Formula One team Haas announced on Thursday Frenchman Romain Grosjean and Dane Kevin Magnussen will drive for the outfit again in the 2020 season. The pair will head into their fourth campaign together with the American constructor. "Experience, and the need for it, has been one of the...

At the political science faculty where Tunisian presidential candidate Kais Saied taught law, a devoted following of young voters swayed by his campaign propelled the political novice to the second round. Now they are determined to help him to victory in next month's run-off against fellow...

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh on Thursday accused the United States of using oil as a “weapon” and said that balance in the oil market would be restored “soon”. “The United States is now using oil as a weapon; oil is not a weapon,” Zangeneh was quoted as saying by the Iranian oil...

Israeli forces rounded up 23 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to the military on Thursday. A military statement said the individuals had been arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terror activities", without elaborating about the...

Saudi Arabia's envoy to London described the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last fall as a "stain" for the kingdom. "What happened in Istanbul almost a year ago, was a stain on Saudi Arabia, stain on our culture, our people, our...

The United Arab Emirates followed Saudi Arabia Thursday in joining a US-led force to protect Gulf shipping as tensions with Iran soared following twin attacks on key Saudi oil facilities. The United States has pushed for the creation of the International Maritime Security Construct to...

Interpol said Thursday it has detected more than a dozen suspected foreign terrorist fighters travelling across the Mediterranean during one of its coordinated maritime border operations. Out of 31 active investigative leads, "more than 12 of these linked to the movement of terror...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on his main challenger Benny Gantz Thursday to form a unity government together, a major development after deadlocked election results put his long tenure in office at risk. Netanyahu, in a video message, said he preferred to form a...

Russian police on Thursday said they had detained a Siberian shaman walking to Moscow on a mission to drive out President Vladimir Putin who he describes as a "demon". Police in the eastern Siberian region of Buryatia said they had detained the shaman, Alexander Gabyshev, on a highway near...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards' commander said Thursday the country is "so powerful" that it is "falsely" accused of being behind any regional incident, days after attacks on Saudi oil installations, Fars news agency reported. All paths are closed to Iran's enemies seeking to infiltrate the...

Britain’s Supreme Court will hear a third and final day of legal arguments on Thursday over whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully when he suspended parliament in the run-up to Brexit. If Johnson loses, he may be compelled to recall parliament earlier than scheduled, giving...

 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized on Wednesday for wearing brown face make-up in 2001 after an embarrassing picture emerged less than five weeks before an election in which he faces a tough fight. The image of a 29-year-old Trudeau with his face in dark make-up is a...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States supports Saudi Arabia’s “right to defend itself” and said Iran’s behavior would “not be tolerated” in a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to a statement on his official Twitter account on Thursday. Pompeo...

An early morning suicide truck bombing killed at least 20 people in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, an official confirmed. The massive bombing hitting the main public hospital in the Zabul province also left more than 90 others injured, Atta Jan Haq, the chairman of the provincial...

More than eight years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese court will rule Thursday on the only criminal prosecution stemming from the worst nuclear accident in decades. Three former executives from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the firm that operated the Fukushima...

Chinese tech giant Huawei launches its latest high-end smartphone in Munich on Thursday, the first that could be void of popular Google apps because of US sanctions. Observers are asking whether a phone without the Silicon Valley software that users have come to depend on can succeed, or...

Angel Di Maria was hailed as "exceptional" after scoring twice against his former club on Wednesday as Paris Saint-Germain shrugged off the absences of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe to crush Real Madrid 3-0. Di Maria beat Real goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois at his near post to put PSG ahead in the...

The governorate of Konya in central Turkey announced a suspected member of the Daesh terrorist group who shared a social media post threatening the city was captured. The unidentified suspect's post shows a view of the city from Aladdin Hill, with a hand holding a small paper with an...

A fresh appeal for the release of jailed media mogul Nabil Karoui who has a reached a runoff in Tunisia's presidential polls was turned down on Wednesday, his lawyer said. "The judge has refused to give a ruling, saying it was not in his jurisdiction," Kamel Ben Messoud told AFP, after...

The Palestinians are prepared to engage in dialogue with any future Israeli leader, Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said Wednesday in Oslo, the day after general elections in Israel ended in deadlock. "Whoever will be able to form a government, we are ready to sit with him or her in order...