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UK intelligence knew Khashoggi plot, tabloid claims

Slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi was about to disclose some detailed information about Saudi Arabia’s use of chemical weapons in Yemen and the U.K. had been made aware of a planned plot against him weeks before he was killed in the Saudi Consulate building in Istanbul, a British tabloid...

Algeria's Bouteflika to seek re-election in 2019: party chief

Algeria's frail President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in power since 1999, will stand for a fifth term at elections next year, the head of his party said Sunday. National Liberation Front chief Djamel Ould Abbes said Bouteflika, who suffered a stroke in 2013, would be the party's candidate at...

Germany: Merkel's party suffers losses in polls

Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats have suffered huge losses on Sunday in regional elections in the central German state of Hesse. Projections by public broadcaster ARD showed Christian Democratic Union (CDU) could only manage to win 28 percent of the vote, a significant...

Rohingya genocide continues in Myanmar: Rights group

Some states hinder our work in raising awareness about the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, head of a rights groups said Sunday. In a special interview to Anadolu Agency, Kyaw Win, director of Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN), said: “Some countries in the UN Security Council seem to...