The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Monday to extend its ceasefire observation mission in the Yemeni port city of Hodeida by six months, until January 15 2020. It also called on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to deploy a full contingent of observers "expeditiously" in the...

Egypt's Parliament Monday removed jail penalties from a law controlling operations of non-governmental organizations, but rights groups rejected the changes as insufficient. Justified by officials to protect national security from meddling by foreign-funded charities, the 2017 law...

Yemen's warring sides have met for the first time in five months to discuss redeployment of forces from the flashpoint port city of Hodeida. Wadah Dabish, a spokesman for the forces loyal to the internationally recognized government, says the meeting took place late Sunday abroad a U.N....

Environmental activists sought to sow chaos in five British cities Monday in a bid to force the government to act to help avert what they cast as a climate cataclysm. The Extinction Rebellion group disrupted London with 11 days of protests in April that it cast as the biggest act of...