"This is just stuff. We're gonna move on from it," says Margi Wyatt, holding back tears as she stares at her burned-out mobile home destroyed by one of the fires raging through the US state of Oregon. The 70-year-old fled 30 miles (50 kilometers) from her home to Estacada in Portland's...

Hundreds of Lebanese marched Saturday on the presidential palace to denounce a lack of progress in a probe by authorities into a monster blast that ravaged swathes of the capital 40 days ago. Some marchers carried black versions of the Lebanese flag in a sign of mourning for the more...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday announced a "robust" arms purchase programme and an overhaul of the country's military amid rising tension with Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean. What appears to be Greece's most ambitious military overhaul in nearly two decades...

About 50 people are feared dead after an artisanal gold mine flooded in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after torrential rain, a provincial governor said Saturday. The accident in the makeshift mine occurred on Friday in the town of Kamituga, in South Kivu province, about 270...

Greek riot police fired tear gas at protesting asylum-seekers on the island of Lesbos Saturday, as thousands demanded help after being left homeless by fires that destroyed Europe's largest migrant camp. Asylum-seekers -- including the elderly and very young children -- have been...

A mixed state of anxiety and trauma dominates among the Syrian community in Egypt, whether from the shopkeepers or workers in these stores, after the leakage of a copy of a periodic book issued by the Minister of Local Development in Egypt, Maj. Gen Mohamed Sharawy, addressed to all governors...

 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Saturday his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron "not to mess" with Turkey, as tensions between the NATO allies escalate. "Don't mess with the Turkish people. Don't mess with Turkey," Erdogan said during a televised speech in Istanbul....

Bahrainis opposed to forming diplomatic ties with Israel vented their frustration Saturday, while lonelier voices supported the accord, underlining the complexities of the Gulf's rapprochement with the Jewish state. The hashtags "Bahrainis against normalisation" and "normalisation is...

Iran’s currency Saturday dropped to its lowest value ever against the dollar, and has seen its value fall by 30% since June amid severe U.S. sanctions imposed on Tehran. Money exchange shops traded the Iranian rial 262,000 for a dollar. The rial had traded at 256,000 to $1 Thursday, and...

 Iran’s state TV is reporting that the country’s authorities has executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man after President Donald Trump asked for the 27-year-old condemned man's life to be spared. State TV quoted the chief justice of Fars province, Kazem Mousavi as saying...

Hamas on Friday called the normalization deal between Bahrain and Israel as an extension of the US administration's Deal of the Century which "obliterates the Palestinian cause". "Joining these countries to the path of normalization make them complicit with the Deal of the Century which...

The Yemeni army announced Saturday it took control of the Houthi command center in the northern province of Al-Jawf. Army units took control of command and communication centers in the Nudud front, according to a report published on the military website, September Net. It said...

The top trending tweet Friday on Twitter in Bahrain was "Bahrainis against normalization" shortly after a deal to normalize relations between Israel and Bahrain was announced. "It is an illusion that the Bahraini people enter the tunnel of normalization. The Egyptian people up to the...

Libyans continued to protest worsening living conditions Friday in Benghazi, the base of warlord Khalifa Haftar.  Demonstrators took the streets for a second day once again to protest power cuts, corruption, the high cost of living, unpaid wages and water cuts. Local media...

The European Union stepped up planning for a "no-deal" Brexit Friday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government refused to revoke a plan to break the divorce treaty that Brussels says will sink four years of talks. Britain said explicitly this week that it plans to break international...

French Prime Minister Jean Castex warned Friday the country was seeing a "clear worsening" of the coronavirus pandemic, but said he would aim to avoid a new nationwide lockdown that would further hammer the economy. The number of new, confirmed COVID-19 cases in France rose by 9,406 Friday....

The Sahel region of Africa is a ticking "time bomb" of terrorism and organized crime, a Moroccan police chief told AFP Friday, a day after a suspected Daesh group-affiliated cell was busted. "It was a dangerous cell primed to go into action at any moment," Abdelhak Khiame, head of the...

An explosion in a battery workshop near the Iranian capital Friday killed one person, injured 10 others and damaged apartment buildings and cars, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported. The blast struck at 5:15 pm on the ground floor of a three-story residential building in Tehran...

Thousands of anti-Shiite protesters including demonstrators linked to Sunni extremists rallied in Pakistan's Karachi Friday, sparking fears that rising tensions between the religious groups may unleash a new round of sectarian violence. The rally follows a raft of blasphemy accusations...

Sudan has declared a state of emergency to avert economic downturn due to the dramatic fall of its local currency against the US dollar and soaring inflation. The decision -- reported by official news agency SUNA -- includes setting up emergency courts, enacting laws to protect the economy,...