Algeria's army said Sunday it would not back any candidate in a presidential election set for December to choose a successor to Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Mass protests this spring forced Bouteflika to step down after 20 years in power, leaving the army as the main player in Algerian politics....

Dozens demonstrated in the centre of Sudan's capital Khartoum on Sunday, calling for the release of a Sudanese student reportedly detained in Egypt amid a crackdown on rare protests against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Scattered rallies against Sisi broke out on September 20 after viral...

 Egyptian security forces have killed 15 suspected militants in a shootout in restive north Sinai, the interior ministry said Sunday. A militant group was "planning hostile acts targeting military and police forces...in order to destabilize national security," the ministry said in a...

An NGO accused Israeli security forces Sunday of torturing a Palestinian arrested on suspicion of leading a cell allegedly behind a West Bank bomb attack that killed an Israeli teenager. Israeli police and the Shin Bet domestic security agency said late Saturday they had arrested three...

Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz triumphed in Sunday's parliamentary election, as widely expected, but he will need a coalition partner to form a stable government and the vote left him several options across the political spectrum. The election followed the collapse in May of...

Thousands gathered in Moscow Sunday for a demonstration demanding the release of opposition protesters prosecuted in recent months. Police estimated a turnout of 20,000 at the Sakharov Avenue in central Moscow about half an hour after the start of the protest, which was authorised. The...

Hundreds of people protested in Lebanon's capital Sunday over increasingly difficult living conditions, amid fears of a dollar shortage and possible price hikes. A skirmish broke out as protesters tried to break through security barriers in front of the cabinet office and anti-riot forces...

At least 71 illegal migrants rescued after four days in distress at sea were brought to shore east of the Libyan capital Tripoli early on Sunday but then fled and no attempt was made to capture them, a navy official said. Libya is one of the main departure points for African migrants...

A fuel shortage is deepening Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, forcing drivers to wait for days in lines that stretch back from some petrol stations as far as the eye can see. The new shortage is just one of many problems causing suffering in the civil war being fought by the Iran-aligned Houthi...

The French public on Sunday began bidding a final farewell to late former president Jacques Chirac, fondly remembered as a charismatic giant of domestic and international politics despite a mixed legacy. Chirac's death on Thursday aged 86 prompted a flood of tributes to a man whose...

Iran's oil minister on Sunday ordered his country's energy sector to be on high alert to the threat of "physical and cyber" attacks. Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said "it is necessary for all companies and installations of the oil industry to be on full alert against physical and cyber threats,"...

Lewis Hamilton claimed his first win in four races on Sunday when he rode his luck to end Ferrari?s winning streak with a well-judged strategic victory for Mercedes in a roller-coaster Russian Grand Prix. The defending five-time champion came home 3.829 seconds ahead of his team-mate and...

Prominent Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah was detained Sunday morning beyond his overnight probation, his family and a judicial official said. "We don't know where Alaa is... The police station says he's most probably at state security prosecution... we seriously don't have any...

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group on Sunday broadcast footage it said was of a major attack near the border with Saudi Arabia's southern region of Najran, adding that the images showed armored vehicles hit by blasts and surrendering fighters. Saudi Arabia has not yet responded to the Houthi...

Pablo Carreno Busta claimed his first ATP title in more than two years after outlasting Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik to win the Chengdu Open Sunday. The 28-year-old Spaniard collapsed to his knees after prevailing in just over two gruelling hours, 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 7-6 (7/3). The...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz traded blame Sunday over the failure so far of efforts to reach a unity government deal following deadlocked elections. A new round of negotiations between Netanyahu's right-wing Likud and Gantz's centrist Blue and White...

A fire erupted on Sunday at a new high-speed train station in Saudi Arabia's western city of Jeddah, authorities said, with huge palls of smoke seen rising into the air. The station is dedicated to the Haramain High Speed Rail system which opened to the public in October last year,...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that his country is at stake like never before over impeachment investigation. "Because our country is at stake like never before. It is all very simple. They are trying to stop me because I am fighting for you, and I will never let that happen,"...

The death toll from a strong earthquake in Indonesia's eastern province of Maluku has risen to 30 people, the national disaster mitigation agency (BNBP) said Sunday, and hundreds of thousands of people remain in evacuation shelters. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit early Thursday, damaging...

Boris Johnson vowed Sunday to stay on as Britain's prime minister even if he fails to secure a deal to leave the European Union, saying only his Conservative government can deliver Brexit on October 31 no matter what. At the beginning of his party's annual conference in the northern city of...