She may have spent 40 days in jail for demonstrating against president Omar al-Bashir who has since been toppled but activist Amani Osmane says the battle for women's rights in Sudan is far from over. Women have been at the forefront of the revolt which led to Bashir's overthrow by the...

There will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release a British-flagged tanker seized in the Gulf, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. The Stena Impero's owners say they have been unable to contact their vessel, which had 23 personnel on board and was "heading north towards...

Syrian activists and their supporters around the world have been on a rolling hunger strike to protest the Assad regime and Russia's continuing assault on the Idlib province, which has left hundreds of people dead and displaced over 350,000 people since it began in April 2019. The...

A powerful committee of British lawmakers on Friday urged the next prime minister to decide quickly on the role China’s Huawei will have in next-generation 5G telecommunications networks to avert more damage to Britain’s international relations. The UK is a battleground in a...