Lebanon's new cabinet Thursday approved a policy statement expected to outline a broad action plan to save the protest-hit country from one of its worst economic crises in decades. Information minister Manal Abdel Samad said the document was backed unanimously during a cabinet meeting at...

Russia on Thursday rejected proposals to slash crude output at an OPEC+ meeting, media reported, and asked for more time to assess the impact of a new coronavirus on crude prices. Delegates of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and non-member Russia -- together known as...

 Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday pardoned more than 6,000 prisoners, extending a process of clemency that has outdone in scale similar conciliatory gestures by his predecessors. Tebboune, elected in December in a vote rejected by a mass protest movement seeking the...

Large and small municipalities across France will see demonstrations later on Thursday as French citizens continue to protest the government reforms in the pension system. Mobilizations are set to take place in the capital as well as major cities of France from the east-central region of...