Iran’s foreign minister called on Tuesday on U.S. President Donald Trump to reject his hawkish allies’ thirst for war, adding that Iranians had outlasted every aggressor for millennia. “For millennia, Iranians have outlasted every aggressor ... @realDonaldTrump: reject #B_Team’s fake...

Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo was awarded by the Spanish daily Marca for his successful career as a professional footballer late Monday. The 34-year-old player won the 'Marca Legend' for the first time in his career, adding another award to his trophy collection. "This trophy is...

 Iran was to revive maritime security talks Tuesday with officials from traditional foe the United Arab Emirates (UAE) amid worsening frictions between the Islamic Republic and the West in the Gulf region, Iranian media reported. The talks had been off since 2013, but the UAE wants to help...

Algeria's powerful army chief Tuesday ruled out accepting any pre-conditions to launching talks to end the country's political crisis, saying there was "no more time to lose". Algerians have taken to the streets every Tuesday and Friday since February demanding political change, leading to...

The British pound  tumbled on Tuesday as investors bet Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit brinkmanship with the European Union could trigger a messy divorce that would sow chaos through the world economy and financial markets. Sterling crashed through trading barriers, falling to an...

A Libyan military commander on Tuesday accused Khalifa Haftar, who commands rival forces in eastern Libya, of bringing in foreign troops to attack the capital Tripoli. "There is intelligence information about launching airstrikes [on Tripoli] by bringing foreign parties [into Libya]," Osama...

Turkey will send an observation team to China's Xinjiang region, the Turkish foreign minister said Tuesday after discussing the situation of Uighur Turks with his Chinese counterpart. China has faced growing international opprobrium for setting up what it calls vocation training centers to...

An Israeli military court jailed a prominent Palestinian lawyer for 13 and a half years on Tuesday for shooting at Israeli vehicles in the occupied West Bank, the army said. Tareq Barghout, a Ramallah-based lawyer who represented Palestinians accused by Israel of security-related offences,...

The United States may be planning to blame Russian non-compliance as a pretext to pull out of the Comprehensive nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), a Russian diplomat told the Conference on Disarmament, the world’s main arms talks forum, on Tuesday. “It would appear that through propaganda...

Clashes erupted Tuesday between government forces and Houthi rebels in Yemen’s coastal city of Al-Hudaydah despite a UN-brokered ceasefire, according to a military source and local residents. The Yemeni army's media center said Houthi rebels attacked government forces in the southern...

The annual conference of Socialist International (SI) opened in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday with the participation of political parties from 25 countries.  Speaking during the opening session, Rawhi Fattouh, Commissioner for International Relations of Palestinian group...

Commuters in Hong Kong argued Tuesday with demonstrators who blocked subway train doors in their latest protest action to demand greater accountability from the semi-autonomous Chinese territory's government. Service was delayed and partially suspended on the Island and Kwun Tong lines,...

Morocco's king is calling for a government reshuffle, seeking "new blood" and saying the country's development policy isn't doing enough to meet citizens' needs. In a speech Monday night marking his 20 years on the throne, King Mohammed VI reproached the Islamist-led government and tasked...

An internal ethics report has alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority at the highest levels of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees even as the organisation faced an unprecedented crisis after US funding cuts. The allegations included in the confidential report by the agency's...

Huawei's sales unexpectedly boomed in the first half of the year, company figures showed Tuesday, as US sanctions showed few signs of slowing the Chinese tech giant down. Huawei has been under immense pressure this year as Washington has lobbied allies worldwide to avoid the company's...

An attack on a market killed at least 10 civilians including children in Yemen’s northern Saada province on Monday, a medical source and the warring parties who blamed each other said. The manager of the local Al Jomhouri hospital said 13 people were killed and 23 injured in air strikes in...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday the U.S. will do whatever is necessary to bring democracy back to Venezuela. “[Donald Trump] has said pretty clearly that we're going to do all that it takes to make sure all the Venezuelan people get democracy back," Pompeo said at The Economic...

The UN child agency has denounced the killing of five children in Al-Obied city in North Kordofan, saying that the children aged 15 to 17 years old. “The children of ages 15 to 17 were protesting the commencement of the school year amid the political uncertainty in Sudan. No child should be...

The UN and the EU condemned on Monday the attacks by Eastern Libya-based commander Khalifa Haftar forces targeting a field hospital and a school in Libya. On Sunday, fighter jets of Khaftar targeted a field hospital in south of capital Tripoli which killed four doctors and a paramedic while...

Eighteen people were killed when a small military plane crashed into a residential area in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi early Tuesday, officials told AFP. The plane crashed into a poor village near an upscale neighborhood in the garrison city that is home to the army's headquarters,...