The U.S. on Thursday called on the UN Security Council to hold an open meeting to discuss the crisis in Venezuela, after mass demonstrations and opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president. The U.S. mission to the UN said on Twitter it has "officially requested an open...

The U.K. believes Venezuelan opposition leader “Juan Guaido is the right person to take Venezuela forward” and it is “supporting the US, Canada, Brazil and Argentina to make that happen,” Britain’s foreign minister said Thursday. Speaking ahead of his meeting with U.S. Vice...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four explosions rocked the rebel-held countryside of Aleppo province on Thursday, leaving one child girl killed and 20 more civilians wounded, local activists said. Four motorbikes laden with explosives hit the towns of al-Ghandoura, Qabassin and al-Bab in...

It has featured among complaints by French "yellow vest" protesters and in populist Italian rhetoric: Africa's CFA franc currency has become an unexpected hot topic on Europe's political fringes. When a list of unofficial "yellow vest" demands went viral in December, some observers were...