Ashleigh Barty will meet Caroline Wozniacki or Naomi Osaka in the China Open final after the world number one squeezed through in three tense sets against Kiki Bertens on Saturday. The Australian committed 52 unforced errors but still just about emerged victorious, saving match point in a...

Hong Kong’s metro system will stay shut on Saturday, the rail operator said, paralyzing transport in the Asian financial hub after a night of chaos in which police shot a teenage boy and pro-democracy protesters torched businesses and metro stations. Friday’s protests across the...

UAE-backed separatist forces loyal to the Southern Transitional Council (STC) captured a police headquarters in the strategic island of Socotra in Yemen, an official said. "Gunmen broke into a police station in the province and captured it," an official told Anadolu Agency on condition of...

In the grounds of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant sits a million-tonne headache for the plant's operators and Japan's government: tank after tank of water contaminated with radioactive elements. What to do with the enormous amount of water, which grows by around 150 tonnes a...

Tens of thousands of Algerian protesters chanted slogans on Friday demanding the army quit politics, a purge of the ruling elite, an end to corruption, and the freeing of opposition leaders. The demonstrations in the capital Algiers and several other cities follow a ruling by a prominent...

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man Friday during weekly protests along the Gaza-Israel border, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. About 6,000 Palestinians gathered along the frontier, the Israeli military said, and some in the crowd hurled explosive devices and grenades...

Police snipers fired at demonstrators in Baghdad Friday, as the death toll rose to 60 people in three days of violent national protests against government corruption. Premier Adel Abdul-Mahdi called for calm but protesters scorned his promises of political reform. The country’s...

Saudi Arabia is considering a proposal by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement for some form of ceasefire which, if agreed, could bolster U.N. efforts to end a devastating war tarnishing Riyadh's reputation. The Houthis offered two weeks ago to stop aiming missile and drone attacks at...

Detained Tunisian presidential candidate Nabil Karoui's inability to campaign is affecting the credibility of the elections and the country's image, interim president Mohamed Ennaceur said Friday. Karoui, who will contest a runoff vote against independent Kais Saied on Oct. 13, was...

Republican Senator Mitt Romney, a frequent critic of Donald Trump, said Friday it was "wrong and appalling" for the president to urge China and Ukraine to launch investigations of a chief political rival, Joe Biden. "By all appearances, the President's brazen and unprecedented appeal to...

"We're not infiltrators", Sayyed said over and over again as he marched Friday to Baghdad's iconic Tahrir Square after Iraqi officials accused "aggressors" of being behind four days of anti-government protests. Despite pleas from embattled Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi for a "return...

The Palestinian Authority will receive a transfer of 1.5 billion shekels ($430 million) from Israel, officials from the two governments said Friday, in a step towards resolving a months-long standoff between them. Israel will continue to deduct money from the transfers to account for...

The former special US envoy to Ukraine told lawmakers Thursday that he wasn’t personally involved in President Donald Trump’s effort to have Ukraine investigate Joe Biden’s family and said he warned Ukrainians to steer clear of US politics. Kurt Volker, who has become a central figure in...

Real Madrid denied on Friday goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois was suffering from anxiety which forced him to be replaced during the midweek draw to Club Brugge, as had been reported by Spanish media. Newspaper OK Diario alleged Courtois, 27, was substituted at half-time of Tuesday's 2-2...

The Indian Air Force confirmed for the first time on Friday that it shot down one of its own helicopters during clashes with Pakistan in February over Kashmir, killing all six on board. "A court of inquiry was completed and it was our mistake that our missile hit our chopper," said the...

World number one Novak Djokovic on Friday put on a stunning show of supremacy at the Japan Open with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Lucas Pouille of France. The Serb more than overwhelmed his opponent in the quarterfinal match, showering Pouille with a barrage of powerful, precision shots to deep,...

Protesters clashed with anti-riot police Friday in Iraq despite the premier?s pleas for patience and an internet blackout on the fourth day of mass rallies that have left 44 dead. Many were awaiting a signal in the midday sermon of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's highest Shiite...

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was launching a separate camera-first messaging app, “Threads”, for its photo-sharing platform Instagram, stepping up the company’s social media war with smaller rival Snapchat. The launch of the app, which like Snapchat and Instagram is centered around...

Iraq's Supreme Anti-Corruption Council on Thursday dismissed 1,000 civil servants, who were convicted of public integrity crimes, amid widespread protests across the nation.   Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi chaired a meeting of the council amid ongoing protests to discuss a...

 Clashes between regional special forces and a minority ethnic group have killed at least 20 people in the past five days in Ethiopia's northern state of Amhara, a local political official said on Thursday. The clashes are another headache for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whose political...