OPEC and non-member oil producers are gearing up to extend output cuts Thursday, possibly by as long as 12 months, to help clear a global stocks overhang and prop up crude prices. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is to discuss in Vienna whether to prolong an accord...

British police have stopped sharing information about a suicide bombing in Manchester with U.S. authorities following leaks of details of the investigation that has angered the government, the BBC said Thursday. The British government and police force have criticised the leaks which they say...

Violence and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa threaten the lives of over 24 million children, most of them in Yemen, Iraq and Syria, the United Nation’s children agency’s report said Wednesday. From cholera in Yemen to attacks on hospitals in Syria and the tens of thousands...

Iraq’s interior minister Wednesday ordered an investigation into allegations that members of the security forces had tortured, killed and abused civilians in the campaign to oust Daesh (ISIS) militants from Mosul. The inquiry was in response to a report by the German newsmagazine Der...