Yellow Vest protesters Monday set barricades to bar workers from entering a public building in Namur. Protester Marc-Henri Jamain told local media nearly 10 workers were allowed to enter the building as a result of negotiations with a public administration. He went on to say the...

The Tunisian General Labor Union on Monday reaffirmed plans to stage a general strike on Thursday to demand better pay for civil servants. Speaking at a ceremony marking the eighth anniversary of Tunisia’s 2011 popular uprising, union head Noureddine Taboubi vowed to escalate strike...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that a rift between Qatar and its Gulf Arab neighbors had gone on for too long and was threatening regional unity needed to counter Iran. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and non-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member Egypt...

Seven candidates were confirmed Monday to run for president in Senegal on Feb. 24. The seven were the remaining of 27 candidates in the western African country who applied. The rest were eliminated because they failed to collect enough signatures from the seven regions of the country, said...

Russia and Japan held the first round of talks on Friday for a peace treaty which was not signed by the two countries after the second World War. Russian and Japanese delegations headed by Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Taro Kono gathered this morning in Moscow. The talks lasted...

People in North and South America, a large part of Europe and Africa may get a glimpse of a total lunar eclipse overnight from January 20 to 21, the last such event until 2022. For those in Europe and Africa, the total eclipse will unfold shortly before sunrise. For those in North and...

The Council of Europe on Monday strongly condemned threats and attacks against journalists during recent Yellow Vest demonstrations in France. “Any attack on journalists who are simply doing their jobs is an attack on democracy,” Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland said in his first...

Twenty-eight Sudanese journalists were arrested by the authorities on Monday, the Sudanese Journalist Network (SJN), an independent watchdog group, has asserted. SJN official Hassan Brkia told Anadolu Agency that, for the last several weeks, local journalists have been protesting the...

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian man to death on drug trafficking charges on Monday after his previous 15-year prison sentence was deemed too lenient, a ruling likely to deepen a diplomatic rift between Ottawa and Beijing. Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, 36, nodded as the judge in the...

Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, director of East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, has said that Israeli police bear full responsibility for recent escalations at the flashpoint site. Speaking to Anadolu Agency on Monday from a hospital where he is receiving treatment, al-Kiswani said: "The Israeli...

Libyan protesters have attacked the Lebanese embassy in Tripoli, causing limited damage, Lebanese Ambassador to Libya Mohammad Sukaina said Monday. The incident comes one day after supporters of Lebanon’s Shia Amal movement reportedly removed Libyan flags from outside a Beirut convention...

A battling Andy Murray bowed out of the Australian Open at the first hurdle Monday, but it was business as usual for ruthless Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal who joined Caroline Wozniacki in round two. The Scottish five-time Melbourne Park finalist gave it everything he had and showed...

An aircraft modeled by a Turkish designer was rewarded for its perfection at the German Design Award 2019. Created by the design center Designnobis team led by its founder Hakan Gursu, the Turkish Eagle Alpina received the "Excellent Product Design" award. The aircraft is expected to be...

One person was killed and four were missing after a gas explosion tore through a multi-storey residential building in southern Russia early on Monday, authorities said. The blast, in the town of Shakhty in the southern Rostov region, destroyed several apartments on the top two floors of the...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday after meeting his Japanese counterpart that Tokyo must recognise Moscow's sovereignty over all of the disputed south Kuril islands in order for peace talks to continue. The two diplomats met for the first time since leaders of Japan and...

Stephen Curry scored 48 points, including 11 3-pointers as the Golden State Warriors defeated the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday evening in the NBA. In the 119-114 victory, Kevin Durant also scored 28 points, grabbed 7 rebounds and dished out 5 assists for an all-around performance....

Israeli Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General, Gadi Eisenkot has described the situation in the Gaza Strip as "very explosive".  "The situation there [Gaza Strip] is very explosive,” Eisenkot told the Israeli Broadcast Authority.  “Israel is also ready for the possibility of...

Ankara will not shrink from threats by U.S. President Donald Trump, said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Monday. "We have repeatedly said that we are never afraid of threats. Threatening Turkey economically will get you nowhere," Cavusoglu told a news conference with his...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will cut short his Middle East tour and head home early to attend a family funeral, an official said on Monday. "Secretary Pompeo will return to the United States after his meetings in Muscat, Oman," State Department deputy spokesman Robert Palladino said...

A Palestinian teenager succumbed to his wounds on Monday three days after being shot by Israeli forces during clashes on the Gaza border, the health ministry in the coastal enclave said. In a statement, health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said Abdul Raouf Salha, 14, "died as a...