With a year to go until the Expo 2020 trade fair, the mammoth venue in Dubai's desert is currently a tangle of steel, concrete and dust. But the emirate, hit hard by a downturn, hopes the event will deliver an economic shot in the arm when it launches in October next year. Dubai,...

 Kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf spent the final months of her life building a political party that she hoped would help shape Syria’s future, drawing the attention of U.S. officials who said it would have a say in what happened once the war ended. To her colleagues in the Future...

An Egyptian Islamist father and his son have been detained unlawfully since 2013 part of the political persecution of ex-aides to deposed president Mohamed Mursi, and should be freed immediately and compensated, U.N. human rights experts said. The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention...

Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi was forecast to be heading for a landslide victory Tuesday in an election the opposition says has been tarnished by fraud while observers reported numerous irregularities. Some polling stations recorded many more votes than registered voters in last...