Hong Kong activists have raised more than HK$5 million ($640,500) in a crowdfunding campaign to take out newspaper ads in a bid to get a controversial extradition bill on the agenda at the G20 summit. Millions have taken to the streets of the former British colony this month to protest...

The Transitional Military Council (TMC) in Sudan has declared the release of all prisoners who took part in rebel movements in recent years, its deputy chair said Monday. Addressing crowds in the country's capital of Khartoum, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who is also chief of the country's Rapid...

Boris Johnson, the favourite to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May, has acknowledged that London would need cooperation from the European Union to cushion potential shocks in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Johnson has repeatedly insisted Britain should leave the bloc on the current...

Iran said on Tuesday that new US sanctions targeting the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials meant a “permanent closure” of diplomacy between Tehran and Washington. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing the sanctions on Monday,...

Venezuela's former intelligence chief, Cristopher Figuera, who fled the country after backing a failed uprising against President Nicolas Maduro in April, has told the Washington Post the regime could still fall. "I'm proud of what I did," he said in an interview published online late...

Israel blocked fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip Tuesday, citing new incendiary balloons from the Palestinian enclave. The move follows "the release of arson balloons from the Gaza Strip toward the State of Israel" which caused fires across the border, the Israeli defence ministry...

A U.S.-led peace conference on the Palestinian economy could present Washington with a new opportunity to push Gulf allies and Israel closer together as tensions with common foe Iran rise. The Palestinian Authority is boycotting the Peace to Prosperity conference that opens Tuesday in Bahrain,...

Iraq’s parliament approved on Monday three more ministers, including the defense and interior portfolios put forward by Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, lawmakers said. But the nominee for minister of education, the only remaining portfolio, failed to get enough votes. Najah...

Upcoming peace talks between the United States and the Taliban will focus on working out a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan and on a Taliban guarantee militants won’t plot attacks from Afghan soil, sources said on Monday. A seventh round of talks between the...

The new economic sanctions that the United States is preparing to impose on Iran will have no "impact," a spokesman for the Islamic republic's foreign ministry said Monday. "We really do not know what [the new sanctions] are and what they want to target anymore, and also do not consider...

U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to talk to Iran about a deal that would lift American sanctions but Tehran would need to curtain its nuclear and missile program, as well as its support for proxies, a senior U.S. official said Monday. U.S. Special Representative on Iran Brian Hook told...

Washington's deployment of land-based missile systems near Russia's borders could lead to a standoff comparable to the Cuban missile crisis, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying Monday. Russia has been fiercely critical of U.S. plans to deploy missile systems...

Saudi Arabia's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs warned Iran there would be more sanctions if it continued its "aggressive polices," but said Riyadh wanted to avoid war. "Today, Iran is under severe economic sanctions," Adel al-Jubeir told Le Monde newspaper in an interview published...

The death toll from a brain disease that has stricken children in India's Bihar state rose above 150 on Monday as a court ordered an investigation into the crisis. The country's Supreme Court also demanded the government explain what measures it has taken to combat the spread of Acute...

US President Donald Trump will visit South Korea at the weekend after the G20 summit to discuss deadlocked nuclear talks with the North with President Moon Jae-in, Seoul's presidential office said Monday. Trump will fly to the South Korean capital on Saturday after attending the G20 summit...

The UN rights chief called Monday for countries to repatriate family members of suspected foreign fighters in Syria, including some 29,000 foreign children of Islamic State group jihadists. The situation of foreign fighters and their families topped a long line of concerns listed by...

Finance officials were flying into Bahrain on Monday for a US-led peace conference that holds out billions of dollars for the Palestinians, whose leaders pronounced the idea dead on arrival. Led by President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, the Peace to Prosperity...

Sudanese authorities must grant human rights monitors access to the country and end "repression" against protesters and the shutdown of the Internet, U.N. human rights boss Michelle Bachelet said Monday. Bachelet, in a speech opening a three-week session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in...

Iran said Monday that no cyber attack against the Islamic republic has ever succeeded, after American media reported the U.S. launched one last week amid a standoff between the two countries. "The media are asking about the veracity of the alleged cyber attack against Iran. No successful...

The trial against 16 people accused of terror charges and organizing anti-government protests in 2013 has begun in Turkey as rights groups say the allegations are baseless. The trial is taking place Monday and Tuesday in a prison complex on Istanbul's outskirts. The 657-page indictment...