France on Thursday recalled ambassador to Italy for consultations in wake of Italian government's meeting with Yellow Vest protestors. "France has been, for several months, the target of repeated, baseless attacks and outrageous statements (by the Italian government)," French Foreign...

The Iranian government arrested, imprisoned or executed at least 860 journalists in the three decades between the Islamic revolution in 1979 and 2009, according to documents leaked to media monitoring group Reporters Sans Frontieres. At a news conference in Paris attended by Iranian...

The United Nations aid chief on Thursday urged Yemen's Huthi rebels to grant access in the coming days to a food storage site in Hodeida containing enough grain to feed millions of starving civilians. The Huthis are refusing to allow UN aid agencies to cross front lines and reach the Red...

The Ramallah-based Palestinian government has reduced monthly stipends paid to the families of Palestinians martyred or imprisoned by Israel, according to local sources.  Daoud Shihab, a spokesman for the Islamic Jihad movement, said: "Cutting stipends for the families of martyrs,...