The IMF Monday urged Middle East and North African countries to accelerate reforms and diversification efforts as the energy-rich region faces unprecedented challenges due to the coronavirus and low oil prices. In its latest regional economic outlook report, the International Monetary Fund...

French police raided the homes Monday of dozens of suspected militants three days after the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the interior minister said. The raids came a day after tens of thousands of people took part in rallies countrywide...

Almost every day Wafa Ali Mustafa posts a number to Facebook. Today she has counted to 2663. Each number represents a day since her father went missing in Damascus more than seven years ago. It is a bitter truth that the disappearance of Wafa's father, Ali, is far from an isolated case....

Torture, humiliation and coerced confessions are rampant in North Korea's pretrial detention system which treats people as worth "less than an animal", a rights group said Monday in a report on the country's opaque legal processes. US-based Human Rights Watch drew on interviews with dozens...