German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Turkey's use of an Interpol arrest warrant to detain a German writer in Spain, telling an election town hall event on Sunday that this amounted to abuse of the international police agency. Dogan Akhanli was stopped in Spain on Saturday...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli opposition lawmakers Sunday that he had proposed rolling back his month-old suspension of security coordination with Israel, but that they did not respond to the overture, the delegation said. Abbas suspended ties on July 21, demanding that...

The U.N.'s refugee agency (UNHCR) on Sunday voiced "grave concern" over the eviction of 800 people from a Rome building squatted mainly by asylum seekers and refugees from Eritrea and Ethiopia. The agency said 200 of those expelled from the building on Saturday had had to sleep on the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A leaked official document showed that the second son of Syria's Defense Minister, had been charged with harassment twenty years ago, such a crime never been an obstacle for him to be senior judge. The Syrian criminal record obtained by Zaman al-Wasl newspaper,...