Egypt's parliament has backed a draft bill that grants foreigners citizenship if they deposit the sum of at least 7 million Egyptian pounds ($391,000) in a local bank, save it there for five years and reside in the country during that period. The draft bill, passed on Sunday evening,...

Eight migrants including six children were found dead Monday after suffocating from petrol fumes while packed into a lorry container on the west Libyan coast, authorities said. Another 90 migrants recovered from the container were in critical condition and had been taken to a local...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the Finnish capital Monday for a historic summit with U.S. leader Donald Trump. Putin flew to Helsinki for the summit a day after he attended the World Cup final in Moscow, and a lengthy convoy of black vehicles awaited him on the tarmac.

Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei has called for better ties with the world - though not with the United States, according his official website Monday. Khamenei met President Hassan Rouhani and his cabinet Sunday and spoke of the "necessity of developing diplomacy and relations with foreign...