Hundreds of Iraqis staged an open sit-in on Sunday to protest the collapse of services in the eastern part of the capital.   “We have come out today to protest years of deliberate government negligence,” Jabbar Latif, an elder from the Shia-majority al-Fadhiliya district in...

A Kuwaiti court Sunday sentenced in absentia a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death by hanging over the murder of a Filipina maid, a judicial source said. The court issued the sentence in the first hearing in the case of Joanna Demafelis, the 29-year-old maid whose body was found...

Pope Francis celebrated Easter mass under tight security and a sunny sky Sunday in front of tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in a flower-bedecked St Peter's Square. Under a longstanding tradition, the Netherlands donated some 50,000 tulips, daffodils, roses and orchids for the...

Iraq exported 3.453 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from its southern ports in March, slightly above the February average, the oil ministry said Sunday. Iraq's exports from the ports, managed by the central government in Baghdad, averaged 3.426 million bpd in February, down...