Tunisia on Saturday said it would take in 40 migrants, including two pregnant women, rescued by a commercial vessel. The ship, the "Sarost 5" a Tunisian flagged supply boat, has been blocked for two weeks from docking off Zarzis in southern Tunisia. "For humanitarian reasons, we...

Turkey’s Assyrian community has welcomed a new regulation allowing free allocation of places of worship such as synagogues, churches, and monasteries to minority foundations. Yilmaz Hicbezmez, deputy head of an association linked to the Mor Hananyo Monastery -- also known as the...

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has returned to Belgium after Spain’s Supreme Court dropped an international arrest warrant for him. “This will not be my last stop. This is not the end of my journey. I will travel around Europe to the four corners of the continent to defend our...

Iran plans to offer price and tax incentives to private investors to take over idle state projects and help boost the economy, state media reported on Saturday, as the country faces likely U.S. sanctions and the exit of many foreign companies. In May the United States pulled out of a...