The French government must implement bold tax cuts, the prime minister said Monday, after a mass public consultation called in the wake of "yellow vest" protests that shook President Emmanuel Macron. Giving the first conclusions of a "Great National Debate" which was launched in January in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has listed conditions to accept a U.S. back-channel peace plan known as "deal of the century", in a move seen by analysts as aiming to court voters ahead of Tuesday's general election. In an interview with Israel Hayom newspaper, Netanyahu, the...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates pledged $200 million in aid to Yemen, to be spent during the month of Ramadan, the UAE’s Minister of State for International Cooperation said on Monday. Both countries are working with humanitarian organizations to ensure the aid would be...

Over three months, France's "Great National Debate" has led to 10,000 local meetings, around two million online contributions and 100 hours of presidential talking. On Monday, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe begins trying to make sense of it all. The debate was launched in January by...