebron,...

Moroccan security forces have dismantled a suspected Daesh cell in the North African country, according to the Interior Ministry on Tuesday.  In a statement, the ministry said three suspects had been detained for links to the Daesh terrorist group.  The suspects, aged...

When an 18-year-old Saudi asylum seeker arrived in Bangkok she faced immediate deportation -- but instead she is in the hands of the UN refugee agency, her social media savvy galvanising a global campaign that caught the Thai government flat-footed. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun fled the...