Defiant centuries from Soumya Sarkar and Mahmudullah were in vain as Trent Boult's five-wicket haul gave New Zealand a crushing victory over Bangladesh in the first Test by an innings and 52 runs in Hamilton on Sunday. After the stubborn double-century partnership took Bangladesh to 361...

 (Eqtsad)- Residents and displaced in the opposition-held areas in northwestern Syria have been under new suffering as medicines prices vary between area and another and between pharmacies itself. Eqtsad tried to investigate the reasons behind the variation and the increase of...

The grand imam of Egypt's famed Al-Azhar institution, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, has described polygamy as an "injustice" for women. "Polygamy is often an injustice to women and children," said the influential cleric, in quotes published on Twitter late Friday by Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's...

Barcelona won their second Clasico in four days on Saturday and Real Madrid might have to win the Champions League if Santiago Solari is to be in charge for the next one. After knocking them out of the Copa del Rey on Wednesday, Barca returned to the Santiago Bernabeu for a 1-0 victory...

Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sacked his campaign manager on Saturday, state media reported, following mass protests against the ailing leader’s decision to stand for a fifth term in office.   Former premier Abdelmalek Sellal was replaced as campaign manager by Abdelghani...

The United States is expected to move ahead with a downgrade of its mission to the Palestinians on Monday by merging its Jerusalem consulate with the embassy to Israel, a U.S. official said Saturday. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said when announcing the merger in October that it...

A group of Yazidi women and children reunited with their families in Iraq Saturday after five years of captivity at the hands of Daesh (ISIS), hugging and kissing relatives in emotional scenes that underscored their years-long ordeal and that of their devastated community. Elated...

Pakistan said on Thursday that it was considering returning a captured Indian pilot, as U.S. President Donald Trump said American mediation was helping to defuse a crisis between the two nuclear powers a day after both downed enemy jets. The pilot, identified by Islamabad as Wing Commander...

United Nations investigators said on Thursday Israeli security forces may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in killing 189 Palestinians and wounding more than 6,100 at weekly protests in Gaza last year. The independent panel said it had confidential information about those...

Canada must prepare for the return of a dozen or more of its citizens who fought for Daesh, now that the terror organization is near collapse, authorities said Wednesday. Canada said the fighters captured in Syria would probably be released and cross into Turkey, and officials are working...

Israeli fighter jets conducted an airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip early Thursday, according to eyewitnesses. The airstrike reportedly hit a target belonging to the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, west of Khan Yunis. There were no casualties, the sources...

Ukrainian pensioner Nadiya Ignatiy says she has had the plum and cherry trees in her garden cut down for firewood since the government raised gas prices late last year. In next month's election, she will vote against President Petro Poroshenko in favor of an opponent who has pledged to...

Taliban and American officials holding talks in Qatar on ways to end the war in Afghanistan have held “extensive” discussions on how foreign troops could be withdrawn and on how to guarantee the country would not be used again by outside forces to attack other countries, the Taliban said in a...

In Iraq, medicine is a matter of life or death -- not just for patients, but for doctors facing threats by vengeful relatives and emigrating en masse. Shaymaa al-Kamali, a family physician in Baghdad, said her problems began when she barred a patient's father from staying in the hospital...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he hoped the conflict between India and Pakistan will be coming to an end, after the two nuclear powers clashed across a contested border in the disputed Kashmir region. Speaking at a news conference in Vietnam after a second summit with North...

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido was due to arrive in Brazil on Wednesday night to meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as part of a tour of several nations to ratchet up international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to step down. Guaido last month invoked...

At least six people are dead and dozens more are still trapped beneath the rubble of an illegal gold mine that collapsed in Indonesia, officials said Thursday, as rescuers frantically searched for survivors. Some 19 miners have been plucked to safety since Tuesday night's accident and...

China's foreign minister has called on Pakistan and India to avoid escalating tensions, expressing to his Pakistani counterpart "deep concern" over the Kashmir crisis amid fears aerial battles could snowball into an all-out conflict. Wang Yi's comments came as Shah Mehmood Qureshi called...

The United States has requested a vote on Thursday at the UN Security Council on a draft resolution calling for presidential elections in Venezuela and unimpeded deliveries of humanitarian aid, diplomats said. Russia and China, who support President Nicolas Maduro, are likely to veto the...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates led the way Tuesday in contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to help Yemen, where their countries' Western-backed militaries are deeply engaged in a wrenching and bloody fight against Iran-aligned militias. The commitments of $1.5 billion by...