The French government is under growing pressure to follow other European countries in banning controversial rubber-ball launchers used by riot police amid a spate of serious injuries suffered by Yellow Vest protesters. France’s legal advisory body, the Council of State, was due to examine...

Security agents briefly detained a senior leader of Sudan's main opposition party Wednesday, her family said, as authorities pressed on with a crackdown on anti-government protests that have rocked the country. Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi, deputy chief of the Umma party, had been taken away...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian General Conscription Department has sent new conscription calls for men in the eastern suburbs of Damasucs to perform the reserve service, activists said Wednesday. Most of the Syrian young men in the capital's Eastern Ghouta have rejected the regime’s...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has alleged that the U.S. and Colombian presidents have hatched a plot to murder him. In a no-holds-barred interview to Russian news agency RIA Novosti, Maduro said: "Without a doubt, Donald Trump has given the order to kill me and has told the Colombian...