Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling bloc avoided an embarrassing defeat on Sunday as an ally won reelection as mayor of Yokohama, with the premier planning to reshuffle his cabinet this week in an effort to boost his sagging support ratings. Mayor Fumiko Hayashi, backed by...

Polls opened in Venezuela on Sunday for the election of a new, all-powerful "Constituent Assembly" that President Nicolas Maduro promised would end his country's political and economic crisis by rewriting the constitution. The vote has been fiercely opposed by months of deadly street...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fierce clashes are underway between the Islamic State and regime army in the eastern countryside of Hama left 13 troops dead, medics told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. National hospital of Salamiya town has received 13 corpses for slain soldiers killed in the battleground of...

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager and wounded seven others Friday during clashes near the border fence in Gaza, said the health ministry of Hamas. Abdulrahman Abu Hmeisa, 16, was killed in the clashes east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, ministry...