Lewis Hamilton claimed his first win in four races on Sunday when he rode his luck to end Ferrari?s winning streak with a well-judged strategic victory for Mercedes in a roller-coaster Russian Grand Prix. The defending five-time champion came home 3.829 seconds ahead of his team-mate and...

Prominent Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah was detained Sunday morning beyond his overnight probation, his family and a judicial official said. "We don't know where Alaa is... The police station says he's most probably at state security prosecution... we seriously don't have any...

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group on Sunday broadcast footage it said was of a major attack near the border with Saudi Arabia's southern region of Najran, adding that the images showed armored vehicles hit by blasts and surrendering fighters. Saudi Arabia has not yet responded to the Houthi...

Pablo Carreno Busta claimed his first ATP title in more than two years after outlasting Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik to win the Chengdu Open Sunday. The 28-year-old Spaniard collapsed to his knees after prevailing in just over two gruelling hours, 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 7-6 (7/3). The...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz traded blame Sunday over the failure so far of efforts to reach a unity government deal following deadlocked elections. A new round of negotiations between Netanyahu's right-wing Likud and Gantz's centrist Blue and White...

A fire erupted on Sunday at a new high-speed train station in Saudi Arabia's western city of Jeddah, authorities said, with huge palls of smoke seen rising into the air. The station is dedicated to the Haramain High Speed Rail system which opened to the public in October last year,...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that his country is at stake like never before over impeachment investigation. "Because our country is at stake like never before. It is all very simple. They are trying to stop me because I am fighting for you, and I will never let that happen,"...

The death toll from a strong earthquake in Indonesia's eastern province of Maluku has risen to 30 people, the national disaster mitigation agency (BNBP) said Sunday, and hundreds of thousands of people remain in evacuation shelters. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit early Thursday, damaging...

Boris Johnson vowed Sunday to stay on as Britain's prime minister even if he fails to secure a deal to leave the European Union, saying only his Conservative government can deliver Brexit on October 31 no matter what. At the beginning of his party's annual conference in the northern city of...

Saudi Arabia is attempting a comeback on the global stage one year after journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder, but the crisis has weakened it and undermined its de facto leader's ambitious reforms, analysts say. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a self-styled moderniser shaking up the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Iranian-backed sectarian militias have taken control of large parts of eastern Deir Ezzor province since October 2017 following  ISIS (Daesh) defeat and the collapse of the self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate. The militias are comprised ofJerusalem Corp, the...

Afghanistan's presidential election turnout is unofficially estimated at a little over 2 million voters, an election commission official said Sunday. Tight security ensured Afghanistan's presidential election was held Saturday in relative calm, though several small attacks, low turnout and...

The personal bodyguard of Saudi Arabia's King Salman was shot dead in a personal dispute, state television al-Ekhbariya reported on Sunday. Major General Abdul Aziz al-Faghm was killed in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, where the government relocates for the summer months, the broadcaster...

Jose Jose, a velvety-voiced Mexican crooner who was wildly popular in Latin America over a 50-year career that spawned love song after love song, has died, the Mexican government and his son said Saturday. He was 71. Jose Sosa Ortiz, known as the "principe de la cancion," or prince of song,...

China's tightly choreographed 70th birthday bash next week risks being upstaged by pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, which offer a starkly different take on the strength and power of the Communist Party being feted in Beijing. As President Xi Jinping gets ready to preside over a huge...

Donald Trump's administration is amping up an investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, The Washington Post reported Saturday, breathing new life into a pet issue used by the president to rail against his opponent during the 2016 elections. The question of whether Clinton improperly used...

Desperate to escape war and find medical care for their daughter, Jaber Karawan and his wife have spent hundreds of dollars trying to escape northwestern Syria into next-door Turkey. They have tried five times to smuggle themselves and their two children across the border in recent weeks....

French police repeatedly used tear gas and water cannons to break up a protest Saturday by nearly a 1,000 yellow vest demonstrators in the southern city of Toulouse. At least one arrest was made during the march, which started in the afternoon. It was led by demonstrators brandishing a...

A masterpiece by a late Ottoman master was sold at auction on Saturday in London for over 6.3 million pounds (almost $7.4 million). The 1880 painting, Girl Reading the Quran, was the work of Osman Hamdi Bey, a pioneer of Turkish painting who died in 1910, and was sold at the Bonhams auction...

The State Department said Saturday that it would only allow Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to visit the country's ambassador in a U.S. hospital if Tehran releases a detained American citizen. "Foreign Minister Zarif would like to visit a colleague who is in the hospital...