President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia will from next year increase taxes on high earners, the first hike in decades, as he laid out measures to tackle the economic fallout of the coronavirus. Putin said that from January 1, 2021 the tax rate will rise from 13 percent to 15...

Sudan's foreign minister said Tuesday that her country is nearing a deal with Washington to compensate the families of victims of deadly 1998 embassy bombings, paving the way to Khartoum's removal from a US terror blacklist. Massive, nearly simultaneous blasts at the American embassies in...

A Palestinian man was shot dead Tuesday at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank after driving his car "quickly" towards a border officer, Israeli police said. The Palestinian was "shot and killed" at a checkpoint in Abu Dis, close to Jerusalem, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said....

An Iranian official confirmed Tuesday the arrest of three members of a student charity but denied the organisation's offices had been shut, ILNA news agency reported. "The recent arrest of three members of Imam Ali's (Popular Students Relief) Society was done based on a court order," Zahra...