French President Emmanuel Macron's popularity has hit a new low, a poll showed on Sunday, following recent controversies over spending at his residences and cutting remarks he made on welfare benefits. Despite upbeat business sentiment and rising foreign investments, the number of...

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the mother organization of Pakistani militants, on Saturday announced Mufti Noor Wali Mahsud as the group’s new head. The announcement came 10 days after then-TTP head Mullah Fazlullah was killed along with four other militants in a U.S. drone strike...

Police in Kazakhstan detained dozens of people at an anti-government rally on Saturday organised by an exiled opponent of the veteran president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Mukhtar Ablyazov, a former tycoon and government minister, started staging rallies in the ex-Soviet republic earlier...

A blast was heard at a rally in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa on Saturday following a speech by the country’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, a Reuters witness said. The rally was being held in support of the 41-year-old leader, who took office in April. “It was a grenade....