Iran will ask Japan to mediate between Tehran and Washington to ease oil sanctions imposed by the United States, Iranian officials said on Wednesday, as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in the country for a two-day visit. Abe, the first Japanese leader to visit Iran since its 1979...

Algeria's former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia appeared before the Supreme Court Wednesday as part of a raft of anti-graft investigations opened into senior figures since President Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika stepped down, state television reported. Ouyahia, who left the government in March as...

British Prıme Minister Theresa May on Wednesday urged the government of Hong Kong to respect the extradition rules of an 1984 declaration while the Foreign Office called for calm over growing protests ın the territory over a bill to allow extradition to China. "We are concerned about...

Russian police detained more than 400 people, including opposition politician Alexei Navalny, at a protest in Moscow on Wednesday calling for punishment for police officers involved in the alleged framing of a journalist. Police abruptly dropped drug charges a day earlier against...

The top U.S. diplomat for Africa was due in Khartoum on Wednesday to join an international push to salvage a deal between Sudan’s military rulers and opposition groups two months after the overthrow of former President Omar al-Bashir. The visit comes after an Ethiopian envoy said the ruling...

Amnesty and Human Rights Watch warned U.N. peacekeepers Tuesday against withdrawing from Sudan at a time when the Janjaweed militia is not only keeping up war crimes in Darfur but also taking its "despicable brutality" to Khartoum. "It's hard to imagine a worse time to decide to close...

Palestinians urged Egypt and Jordan Wednesday to reconsider their attendance at a U.S.-led conference on June 25-26 in Bahrain, voicing concern it would weaken any Arab opposition to Washington's coming peace plan. The United States has billed the gathering as a workshop to boost the...

A Yemeni rebel missile attack on an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia wounded 26 civilians on Wednesday, drawing promises of "stern action" from the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels. Yemen's Huthi rebels, who have faced persistent coalition bombing since March 2015 that has...

The Trump administration is pressing Saudi Arabia to show “tangible progress” toward holding to account those behind the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and wants them to do so before the one-year anniversary of his murder, a senior administration official said. Pushing back...

Boris Johnson, favorite to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May, will commit Wednesday to taking Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31, warning the governing Conservatives that "delay means defeat" at a campaign launch. In a crowded race to replace May, Brexit has become the touchstone...

Stocks sank in Hong Kong as the city was hit by huge protests that saw tens of thousands of people block key roads, businesses shut up shop and unions encourage members to miss work. In scenes that revived memories of the 2014 Occupy movement, traffic was brought to a standstill and...

At a modest dwelling open to the winds next to a landfill in the Gaza Strip, only the women, children and an old man remain. Angham Zorab's two brothers along with her husband fled the blockaded Palestinian enclave in June 2014 -- like many others who see no hope in remaining. "He sold...

Protest leaders have agreed to end their civil disobedience campaign launched after a crackdown on demonstrators and resume talks with Sudan's ruling generals, an Ethiopian mediator said Tuesday. "The Alliance for Freedom and Change agreed to end the civil disobedience (campaign) from...

Yemen's Houthi rebels said Tuesday they launched at least two drones targeting a southwest Saudi city that's home to an air base. The Houthis' Al-Masirah satellite news channel reported the rebels launched Qasef-2K drones to strike the city of Khamis Mushait. The state-run Saudi Press...

Israel reduced the fishing zone it allows off Gaza for the second time in a week, an official said Tuesday, following a spate of attacks by Palestinians using balloons to spark fires. A spokeswoman for COGAT, the Israeli defence ministry unit that oversees such regulations, said Gazans...

Israel's top court gave final approval Monday for the 2004 sale of properties by the Greek Orthodox Church to a Jewish pro-settlement organisation in mainly Palestinian areas of annexed east Jerusalem. In its Monday decision, the supreme court rejected the church's appeal against a district...

The United States said Tuesday that Iran's work with advanced centrifuges is a breach of the nuclear deal Washington has already pulled out of, expressing its concern while repeating that it is open to holding talks with Tehran. In a statement to a quarterly meeting of the U.N. nuclear...

French President Emmanuel Macron denounced "capitalism gone mad" in an address Tuesday to the UN's International Labour Organization, while urging enhanced social protections in a global economy plagued by inequality. Macron made the comments at a conference marking the ILO's 100th...

In the last two weeks Dr Asmahan Ahmed has seen a surge in suspected cholera cases arriving at her health center in Abs, a small, Houthi-held town in northwest Yemen. “Every day there are 30-50 cases, no fewer. Suddenly it became like this,” she said in the 15-bed diarrhea treatment center....

A third summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is possible but the ball is in Pyongyang's court, White House national security adviser John Bolton said Tuesday. While North Korea had kept pledges not to conduct nuclear or intercontinental range ballistic...