British police relaunched an investigation Tuesday into the murder of a Palestinian cartoonist 30 years to the day after he was shot dead in a London street. Naji Salim Hussain Al-Ali, a political cartoonist for the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas, was shot in the back of the neck as he...

The cholera epidemic that has ravaged war-torn Yemen has been declining for the past two months because of an unprecedented response by "unsung local heroes," the United Nations said Tuesday. A UNICEF statement said that because of the efforts of thousands of local volunteers backed up...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged Myanmar to grant access to humanitarian agencies following reports of mass civilian casualties after raids by security forces against Rohingya insurgents. "The secretary-general is deeply concerned at the reports of civilians being...

Flooding from tropical storm Harvey caused ongoing large-scale U.S. refinery outages on Tuesday, while crude prices rose on the back of supply disruptions in Colombia and Libya. Refinery shutdowns from the storm helped push U.S. gasoline prices to $1.7799 per gallon on Monday, the most...

Thousands of Muslims have been killed over the last three days in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, the European Rohingya Council said on Monday. Council spokeswoman Anita Schug told Anadolu Agency between 2,000-to-3,000 Muslims had died in Rakhine state, and thousands other had been...

Iraqi forces said they faced tough resistance Monday from Daesh (ISIS) fighters driven out of the city of Tal Afar to a small town where they had "nothing to lose" by fighting to the end. An advance by the Iraqi army and Shi'ite paramilitary groups into al-'Ayadiya was being slowed by...

Hamas and Iran have patched up relations, the Palestinian militant group’s new leader in Gaza said on Monday, and Tehran is again its biggest backer after years of tension over the civil war in Syria. “Relations with Iran are excellent and Iran is the largest supporter of the Izz el-Deen...

Moscow Monday slammed new U.S. sanctions on Venezuela, saying they were aimed at damaging the Latin American nation's economy and aggravating tensions. "The announced sectoral sanctions against Venezuela's financial and oil sector are quite obviously aimed at aggravating the out-of-balance...

A South African legal rights group Monday took the government to court in a campaign pressing for new legislation to recognize Muslim marriages as legally valid. The Women's Legal Centre (WLC) said it was lobbying against "unfair discrimination" as South African law does not grant religious...

Germany said on Monday it had reached a deal with Egypt to stem the flow of migrants from the Arab country, part of a broader push by Berlin to head off waves of migrants that have stoked domestic political tensions. The arrival in Germany of a million refugees over the last two years,...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran is building sites to produce precision-guided missiles in Syria and Lebanon, with the aim of using them against Israel. At the start of a meeting in Jerusalem with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Netanyahu accused Iran of...

The Syrian army and Hezbollah on Monday prepared to escort Islamic State fighters to eastern Syria from their enclave on the border with Lebanon under an agreement following a week-long offensive against the jihadist group. It will end any Sunni militant presence on the border, an important...

Countries need to quadruple spending to $150 billion a year to deliver universal safe water and sanitation, helping to reduce childhood disease and deaths while boosting economic growth, said the World Bank. Investments should be better coordinated and targeted to ensure services reach the...

cTwo million Muslims from across the globe are converging on Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage, a religious duty and for some pilgrims the journey of a lifetime. This year sees the return of pilgrims from Shiite Iran, regional rival to Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia, and comes...

Iraqi officials say a car bomb has ripped through a busy market area in eastern Baghdad, killing at least six people. A police officer says the explosives-laden car went off on Monday morning at the wholesale Jamila market in Baghdad's Shiite district of Sadr City. He says the explosion also...

 Iran's official IRNA news agency says one of the country's most influential dissident politicians who once served as foreign minister, Ebrahim Yazdi, has died. He was 85. Monday's report says Yazdi died in Izmir, Turkey, due to complications from cancer. He was a close ally of...

Donald Trump's company was pursuing a Moscow real estate deal while he was running for U.S. president in late 2015 and early 2016, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The Post report cited people familiar with the proposal and records viewed by Trump Organization lawyers. The...

The conviction and jailing of South Korea’s top business tycoon heralds a drive to reform the country’s giant conglomerates and loosen their grip on the economy, analysts said. When Lee Jae-yong, de facto head of the world’s biggest smartphone-maker Samsung Electronics, was jailed Friday for...

A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 13 people in an attack on a convoy of Afghan soldiers in the restive southern province of Helmand late Sunday, an official said. "A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-filled car as the Afghan National Army convoy passed a small market in Nawa...

 French President Emmanuel Macron has asked his Turkish counterpart to free a French journalist who has been jailed in Turkey since July on suspicion of terrorism. The French president's office said Sunday that Macron spoke by telephone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and...