Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Friday ordered the reopening of the country’s border with Colombia in western Tachira state, near where international aid refused by Caracas has amassed. The economically-devastated South American nation is suffering from shortages of food,...

The African Union’s suspension of Sudan over a paramilitary massacre of civilians this week has been welcomed by the international community. But can the bloc succeed in delivering African solutions to African problems? Days after the UN Security Council failed to agree on a statement...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 33 troops from coastal Latakia province killed in northwestern Syria since first of May as regime forces launch major offensive on the last rebel stronghold in the war-torn country, pro-regime media activists said. The death toll included 9 officers....

An explosion thought to have been a bomb rocked a residential street in the town of Linkoping in southern Sweden Friday, damaging several buildings and slightly injuring about 20 people, police officials said. A police bomb squad was investigating the scene of the huge blast, which...