Gunmen and at least one suicide bomber attacked a Government building in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, wounding nine people including a child and a woman, officials said. Attackers detonated explosives outside the building, used for the distribution of electronic identity cards,...

Gambling-mad Hong Kong has cancelled a horse racing event just hours before its start over fears anti-government protesters might disrupt a race featuring a mount part-owned by a controversial pro-Beijing lawmaker. Frequently violent demonstrations featuring hundreds of thousands of...

Britain’s Supreme Court will continue hearing legal arguments on Wednesday from the government and its opponents on whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully when he decided to suspend parliament in the run-up to Brexit. The court heard on Tuesday from one of Johnson’s...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The death toll of Iran-backed militnats hit by suspected Saudi airstrikes in eastern Syria has reached 17, local activists said Wednesday. Tuesday's overnight strikes targeted "three positions of the (Iranian) Revolutionary Guards and allied (Iraqi) militias" in...