Mexican forensics experts have found at least 29 bodies stuffed in 119 plastic bags that were dumped in the bottom of a well outside the western city of Guadalajara, officials said Tuesday. Experts have been working to establish how many victims are in the mass grave since it was discovered...

 Saudi Arabia’s oil supply is fully back online after weekend attacks halved output and the kingdom will achieve 11 million barrels per day (bpd) capacity by the end of September and 12 million bpd by the end of November, the energy minister said on Tuesday. Minister Prince Abdulaziz...

Teenage star Ansu Fati became Barcelona's youngest ever Champions League debutant after being named in the starting line-up for the Catalan giants' campaign opener away to Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday. The 16-year-old, who became the club's youngest ever scorer with his maiden strike...

Egypt has ordered Italy’s former honorary consul to stand trial in absentia over charges of attempting to smuggle thousands of artefacts out of the country, the public prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday. Ladislav Otakar Skakal, Italy’s former honorary consul in Luxor, attempted last year...

Mexico’s government will uphold its pledge to keep fuel prices stable and has gasoline supplies secured despite attacks on Saudi oil sites, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday. Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference that officials from the finance ministry and state...

Protesters massed in the Algerian capital on Tuesday to demand the cancellation of a controversial presidential election planned for December 12. Interim leader Abdelkader Bensalah announced the poll on Monday in a bid to resolve the political deadlock gripping the country since the April...

Three Russian border guards were wounded in a confrontation with North Korean poachers, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday. The incident happened in the Sea of Japan, in Russian territorial waters, the FSB Public Relations Center said in a statement on its official...

The Venezuelan government and five opposition party leaders announced they agreed on starting a new dialogue process to tackle problems in the nation. Main opposition leader Juan Guaido was not part of the new deal announced Monday and he said the Norway-mediated negotiations are...

Mohammad Zarqawi ambled around his narrow shop in central Damascus, filling plastic bags with colourful spices and herbs, their aroma spilling out into a dim market once bustling with customers. The middle-aged shop owner said business has slowed since the value of the Syrian pound...

An attack on Saudi oil installations that halted half the kingdom’s output could harm French diplomacy meant to avert feared U.S.-Iranian conflict, diplomats said after President Emmanuel Macron’s top envoy held talks in Saudi Arabia. They said France was trying to pinpoint the origin of...

Drones from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) targeted Mitiga International Airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli, the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) said on Tuesday. "Emirati drones, supporters of the war criminal [Khalifa] Haftar, target Mitiga International Airport,"...

Law professor Kais Saied and detained media mogul Nabil Karoui won most votes in the first round of Tunisia's presidential election and will contest a runoff vote, the independent electoral commission said Tuesday. Saied won 18.4 percentage of votes and Karoui 15.6 percentage, while...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) announced the start of the school season, anticipating more than 500,000 students in territory it controls in northeastern Syria, amid criticism of the situation of school buildings in Deir Ezzor and the curricula used in Hasaka, Tal...

Amid a flurry of Twitter posts on Monday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump turned to the weekend attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities and assured his audience the United States had become such a big producer it no longer needed oil from the Middle East. U.S. government data tells a...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called for a return to an international deal curbing Iran’s nuclear activities as the only way to defuse tensions in the Middle East. “We believe that the deal to stop Iran from acquiring military nuclear capabilities is a building block we need to...

Saudi King Salman said on Tuesday that Riyadh was capable of dealing with the consequences of attacks on its installations. A statement issued after a meeting of Saudi Arabia’s council of ministers said the cabinet had reviewed the damage caused by the attacks on Aramco installations, and...

Europe's most prestigious football tournament, the UEFA Champions League campaign, will start on Tuesday with the first games of the group stages. A total of 32 clubs will compete to lift the Champions League Cup at the end of the 2019-2020 season. The first games of the group stages...

 Overnight air strikes killed 10 pro-Iranian Iraqi militiamen in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Tuesday, without specifying who carried them out. The strikes targeted "three positions of the (Iranian) Revolutionary Guards and allied (Iraqi) militias" in Albu Kamal, in the...

Iran has charged three detained Australians with spying, a judiciary spokesperson said Tuesday, after the reported arrest of a travel-blogging couple and an academic. Two of the Australians were alleged to have used a drone to take pictures of military sites, while a third was accused of...

Lawyers in flowing black courtroom gowns, doctors in white coats and uniformed airline pilots marched through Paris on Monday to protest at French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms. Macron’s government has just launched one of the most ambitious reforms of his presidency to merge...