The U.S. government filed a motion on Wednesday asking for the dismissal of a lawsuit by Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd that claimed the United States had acted illegally when it blacklisted Huawei’s products. Huawei sued the U.S. government in early March, in a...

Google has suspended an email alerting system in New Zealand following criticism by the government for publishing suppressed details of a murder case, the company said on Friday. The suspension of the service comes as the Alphabet-owned giant and its peers, such as Facebook Inc and Twitter...

Saudi-led military coalition said on Thursday it had intercepted drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi group that was targeting Jizan airport, a statement on Saudi state media said. Earlier, the Houthis said they carried out drone attacks on Jizan and Abha Saudi airports. Iran-aligned...

Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for an attack that killed two police officers and two soldiers on patrol in patrol in Lebanon’s Tripoli last month, the group’s Al-Nabaa newspaper said. Islamic State said in its weekly newspaper that the “attacker is of the caliphate...

Sri Lanka is moving to curtail Saudi Arabian influence, after some politicians and Buddhist monks blamed the spread of the kingdom’s ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Islam for planting the seeds of militancy that culminated in deadly Easter bomb attacks. On April 21, nine Sri Lankans...

Hatice Ahmet, who was arrested by the regime forces in Syria along with her four friends, cannot forget the tortures she has been subjected to in the Bashar al-Assad regime’s underground prison.  The 38-year-old survivor was arrested four years ago in Damascus for allegedly providing...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was worried that militants were flowing into Libya from Syria's Idlib province and warned that the Libyan situation was deteriorating. Putin, who was speaking at a news conference in Rome after holding talks with Italian Prime Minister...

Iran demanded Friday that Britain immediately release an oil tanker it has detained in Gibraltar, accusing it of acting at the bidding of the United States. A senior Foreign Ministry official "described the U.K. move as unacceptable" in a meeting with the British ambassador, who had been...

Leaders of Sudan's pro-democracy movement, which drove longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir from power in April, have welcomed a power-sharing agreement with the ruling military council as a victory for their "revolution." The Sudanese Professionals' Association, which has spearheaded protests...

Student unions from two Hong Kong universities said Friday that they have turned down invitations from city leader Carrie Lam for talks about the recent unrest over her proposal to allow the extradition of suspects to mainland China. The invitations followed a pledge by Lam to do a better...

An Italian humanitarian group is refusing to bring 54 migrants rescued at sea to Malta because of the distance and psychological conditions of those on board one of its ships, which is being barred from docking in Italy. Mediterranea Saving Humans tweeted Friday that its ship was off...

The first of the Russian S-400 defense systems that Ankara has purchased will be loaded on to cargo planes Sunday and arrive in Turkey some time next week, privately-held broadcaster Haberturk reported. Washington has said that U.S. sanctions would be triggered when the missile batteries...

Acute malnutrition, forced labour, torture: NGOs have sharpened their tone against the shocking conditions endured by refugees and migrants in Libya, where over 40 people were killed in an air strike on a detention centre. Tuesday night's strike on the centre at Tajoura near the capital...

Syrian Activists surfaced on social media  photos of a Turkish citizen, originally from Syria, as he showed support to Turkish opposition party (CHP) and for Bashar al-Assad. In the first picture, the man, who known as Gunai,  has appeared standing beside a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists said the Lebanese security had arrested activist Ahmed al-Khader two weeks ago in Beirut  over no concrete charges and  in spite of his legal residency. Al-Khader fled the town of al-Hola in central Homs province to Lebanon,...

South Korea said on Thursday it may retaliate against Japan’s latest export limits on high-tech materials, as a row over forced wartime labor threatened to disrupt global supplies of memory chips and smartphones. Samsung Electronics Co and SK Hynix Inc  the world’s top memory...

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb blast in the Tunisian capital earlier this week, the militant group’s Amaq news agency said on Thursday. A wanted militant wearing an explosives belt blew himself up in Tunis on Tuesday after being surrounded by police, the...

The U.N. human rights chief says in a new report that Venezuela's government registered nearly 5,300 killings during security operations last year, saying the deaths stemmed from "resistance to authority." Another 1,569 such killings were recorded in the first four to five months of 2019....

Hong Kong's chief executive Carrie Lam has asked to meet with the city's university students, her office said Thursday evening, as the embattled leader tries to fend off pressure from a month-long political crisis. Protesters stormed the local parliament on Monday, the 22nd anniversary of...

Thirty-four protesters have been arrested in Algeria since June 21 for carrying the Berber flag during demonstrations – a crackdown which has further inflamed the popular movement’s antagonism towards the government. Weekly protests have continued unabated in Algeria since then president...