An explosion in the St Petersburg metro system Monday has killed at least 10 people, according to "preliminary information," Russian news agency TASS reported. A Reuters witness saw eight ambulances near the Sennaya Ploshchad metro station. Another agency, RIA Novosti, said there...

Tunisia is to hold municipal polls on Dec. 17, the country's first since its 2011 revolution, the electoral commission announced Monday. After legislative and presidential votes in 2014, on the back of the adoption of a new constitution, local polls aim to complete the process of...

State-owned media in the United Arab Emirates are reporting that Dubai police have arrested a group of foreign hackers that targeted five White House officials in an email blackmail scheme. The Arabic-language Al Bayan newspaper and the television channel Dubai One reported the arrests...

An Egyptian human rights lawyer said Monday he had launched an appeal against a court ruling which backed Cairo's proposed transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government announced last year a maritime demarcation accord with Saudi Arabia, which...