British Airways (BA) has called on UK border authorities to address “serious inefficiencies” causing long delays at airport immigration controls ahead of Britain’s exit from the European Union. BA said difficulties processing passengers after a new electronic gate system was introduced last...

( The Guaridan )- US ambassador Nikki Haley sharply criticised the UN peacekeeping commander in Lebanon on Friday, saying he is “blind” to the spread of illegal arms and reiterating a call for the force to do more about it. He says there is no evidence it is actually happening. With the...

Ousmane Dembele's transfer to Barcelona in a deal worth up to 147 million euros ($175 million), making him the world's second most expensive player after Neymar, is the latest dizzying move fuelled by TV money and Gulf-based club owners. The deal agreed Friday to bring 20-year-old French...

China's commerce ministry has banned North Korean nationals from setting up new businesses in the country, enforcing recent UN sanctions as Washington urges Beijing to do more to curb its ally's nuclear ambitions. The ban, effective immediately, came as Pyongyang launched three short-range...

 Iraqi forces are about to take full control of Tal Afar, Daesh (ISIS)'s stronghold in northwestern Iraq, in a swift campaign against the outnumbered, exhausted militants, an Iraqi military spokesman said Saturday. The quick collapse of Daesh in Tal Afar, a breeding ground for extremist...

Jordan has said its relations with the Syrian regime are heading in the "right direction" and looked forward to a reopening of the border crossings with its war-torn neighbor. "Our relations with the Syrian state and regime are going in the right direction," government spokesman Mohamed...

Belgian authorities on Saturday launched twin investigations into a knife attack they consider to be an act of terrorism and released more details of the suspect shot dead by soldiers in central Brussels. Federal prosecutors said that they had requested an investigating judge look into...

A high-ranking Iraqi military officer has been killed and five others injured in an explosion in western Anbar province near the Saudi border, according to an army officer Saturday. Brig. Gen. Laith al-Samawi was killed when an explosive device hit a border guards’ patrol as it passed...

A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter crashed off the coast of Yemen on Friday during a training mission and a search was under way for one U.S. service member, the U.S. military said. U.S. Central Command said in a statement that five other service members aboard the aircraft had been rescued...

North Korea fired several short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast early on Saturday, South Korea and the U.S. military said, as the two allies conducted annual joint military drills that the North denounces as preparation for war. The U.S. military’s Pacific Command said it...

 Social media commentators and political opponents of Emmanuel Macron tore into the French president on Friday after it emerged that he spent 26,000 euros ($30,901) on makeup during his first 100 days in office. Macron won a landslide second-round election victory in May over far-right...

The White House on Friday unveiled tough financial sanctions against the Venezuelan regime, banning the trade in new bonds issued by the government and its cash-cow state-run oil company PDVSA. In a move that leverages Washington's vast financial power against Nicolas Maduro's regime,...

Somali forces supported by U.S. troops shot dead 10 Somalis, including three children, in a village near the capital of Mogadishu on Friday, a witness and local officials told Reuters. The involvement of U.S. troops was confirmed by U.S. Africa Command, which offered no further details....

A Swedish court has placed a Syrian asylum-seeker suspected of committing war crimes in Syria in pre-trial detention. The court south of Stockholm jailed 33-year-old Mohammad Abdullah for two weeks Friday and said formal charges should be filed before Sept. 7. The case relates to crimes...

The chief of the Russian military's branch for protection from chemical weapons says his troops have dismantled two chemical weapons facilities in areas freed from militants in Syria. Maj. Gen. Igor Kirillov didn't name the locations, saying only that Russia will provide the data to the...

Roughly 500 families have fled Iraq’s Daesh-held Tal Afar district to next-door Syria in recent days amid an ongoing Iraqi army campaign to capture the district, a local military official said Friday. “Since the army launched its campaign to liberate Tal Afar, around 500 families have fled...

A man suspected of involvement in a threat that triggered the cancellation of a concert by American rock band Allah-Las will remain in custody until next week, after an investigating judge ruled on Friday that his arrest was lawful. It remains to be seen exactly what, if any, charges the...

The spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiite majority is calling on doctors from across Iraq to help civilians fleeing clashes in the latest fight against Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani says medical workers should travel to areas around the battle for Tal Afar to help "to...

For a people struggling to establish their own state, traditional food is an important part of the national heritage, and for Palestinians in the West Bank that goes well beyond the standard hummus. In Hebron, a biblical town in the Israeli-occupied Palestine, Eyad Abu Seena runs his...

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shiite mosque in Kabul Friday in what officials said was an ongoing attack, the latest violence to strike the Afghan capital. Kabul police spokesman Abdul Basir Mujahid told AFP a suicide bomber "detonated himself inside the mosque", adding that...