A Houthi official was killed on Tuesday by gunmen in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, in a rare assassination of a civilian official in the armed movement that controls the city. Hassan Zaid, minister of sports and youth in the Houthi administration, died in hospital from his wounds after gunmen...

India's central bank Shaktikanta Das on Sunday said he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, one of the most high-profile figures in the world's second most-infection nation to contract the infectious disease. "I have tested COVID-19 positive. Asymptomatic. Feeling very much...

CAIRO: Sudan’s former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi Saturday slammed an announcement by President Donald Trump that Sudan would start normalizing ties with Israel. Al-Mahdi, who is the country's last democratically elected premier and heads the country's largest political party, said he...

Lebanese veteran politician Saad al-Hariri was named prime minister for a fourth time on Thursday and pledged to form a new government to tackle the country’s worst crisis since its 1975-1990 civil war. After his nomination, Hariri said he would quickly form a cabinet of specialists to...