Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam in Beijing Monday, saying the Asian financial hub was not yet out of the "dilemma" facing the city's economy after months of sometimes violent protests. Li met with Lam during a regular duty visit where she is also due to hold a...

 Algeria’s unpopular presidential vote was meant to reset the country’s politics after months of crisis, but it exposed a rigid system determined to perpetuate itself, analysts say. “You get the impression of two parallel Algerias: a ruling class which congratulates itself on organizing...

Protests over a new citizenship law based on religion spread to student campuses across India Monday as critics said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government was pushing a partisan agenda in conflict with India's founding as a secular republic. Anger with Modi's Hindu nationalist...

The "phase one" U.S.-China trade deal will nearly double U.S. exports to China over the next two years and is "totally done" despite the need for translation and revisions to its text, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said Sunday. Lighthizer, speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation"...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will unveil a new government Monday that wields a sweeping mandate to take Britain out of the European Union after years of acrimonious debate. Johnson's simple promise to "get Brexit done" resonated in a snap election Thursday that became a re-run of Britain's...

The death toll from the powerful quake that hit the southern Philippines climbed to three Monday as rescuers used heavy equipment and their bare hands to hunt for survivors in a collapsed building. Sunday's tremor cracked schools, toppled homes and injured dozens but largely spared big...

New Zealanders across the country observed a minute of silence on Monday to honour the victims of last week's fatal volcanic eruption, as police continued efforts to recover two bodies. The official death toll from the surprise eruption on White Island, also known by its Maori name of...

At least 304 people were killed in Iran during a three-day crackdown against protests across the country in November, according to a new Amnesty International toll published Monday. The rights group had earlier estimated 208 deaths, including two youths aged 15 and 17. Iran has...

At least 10 people were killed on Sunday when a fire swept through a fan factory near Bangladesh’s capital, police said, the second such accident in less than a week. Firefighters recovered 10 bodies as the fire ripped through the three-storey factory at Gazipur, on the outskirts of Dhaka,...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will “get Brexit done” by Jan. 31 and then agree a new trade deal with the European Union by the end of 2020, cabinet office minister Michael Gove said on Sunday, vowing to deliver on the government’s top priority. Johnson and his team were triumphant...

France’s CGT union threatened on Sunday to double its protests unless the government withdraws its pension reform proposal within the next week. In a major overhaul of its pension scheme, the French government has proposed that people work two years longer to get a full pension, drawing a...

Indian police fired tear gas and resorted to baton charges to disperse thousands of violent demonstrators who were torching vehicles in New Delhi on Sunday, as protests against a new citizenship law continued for a fifth straight day across the country. The new law enacted on Dec. 11 has...

Small groups of protesters gathered in shopping malls across Hong Kong on Sunday amid brief scuffles with riot police as attention turned to an upcoming meeting between Hong Kong’s leader and China’s president. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is scheduled to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in...

 Saad al-Hariri is expected to be named Lebanon’s prime minister on Monday, but political rifts look set to hinder agreement on a new government badly needed to rescue the country from a dire economic crisis. Hariri, a Western ally and the leading Sunni Muslim politician, is widely...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday he was "disappointed" by the results of a major U.N. climate summit in Madrid, calling it a missed opportunity to tackle the global warming crisis. Guterres issued the statement as the COP25 concluded its marathon meeting voicing "the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he has been given assurances by the son of Brazil’s president that Brazil will follow the United States and move its embassy to Jerusalem next year. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signaled before he intends to move his...

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Juventus bounced back from their first defeat of the season to beat Udinese 3-1 and move top of Serie A on Sunday. Ronaldo struck twice in the first half to make it five goals in four games as champions Juve move one point ahead of leaders Inter Milan ahead...

Turkey's president held a meeting on Sunday with the head of Libya's UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA).  The closed-door meeting between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Fayez al-Sarraj took place in the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul. On Nov. 7, Ankara and Tripoli-based...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After his novel "The Road to Zaatari" that sparked outrage in literary circles, the Syrian novelist Mohamed Fathi Al-Miqdad publishes a new book titled "Above the Earth", in which he attempts to capture all crucial and historical details of the revolution, in his own form of...

Iraqi security forces arrested five people in connection with lynching a teenager in the capital Baghdad this week, according to the interior ministry on Sunday. On Thursday, angry mob killed the teenager whom they accused of shooting protesters and hung his body by his ankles from a...