UEFA, football's top governing body in Europe, on Thursday picked Germany to host the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship. According to UEFA, Germany received 12 votes and Turkey, four. There was one abstention.  After congratulating both football associations for...

© SOS MEDITERRANEE/AFP/File | The head of MSF Italy urged a solution be found to allow Aquarius to continue with migrant rescues in the Mediterranean despite Panama revoking its flag as a trio of Swiss lawmakers urged their government to allow the vessel to fly a Swiss flag ROME (AFP)...

Employees of the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) on Thursday called for a series of measures to be taken in response to recent policy decisions by the agency’s administration.  The UNRWA employees union has called for a “civil disobedience” campaign to include...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday dismissed Lieutenant-General Jamil al-Shammari, an army commander in Basra, against the backdrop of ongoing violent protests in the country’s south. The move came only hours before parliament was scheduled to vote on whether or not to...