Israeli security personnel shot a Palestinian woman who tried to stab them at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, Israeli police said, and Palestinian officials said she died of her injury. The West Bank, among territories where Palestinians seek statehood, has seen...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had no more than 20 minutes to study a draft accord between the United States and the Taliban on pulling thousands of U.S. troops out of his country, but upcoming elections could put him back at the heart of talks to end decades of war. What he read in the...

 Israel’s election remained too close to call Wednesday morning, with television stations carrying unofficial results showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tied with his main rival, former military chief Benny Gantz. An official tally was still hours, perhaps days off, but the...

Japan has not seen any intelligence that shows Iran was involved in the recent attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, Japan’s new defense chief said on Wednesday. “We are not aware of any information that points to Iran,” Defense Minister Taro Kono told reporters at a briefing. “We...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday the world was "losing the race" to avert climate disaster, but that greenhouse gas reduction targets were not out of reach yet. He was speaking during an interview with the Covering Climate Now coalition of media, which includes AFP, days...

Lewis Hamilton will be hoping his march towards a sixth Formula One world title around the streets of hazy Singapore this week is not affected by smoke from wildfires raging in neighbouring Indonesia. The National Environment Agency is forecasting pollution at the "low end of the unhealthy...

At a weapons exhibition in July in Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, military officials whipped silken sheets off what they said were newly-developed drones and missiles. The theatrical gesture revealed the proud slogan “Made in Yemen” spray-painted onto the weapons’ bodywork....

Mexican forensics experts have found at least 29 bodies stuffed in 119 plastic bags that were dumped in the bottom of a well outside the western city of Guadalajara, officials said Tuesday. Experts have been working to establish how many victims are in the mass grave since it was discovered...

 Saudi Arabia’s oil supply is fully back online after weekend attacks halved output and the kingdom will achieve 11 million barrels per day (bpd) capacity by the end of September and 12 million bpd by the end of November, the energy minister said on Tuesday. Minister Prince Abdulaziz...

Teenage star Ansu Fati became Barcelona's youngest ever Champions League debutant after being named in the starting line-up for the Catalan giants' campaign opener away to Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday. The 16-year-old, who became the club's youngest ever scorer with his maiden strike...

Egypt has ordered Italy’s former honorary consul to stand trial in absentia over charges of attempting to smuggle thousands of artefacts out of the country, the public prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday. Ladislav Otakar Skakal, Italy’s former honorary consul in Luxor, attempted last year...

Mexico’s government will uphold its pledge to keep fuel prices stable and has gasoline supplies secured despite attacks on Saudi oil sites, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday. Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference that officials from the finance ministry and state...

Protesters massed in the Algerian capital on Tuesday to demand the cancellation of a controversial presidential election planned for December 12. Interim leader Abdelkader Bensalah announced the poll on Monday in a bid to resolve the political deadlock gripping the country since the April...

Three Russian border guards were wounded in a confrontation with North Korean poachers, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday. The incident happened in the Sea of Japan, in Russian territorial waters, the FSB Public Relations Center said in a statement on its official...

The Venezuelan government and five opposition party leaders announced they agreed on starting a new dialogue process to tackle problems in the nation. Main opposition leader Juan Guaido was not part of the new deal announced Monday and he said the Norway-mediated negotiations are...

An attack on Saudi oil installations that halted half the kingdom’s output could harm French diplomacy meant to avert feared U.S.-Iranian conflict, diplomats said after President Emmanuel Macron’s top envoy held talks in Saudi Arabia. They said France was trying to pinpoint the origin of...

Drones from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) targeted Mitiga International Airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli, the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) said on Tuesday. "Emirati drones, supporters of the war criminal [Khalifa] Haftar, target Mitiga International Airport,"...

Law professor Kais Saied and detained media mogul Nabil Karoui won most votes in the first round of Tunisia's presidential election and will contest a runoff vote, the independent electoral commission said Tuesday. Saied won 18.4 percentage of votes and Karoui 15.6 percentage, while...

Amid a flurry of Twitter posts on Monday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump turned to the weekend attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities and assured his audience the United States had become such a big producer it no longer needed oil from the Middle East. U.S. government data tells a...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called for a return to an international deal curbing Iran’s nuclear activities as the only way to defuse tensions in the Middle East. “We believe that the deal to stop Iran from acquiring military nuclear capabilities is a building block we need to...