Iran’s deputy speaker of the parliament on Sunday said the Interior Ministry should accept public demands instead of “raising difficulties” in the wake of anti-government protests across the country. According to the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Motahari said that the...

Four Indian soldiers and three suspected militants were killed Sunday after rebels stormed a paramilitary camp in disputed Kashmir, officials said. Gunmen in combat dress entered the camp near southern Lethpora village early Sunday firing guns and grenades at the sentry, said...

Thirty-six people were killed and 11 injured early Sunday morning in a head-on collision between a bus and a lorry on a road in central Kenya, police said. "The death toll is now 36," said Rift Valley traffic police chief Zero Arome, explaining the initial toll of 30 had risen, "after...

Iran warned on Sunday that protesters will "pay the price" after a third night of unrest saw mass demonstrations across the country in which two people were killed and dozens arrested. As videos on social media showed thousands marching across the country, an official in the small...

Anti-government protests broke out in Iran for the third day running on Saturday as separate state-sponsored rallies were staged to mark the end of unrest that shook the country in 2009, according to Iranian news agencies and state media. State television showed a rally in the capital...

Liverpool celebrated Virgil van Dijk's arrival at Anfield by coming from behind to beat Leicester City 2-1 thanks to Mohamed Salah's brace, while Danny Drinkwater scored his first Chelsea goal in a 5-0 rout of Stoke City. Van Dijk, signed from Southampton for a world record fee for a...

A court in Alexandria has sentenced leading rights activist Mahienour el-Massry to two years in prison on charges of illegally protesting against the Egyptian government’s decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, judicial sources said Saturday. The court tried four...

A policeman was stabbed to death Saturday in a rare attack in Oman's capital Muscat, authorities said, with his assailant described as "mentally ill." Police said the attacker stabbed the policeman at a Muscat shopping centre, adding that the assailant "was in possession of a document...

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has announced a 6-month state of emergency in the states of Kassala and North Kurdufan, government news agency SUNA said Saturday. The move is part of ongoing disarmament campaigns which started near Darfur and Blue Nile in October. 

Thousands of regime supporters marched in cities across Iran on Saturday in a show of strength for the regime after two days of protests that marked the biggest unrest for years. State television showed large crowds of black-clad supporters gathering in the capital Tehran, second city...

The mayor of a small city in northern Colombia says 31 people were wounded when an explosive device was thrown into a crowded nightclub. Caucasia Mayor Oscar Anibal Suarez says three women were seriously injured in the pre-dawn attack Friday at the Bora Bora nightclub. Suarez says the...

Spanish authorities said Friday they have opened an investigation into the death of an Algerian migrant found dead in a jail where hundreds of migrants are being held pending asylum claims. "Police have opened an investigation to shed light on the death of the detainee, aged 36 and of...

An Iranian official said Friday that 52 people had been arrested at protests the previous day in Mashhad as the government suggested hardline opponents may have been behind the unrest. Reformist media said hundreds had taken to the streets of Mashhad and other towns on Thursday in...

Turkey has released another German citizen from jail, Berlin said Friday amid a gradual thaw in bilateral ties, stressing however that seven more were still being held for "political reasons." Without identifying the person, the German foreign ministry said it could "confirm the...

Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza and the occupied West Bank for the fourth Friday in a row in protests against U.S. President Donald Trump's recognition of occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Palestinian health officials said at least 20 protesters were wounded...

A gunman opened fire on worshippers and Egyptian security forces stationed outside a Coptic church in a Cairo suburb on Friday and killed at least ten people before he was wounded and arrested, the Interior Ministry said. Earlier reports by security sources and state media said at least...

The U. S. Embassy in Ankara on Friday announced it has fully resumed non-immigrant visa services after normalization of visa services. “The U.S. Mission Turkey has fully resumed non-immigrant visa services. Additional appointments are now available,” said a statement on its website....

A fire broke out early Friday in an upscale rooftop restaurant in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, leaving at least 15 dead and a dozen injured, officials said. The 1 a.m. fire quickly spread from the restaurant through a four-story building, said fire official...

Turkish police detained 29 suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants in the capital, Ankara, Friday, some of whom allegedly were preparing to carry out attacks during New Year's celebrations, the state-run news agency reported. Some 500 police officers took part in simultaneous raids to detain...

Two sons of Saudi Arabia’s late King Abdullah have been released from detention at Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton hotel, days after nearly two dozen other detainees in the kingdom’s 2-month-old anti-corruption campaign were also freed. Saudi Arabia’s attorney general approved the release of...