The International Monetary Fund will provide Ukraine with $17.5 billion in funding over the next four years, Managing Director  Christine Lagarde said in Brussels on Thursday. The $17.5 billion IMF package along with additional resources from the international...

(Reuters) - Germany , France, Russia and Ukraine agreed a deal that offers a "glimmer of hope" for an end to fighting in eastern Ukraine after marathon overnight talks. But big hurdles remained on the path to peace and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of the sponsors of the...

An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered the release of two journalists from Qatar's Al Jazeera television network at the first session of a retrial in which they face charges of "abetting terrorists" and "broadcasting false news. " The Cairo Criminal Court ordered that...

Unidentified militants set ablaze a girls’ school in Afghanistan`s eastern Kunar province Tuesday night, police said. According to Daoud Barakzai, an officer at the provincial police department, militants broke into a school in Sawan, a remote village of Dangam district,...