France wants to reach a deal with the US on taxing tech giants by a G7 meeting in late August, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said Saturday. He was responding to US President Donald Trump, who on Friday vowed "substantial" retaliation against France for a law passed this month on taxing...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson cautioned the European Union on Saturday that the “anti-democratic” Irish backstop must be ditched if they were to strike a Brexit divorce deal. Johnson, since taking office on Wednesday, has repeatedly said that if the EU continues to refuse to...

Libya's U.N.-recognized government said its forces struck a desert airbase Friday that has been a key staging post for the transport of troops and supplies by eastern-based strongman Khalifa Haftar. Since April, the government has been battling an offensive against the capital by Haftar's...

Iran's missile tests are part of the country's defensive needs and are not directed against any country, and Tehran does not need any power's permission, the semi-official news agency Fars on Saturday quoted an Iranian military source as saying. A U.S. defense official said Thursday that...

The head of a Sudanese investigation into the violent break up of a protest by security forces said on Saturday that 87 people were killed and 168 wounded in the June 3 incident in Khartoum, citing a higher death toll than previous official estimates. Fath al-Rahman Saeed, the head of the...

Police fired tear gas during clashes in a rural Hong Kong town on Saturday as several thousand activists gathered to protest an attack by suspected triad gang members on protesters and commuters at a train station last weekend. Police, widely criticised for failing to better protect the...

A suicide bomber killed six soldiers Saturday in the southern province of Daraa, in a rare deadly attack against the cradle of the uprising that sparked Syria's war, a monitor said. The bomber, who was riding a motorcycle, blew himself up at a military checkpoint killing the six soldiers...

Russian police detained 317 people on Saturday, including prominent opposition activists, around a political protest in Moscow which authorities had declared illegal. Jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny had called for the protest, near the Moscow mayor’s office, to pressure authorities...

Hazem Tahsin Bek on Saturday succeeded his late father as prince of the Yazidi religious minority that was brutalised by the Islamic State group in northern Iraq. He was enthroned in a ceremony in Lalish, the Yazidis' holiest site in Iraq's mountainous northwest, after having been named by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  At least 11 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in heavy regime airstrikes on the town of Ariha in northwestern Idlib province, local activists said Saturday. Air strikes by the Syrian regime and its allies on schools, hospitals, markets and...

Tunisia will bid farewell to its first democratically elected president Beji Caid Essebsi on Saturday at a state funeral attended by foreign leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron. Essebsi, who helped guide the North African country’s transition to democracy after the 2011...

The Hamas resistance group praised China on Saturday for its stance on the Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in the holy city of Jerusalem. In a written statement, Hamas said Beijing once again demonstrated its commitment to peace and stability in the Middle East. The group called...

 Representatives of the Russian embassy in Iran have visited three Russian crew members from the British vessel Stena Impero detained by Iran, the Russian embassy in Tehran said Saturday. The three crew members are in good health and have no complaints about their conditions, but are...

Bahrain executed Saturday three men convicted in two separate cases, one involving the killing of a police officer and the other the killing of a mosque imam, the public prosecutor said in a statement. Rights groups identified two of the men as Shiite activists Ali al-Arab and Ahmed...

Oman’s minister responsible for foreign affairs held talks with Iran's foreign minister Saturday, Iranian state media reported, as tensions mount in the Gulf between Tehran and Washington. Oman maintains friendly ties with both the United States and Iran and has previously been a go-between...

A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition fighting in Yemen killed or injured 729 children during 2018, accounting for nearly half the total child casualties, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a report to the Security Council on Friday that blacklisted the coalition for a...

 Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian on Friday afternoon during weekly protests along the border with Israel, Gaza health officials said. Thousands of Palestinian gathered along the frontier, and the Israeli army said some in the crowd hurled explosive devices and grenades...

A 30-year-old American held captive in Syria for two months was attempting to visit every country in the world, US media reported Friday, after he had been freed. Sam Goodwin was released by Syrian officials following the mediation of Abbas Ibrahim, the head of Lebanon's internal security,...

The warnings were unambiguous, and now so is the retreat: after threatening to hit Turkey with sanctions for buying a Russian missile defense system, the Trump administration is looking for a way to avoid doing so. Theoretically the sanctions were to be automatic, mandated by Congress, if...

President Donald Trump warned Friday that he would snub Apple's requests for tariff exemptions on device components imported from China, as he put pressure on the tech company to shift production to the United States. "Apple will not be given Tariff wavers, or relief, for Mac Pro parts that...