Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) and the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) opposition alliance have reached a final agreement on power sharing, African Union mediator Mohamed Hassan Lebatt said early Saturday. Lebatt told reporters in Khartoum after long talks between the...

Increasing breastfeeding to near-universal levels could save more than 800,000 lives every year, said the UN's World Health Organization (WHO) in a statement. The organization released the statement on Thursday on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week, celebrated on Aug. 1-7 to...

A 36-year-old man was stabbed to death in Stuttgart on Wednesday with a weapon described as a "sword." The man was attacked in a street in the late afternoon, police said. Witnesses called police after the attack, which occurred during a dispute. The victim succumbed to his injuries...

A final agreement between Sudan’s opposition and its military rulers is expected by Saturday, as the two sides have concluded the majority of outstanding issues, according to the opposition negotiator. "We do believe that tomorrow we will bring the Sudanese people good news about these...

Palestinians on Friday converged near a security fence that separates Gaza Strip from Israel to demonstrate against Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories. Gaza’s National Authority for Return and Breaking the Siege (NARBS), which organizes weekly rallies, called on...

Algerians descended on the capital in huge numbers Friday and called for "civil disobedience" for the first time in their months-long anti-regime campaign, despite a heavy police presence. "Civil disobedience is coming!" protesters shouted, as they marched calmly through the center of...

Presidential hopefuls in Tunisia began registering their candidacies Friday for snap September polls called after the death of 92-year-old leader Beji Caid Essebsi. Eight would-be candidates, including media magnate Nabil Karoui, submitted their papers to the North African country's...

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Russia was to blame after the United States withdrew from the landmark nuclear missile pact (INF) between the two countries, saying the United Kingdom fully supported NATO's response. "Russia has caused the INF Treaty to collapse by secretly...

At least nine loyalist fighters have been killed in clashes with forces of Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar in the south of Tripoli, the U.N.-recognized government said Friday. Haftar's forces launched an offensive in April to try to wrest Tripoli from forces backing the Government of...

Sudan's ruling generals announced Friday that nine paramilitaries had been arrested for the killing of four teenage demonstrators earlier this week after four people were killed protesting their deaths. The move against the feared paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces came as talks...

Al-Qaeda gunmen killed 19 soldiers in an attack on an army base in southern Yemen Friday, security officials said, a day after deadly assaults by rebels and a jihadist bomber. The gunmen stormed Al-Mahfad base in Abyan province and remained inside for several hours before military...

The United States will no longer be prohibited from having ground-launched intermediate-range missiles once it pulls out of an arms control treaty with Russia on Friday, but funds to test and develop the missiles may soon run out, officials say. Washington said last year it would be...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday decried “decades of bad behavior” from China that have hampered free trade, laying out a case at a Southeast Asian forum for Washington’s escalating trade war with Beijing. Pompeo’s statements came after President Donald Trump on Thursday...

A dozen of Republican U.S. congressmen urged Germany in a letter to designate Iran-backed Hezbollah a terrorist group, according to Israeli daily Jerusalem Post.   "We urge your government to take a profound step in the war against terrorism... And eliminate the artificial...

President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday Iran was ready for the worst in an uphill struggle to salvage its nuclear deal with world powers abandoned by the United States, but that he was sure Tehran would eventually prevail. Fears of a Middle East war with global repercussions have risen since...

Saudi Arabia has allowed adult women to travel without permission and granted them more control over family matters, further eroding a heavily criticised male guardianship system at a time of heightened scrutiny over its human rights record. The decisions issued in a series of cabinet...

Hong Kong police said on Friday they had arrested eight people, with a leading pro-independence figure reportedly among them, after seizing weapons and suspected bomb-making material. Civil servants and medical workers will join the next round of weekend protests. Millions have taken to the...

Britain's pro-European Union Liberal Democrats won the parliamentary seat of Brecon and Radnorshire from the governing Conservatives on Friday, a blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his first electoral test since taking office. The loss reduces Johnson's working majority in parliament...

France said on Thursday voiced concern over a U.S. move to impose sanctions on Iran's foreign minister and said that along with Britain and Germany it disagreed with the decision, the French Foreign Ministry said. "We consider that all diplomatic channels should stay open, particularly...

Yemen’s main southern city of Aden was shaken by double attacks Thursday as a missile fired by rebels hit a military parade and suicide bombers blasted a police station. The attacks killed at least 51 people and wounded dozens, officials said. Most of the dead came from the missile strike,...