China targets to create over 13 million jobs in 2018, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday. According to the country’s official Xinhua news agency, Li said the minimal target was 11 million, but the Chinese government will work hard to reach the aim. More than 66 million...

Diplomats expelled from the Russian embassy in London began leaving the building with their families and luggage on Tuesday, AFP journalists witnessed. Britain has thrown out 23 Russian diplomats over the nerve agent attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia on...

Israel plans to revoke the permanent residency of 12 Palestinians in East Jerusalem for alleged involvement in “terrorist” activity, according to the country’s interior minister. In a statement on Tuesday, Arye Dery said he was considering the move after the Knesset (Israel’s...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Turkey abused the rights of two journalists detained in a massive post-coup crackdown in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands accused of muzzling the press. The journalists, Mehmet Altan and Sahin Alpay, were arrested in 2016...