Lewis Hamilton said he was in a "beautiful" trance on Sunday as he raced to another record-breaking triumph to open up a 37-point lead in this year's drivers' championship at the Spanish Grand Prix. His Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff, one of Formula One's greatest pragmatists, agreed, but he...

The agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalise ties would kill the two-state solution, strengthen "extremists" and undermine the "possibility of peace", chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Sunday. The fractured Palestinian leadership -- from the Palestinian...

After two years under house arrest, Palestinian resistance icon Raed Salah began a 17-month jail term on incitement charges. The sentence was scheduled to start in March, but was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Salah, the leader of the northern branch of Islamic Movement in...

At least five people were killed Sunday when gunmen stormed an upscale beachfront hotel in Somalia's capital following a car bomb blast outside, in an attack reminiscent of others carried out by Al-Shabaab militants, a government security official told AFP. "There is still sporadic gunfire...