Demonstrators braved freezing temperatures on Tuesday to protest against the awarding of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke because of his support for the late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. Handke and the Nobel laureates in chemistry, medicine, physics...

The United Nations is “unable to independently corroborate” that missiles and drones used in attacks on Saudi oil facilities in September “are of Iranian origin,” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Tuesday. The United States, European powers and Saudi Arabia...

Six people, including a police officer, were killed in a gun battle Tuesday at a kosher supermarket in the U.S. state of New Jersey, said authorities. Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly said the casualties included two suspected gunmen and three people believed to be civilians. "We...

Saudi Aramco's shares begin trading domestically on Wednesday, after the energy behemoth raised $25.6 billion in the world's biggest initial public offering. Aramco has priced its IPO at 32 riyals ($8.53) per share, the high end of the target range, surpassing the $25 billion raised by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Front on Tuesday has killed four regime troops in TOW missile attack in northwestern Hama province, military source told Zaman al-Wasl. The Turkish-backed group has targeted regime forces in the Ghap Plain, one of the regime's main manpower supply....

An estimated 339,000 people took part in a second nationwide protest against pension reform in France, 31,000 people of them in Paris, the Interior Ministry said. The number of protesters is less than half of the number of people who marched in the first demonstration last week. On Dec. 5,...

Arms control, election security and national security are expected to be on the agenda on Tuesday when President Donald Trump meets Russia’s top diplomat, whose last White House visit was a public relations disaster for the U.S. leader. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is due to see...

Lebanon does not expect new aid pledges at conference which France is hosting on Wednesday to press for the quick formation of a new government that can tackle an acute financial crisis. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian urged Lebanon to create a new government swiftly or risk the...

Some European city mayors whose national governments are in conflict with Brussels could seek ways to access European Union funds directly, the mayor of Poland’s capital Warsaw said on Tuesday. Rafal Trzaskowski said EU funding was one area in which he and counterparts from Czech capital...

Six migrants have died from exposure on the Greek-Turkish border in recent days, a Greek local coroner said Tuesday. Pavlos Pavlidis told reporters two women, believed to be of African origin, and six men aged between 18 and 30, were found dead between December 5 and December 8 in the Evros...

The United States Tuesday barred from entering the country Mohammed al Otaibi, who served as the Saudi consul general in Istanbul when Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in his consulate in 2018, the U.S. State Department said. Otaibi previously was the subject of a U.S. asset...

Finland's Sanna Marin, 34, was officially appointed as the country's prime minister on Tuesday, becoming the world's youngest sitting head of government. The former transport minister takes the helm of a coalition of five parties that will all be led by women, once the prime minister takes...

Kosovo prosecutors on Tuesday filed terrorism charges against an ethnic Albanian man who is accused of joining a terror group in Syria. Prosecutors said in a statement that the man, identified as V.Q., joined the Islamic State group in June 2014 together with another person who was...

Sudan’s ousted long-time leader Omar al-Bashir was summoned for questioning on Tuesday over his role in the 1989 coup that brought him to power. Bashir, who ruled Sudan until the military removed him in April following months of street protests, was charged in May with incitement and...

The African Union (AU), non-aligned Movement, and the Arab League on Tuesday pledged to continue their support for the realization of Palestinian independence statehood. This comes in a meeting of hundreds of diplomats, officials and friends of Palestine gathered in the Ethiopian capital...

The Turkish Defense Ministry released a video Tuesday showing reopening of mosques and churches in Syria's northern towns of Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ayn. After repairing damage done by the Kurdish YPG militia, Turkey has returned mosques and churches in northern Syria to the service of...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday he was ready to send troops to Libya if requested by the internationally recognized government in Tripoli. "On the issue of sending soldiers... If Libya makes such a request from us, we can send our personnel there, especially after...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian Tuesday urged the Lebanese to form a new government swiftly or risk a financial crisis worsening and threatening the country's stability. "(They should) form a government quickly because any delay will continue to worsen the situation," Le Drian...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman opened a Gulf Arab summit Tuesday by calling for regional unity to confront Iran and secure energy supplies and maritime channels. "Our region today is passing through circumstances and challenges that require concerted efforts to confront them as the Iranian...

Tears roll out from behind Ayat's oversized glasses but her hands, facing the sky, are steady. Her friends are gone, killed protesting Iraq's government, but their "revolution" continues. "Peace be upon you and on your two rivers, Iraq," sings Kazem Saher as young demonstrators mourn their...