An Indonesian air liner has crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta with 189 people on board. Fears for passengers and crew aboard the Lion Air Boeing 737 jet were growing as search-and-rescue workers attempted to sift through wreckage in waters up to 35m deep....

Slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi was about to disclose some detailed information about Saudi Arabia’s use of chemical weapons in Yemen and the U.K. had been made aware of a planned plot against him weeks before he was killed in the Saudi Consulate building in Istanbul, a British tabloid...

Some states hinder our work in raising awareness about the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, head of a rights groups said Sunday. In a special interview to Anadolu Agency, Kyaw Win, director of Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN), said: “Some countries in the UN Security Council seem to...

Georgians on Sunday are holding the last popular election for the nation’s president, with lawmakers set to choose the leader from now on, heralding a shift from a presidential to a parliamentary system of government in 2023. Under constitutional changes approved last year, the...