Thousands of university students on Tuesday staged demonstrations in capital Algiers -- and other parts of the country -- calling for the departure of all government officials known to be close to former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. According to witnesses, thousands of students -- joined...

Business software maker SAP and Apple are teaming up to help clients develop their own mobile business applications using Apple’s machine-learning technology. This will make it possible, with the help of augmented reality, to use iPhones or iPads for a range of business tasks, such as...

The Palestinian U.N. ambassador says the European Union, Russia and the United Nations should take action to save a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if the long-awaited U.S. peace plan doesn't lead to two independent nations. Riyad Mansour told a group of journalists...

Britain will hold elections to the European Parliament later this month regardless of what happens in ongoing talks with the opposition to pass a Brexit deal, Prime Minister Theresa May's de facto deputy said on Tuesday. "Given how little time there is... it is regrettably not going to be...

The Palestinians are asking the European Union to pick up the mantle in defense of the two-state solution if the upcoming US peace plan ditches Palestinian statehood, their UN envoy said Tuesday. President Donald Trump's administration is expected to unveil the long-awaited plan possibly as...

Troops loyal to Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar said Tuesday they shot down a warplane and captured its foreign "mercenary" pilot near the capital Tripoli. The Mirage F1 was downed in Al-Hira region, 70 kilometres (43 miles) south of the capital, Haftar's self-styled Libyan...

More than 2,000 people have been arrested in Venezuela for political reasons since the beginning of the year, most of them detained during anti-government protests, an NGO reported Tuesday. "Between January 1 and the month of May 2019, 2,014 persons have been arrested, the majority of them...

The US plans a hefty increase in tariffs on Chinese products, to come into effect on Friday. Experts say that this is a sign of Trump’s frustration over a stalemate in trade negotiations, as real reform of China’s trade practices remains elusive. The US will increase tariffs on 200 billion...

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Tuesday it has launched a four-month program in Israel to help startups grow globally using its experts and tools. The Google Startup Growth Lab Programme has picked eight companies, after a pilot was completed in 2018. “This is a program for startups that...

Egypt's top appeals court Tuesday upheld death sentences for 13 members of a disbanded militant group who were convicted of launching attacks on security forces, a judicial source and lawyer said. The 13 had appealed to the Court of Cassation after a Cairo criminal court handed them the...

British Prime Minister Theresa May faced renewed pressure Tuesday from lawmakers in her Conservative Party to abandon efforts to seek a Brexit compromise deal with the opposition Labor Party. After several weeks of fruitless negotiations, senior Conservative and Labor lawmakers resumed...

Iran's top security body dismissed as "psychological warfare" a U.S. announcement that a carrier strike group and bombers are being sent to the Middle East as a message to Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Tuesday. U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said on...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) called Tuesday for the release of more than 3,000 migrants, mainly Ethiopians, who it said remain held in inhumane conditions in two detention centres in southern Yemen. The detentions began two weeks ago in the city of Aden and the...

The head of the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that fresh trade tensions between the United States and China were the main threat to the world economy. "Clearly the tensions between the United States and China are the threat for the world economy," Christine Lagarde told...

At least one of the weapons North Korea fired at the weekend had many of the hallmarks of a missile, but that was the one word conspicuously missing from descriptions of the tests by Washington, Seoul, and even Pyongyang. North Korea wanted to express to the United States its frustration...

Libya’s internationally recognised government said Monday its head Fayez al-Sarraj will tour Europe to seek support against an attack on Tripoli by strongman Khalifa Haftar, who urged his troops to “wipe out” government forces. Sarraj, who heads the Tripoli-based Government of National...

What lies behind the arrests of the powerful brother of Algeria's deposed president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and two former intelligence chiefs? The three have long been considered among the most powerful men in Algeria, but they are now facing charges including "conspiring" against the state....

U.S. acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Monday he had approved sending a carrier strike group and bombers to the Middle East because of indications of a “credible threat by Iranian regime forces,” but did not provide any details on the underlying intelligence. U.S. national...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced initiatives to protect biodiversity and the environment, following the publication of landmark UN report on the state of the natural world. "What is at stake is the very possibility of having a habitable Earth," Macron said after meeting...

The US Treasury will not hand President Donald Trump's tax returns over to Democratic lawmakers, defying a demand from Congress, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Monday. The request by the House Committee on Ways and Means "lacks a legitimate purpose," meaning the US Treasury is...