(Reuters) -  Saudi Arabia  has postponed Friday's public flogging of activist and blogger Raif Badawi on medical grounds, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Badawi was subjected to the first 50 lashes a week ago and was due to be flogged again after...

TRIPOLI, Reuters - Libyan factions agreed to continue United Nations-backed negotiations in Geneva next week over ending the country's political crisis, the U.N. said, though key representatives from Tripoli's self-declared government have stayed away. Nearly four years after a...

(Reuters) - U.N. aid workers have started delivering food to tens of thousands of people trapped in a besieged district of Homs city in  Syria  following negotiations with warring parties, officials said on Friday. In the absence of a nationwide peace deal, relief groups...

(Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande reassured Muslims on Thursday that his country respected them and their religion but said  France  would not compromise on its commitment to freedom and democracy. Speaking a week after Islamist militant violence that killed...