Oil prices rose on Tuesday, touching a one-week high on expectations of a steep draw in U.S. crude stocks, but edged off gains after Libya announced the reopening of pipelines after a two-year blockade ended recently. Benchmark Brent crude futures LCOc1 were up 40 cents, or 0.7 percent, at...

(Al Jazeera)- A man arrested on suspicion of killing 12 people by driving through a Berlin Christmas market in a lorry has been released because of a lack of evidence, according to the chief federal prosecutor's office. The man released was a young Pakistani refugee who had arrived in...

(Sky News)- Just 3,000 people are believed to be preparing to be evacuated from the last rebel-held area in eastern Aleppo. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 60 buses would pick up the remaining 3,000 fighters and their families. At least 25,000 people have been...

As President Bashar al-Assad's army closed in on the last rebel enclave in Aleppo on Tuesday, Russia, Iran and Turkey said they were ready to help broker a Syrian peace deal. The Syrian army used loudspeakers to broadcast warnings to insurgents that it was poised to enter their rapidly...