As India prepares to install a nationwide facial recognition system in an effort to catch criminals and find missing children, human rights and technology experts on Thursday warned of the risks to privacy and from increased surveillance. Use of the camera technology is an effort in...

The United Nations chief Antonio Guterres denounced as "disturbing" reports that Iraqi security forces have fired live ammunition at anti-government protesters in Baghdad, as mass rallies continued to rock the capital and southern Iraq. The demonstrations broke out on October 1 in anger...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Over the past two weeks, public discontent spread as a result of looting and theft of civilian property by fractions affiliated to the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army in Ras al-Ain, a newly-captured town from US-backed Kurdish forces.  Abdul Razzaq, a...

Lebanon’s banks are worried that a central bank deadline for compulsory capital increases is too tight as they grapple with the fallout from weeks of anti-government protests, banking sources familiar with the matter said. They said it was possible lenders might ask the banking regulator...