TOKYO (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people across Japan were advised to evacuate, hundreds of flights were canceled and train services disrupted on election day on Sunday as a typhoon roared toward the coast, bringing heavy rain and strong winds. Typhoon Lan, classified as an intense...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Riyadh Saturday in a visit aimed at upgrading strategic ties, amid warming relations between the Arab neighbors. The tour coincides with Saudi Energy Minister Khaled al-Faleh's high profile visit to Baghdad where he called for the strengthening...

(Zaman Al Wasl) In tandem with the destruction of all aspects of life in Sunni-majority areas opposed to the Assad regime, the latter has been working on a plan, since 2011, to create an advanced industrial base in pro-regime areas amid aims to rely on this area as a substitute for the...

A man armed with a knife wounded at least four people in the German city of Munich on Saturday, police said on Twitter, adding that they were searching for the suspect whose motive remains unclear. A man “injured several people with a knife” in the centre of Munich and “is still...