Egypt’s Mostaqbal Watn (Nation’s Future) Party took a commanding lead in parliamentary polls on Sunday as the election commission announced results from a second round of voting. Pre-selected lists headed by the party, which strongly supports Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, won...

Peru's interim president, Manuel Merino, resigned on Sunday, less than a week into his new administration, after protests calling for his removal left two dead and dozens injured, plunging the country into yet another political crisis.  "I want to let the whole country know that I'm...

Amid stalled peace talks with the Taliban, Afghanistan on Sunday issued a list of at least 1,100 insurgents killed in ongoing clashes during the past 25 days. According to the Interior Ministry, scores of key Taliban commanders and foreign militants have been killed by Afghan forces in this...

Iranian opposition figure Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife, under house arrest for nearly a decade, have tested positive for Covid-19, an opposition website reported on Sunday. Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard "were examined by a doctor at their home... and their general state of health...