Sudan's cabinet Tuesday scrapped a controversial law that severely curtailed women's rights during the 30-year tenure of deposed autocrat Omar al-Bashir, state media reported. Thousands of women were flogged, fined and even jailed during Bashir's ironfisted rule under the archaic...

Lebanon's outgoing prime minister announced Tuesday that he will not head the next government, a move he said aims to expedite the formation a new cabinet in the protest-hit country. Saad Hariri had submitted his administration's resignation on October 29, bowing to popular pressure from a...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Huthi rebels said Tuesday it will release 200 insurgents, as efforts pick up pace to end the conflict in the impoverished country. Patients needing medical care will also be allowed to be flown out of Sanaa airport, which has been closed to...

An Iraqi protester was killed on Tuesday in the capital Baghdad and dozens more wounded across the country's restive south as sit-ins turned violent, medics told AFP. The demonstrator died after being shot by a rubber bullet near Al-Ahrar bridge, which has been sealed off by security forces...