NABLUS, Palestinian Territories: A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli soldiers Saturday following a clash with Jewish settlers near the West Bank city of Nablus, medics and security sources said. Palestinian security sources said the clash was started by the settlers, after which...

The leader of an Iranian spiritual movement, whose repeated death sentences drew UN and US condemnation, has been given a five-year jail term after a second retrial, his lawyer said Saturday. In June 2015 and again in September last year, the courts found Mohammad Ali Taheri guilty of...

In 1978, Najla Ali got married to Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi, who later became Egypt’s first freely elected president.   After marriage, Najla travelled with her husband to the U.S., where Morsi went to complete a PhD in material science at the University of Southern...

PARIS: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to propose a name change for the National Front, part of a makeover designed to make the anti-immigration party relevant again after she was defeated by Emmanuel Macron in the presidential race. Le Pen is expected to make the proposal...