Venezuela former foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez Friday was elected President of the "Constituent Assembly,” a new legislative body with supreme powers packed with supporters of President Nicolas Maduro. The assembly of 500-plus members, which is tasked with rewriting the crisis-wracked...

The State Department has approved the sale of US warplanes to Nigeria to aid its fight against Boko Haram militants, ending a suspension of weapons sales that followed a deadly Nigerian military strike on a refugee camp. The State Department informed Congress late Wednesday it had approved...

( The New York Times )- A South African tourist who was abducted nearly six years ago from an inn in Timbuktu, Mali, by the North African branch of Al Qaeda has been freed, officials said on Thursday. The tourist, Stephen Malcolm McGown, 42, was the last of the “Timbuktu Three,” who were...

Israeli police will conduct an "examination" into the fatal shooting of two Jordanian nationals by an embassy guard that led to ties between the two states worsening, officials said on Friday. On July 23, a security guard for the Israeli embassy in Amman shot dead a Jordanian worker who had...