Hundreds of students and doctors rallied in Algiers Tuesday calling for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down after his term expires on April 28. Students massed in the centre of Algiers while doctors protested at another location in the Algerian capital calling for Bouteflika to quit...

Cristiano Ronaldo rejoined his Portugal team-mates on Tuesday ahead of the start of Euro 2020 qualifying this week following a nine-month absence from the national team. The 34-year-old Juventus forward was recalled by Portugal coach Fernando Santos for games at home to Ukraine and Serbia,...

The US on Tuesday accused Russia and China of raising the risk of conflict in space, notably by developing anti-satellite weapons, as diplomats held talks on a treaty to keep space peaceful. The closed-door negotiations in Geneva involving experts from 25 governments -- including the US,...

Scores of Palestinians staged a rally in the West Bank city of Al-Bireh on Tuesday in support of detainees in Israeli prisons.  The protest was organized outside the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the city.  Addressing the rally, Kaddura Faris, the...

A Turkish aid group delivered 1,000 tankers of water to families in war-torn Yemen, the charity said on Tuesday. The Istanbul-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) said in a statement that Yemenis in the region have difficulty in finding clean water due to drought and the civil war....

A shroud of black smoke covered the Islamic State group's last Syria redoubt on Monday as US-backed forces battled holdout jihadists after a night of shelling and heavy air strikes. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic forces have been closing in on IS fighters holed up in a small sliver of...

The Syrian government's threat to recover the Kurdish-led region of northern Syria through force unless it submits to state rule shows Damascus is determined to pursue a policy of "oppression and violence", the Kurdish-led administration said. The threat was made by Syria's defense minister...

Representatives of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido have taken control of three of the country’s diplomatic properties in the United States, Guaido’s U.S. envoy said on Monday, as the opposition presses its bid to oust socialist President Nicolas Maduro. The envoy, Carlos Vecchio,...

The number of people killed in a powerful storm and preceding floods in Mozambique could exceed 1,000, the president said on Monday, putting the potential death toll greatly more than current figures. Eighty-four deaths have been confirmed so far in Mozambique as a result of Cyclone...

China played a “constructive role” in reducing tension between Pakistan and India, the foreign ministry said, after the nuclear-armed rivals almost came to blows last month following an attack on an Indian paramilitary convoy in disputed Kashmir. The sparring threatened to spiral out of...

Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans were thrown into further turmoil on Monday when the speaker of parliament ruled that she could not put her divorce deal to a new vote unless it was re-submitted in fundamentally different form. In comments that blindsided May’s office, Speaker John...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia besieging Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria said on Tuesday it had captured “157 experienced terrorists, mostly foreign nationals”. The operation was carried out at Baghouz, the site of the Islamic State enclave, by SDF...

new Algerian group headed by political leaders, opposition figures and activists has called on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down at the end of his term on April 28, and urged the army not to interfere in politics. In a statement titled “Platform of Change”, the National...

Brazil's new right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, signed a deal Monday to open a base to US satellite launches as he appealed for warm relations with Donald Trump on a visit to Washington. The outspoken conservative, who will meet Trump at the White House on Tuesday, has ideological...

Boeing's 737 MAX aircraft are grounded across the world following the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302, casting a harsh spotlight on the plane's safety certification and the close relationship between Boeing and American authorities. Nearly 10 days later, what do we know? - What...

A century after Egypt's March 1919 revolution, the prominent Wafd party credited with leading popular demands to end the British occupation, has now been largely sidelined on the country's political scene, analysts say. A one-time liberal opposition force with a mass following, Wafd is...

The beaten candidate in last month's Nigerian presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, on Monday lodged a legal challenge to the official result, his lawyer said. Muhammadu Buhari, 76, was re-elected president after a delayed poll that angered voters and raised political temperatures, but...

The assault on worshippers at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem last week by Israeli forces is yet another sobering reminder of ills afforded by Washington's unwavering support for Israel, a Muslim-American advocacy group said Monday. Around 16 Palestinians were injured, according to...

The U.S. maintains nearly 2,000 troops in Syria after announcing it would start withdrawing from Syria in mid-March and leave a few hundreds. In statements Dec. 19 and 20 last year, U.S. President Donald Trump declared victory over the Daesh terror group, saying its defeat was the sole...

Syrian refugees in Lebanon will not be able to return home as long as the Bashar al-Assad regime rejects taking them back, veteran Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt said Monday. Jumblatt, president of the Progressive Socialist Party, said the refugees are afraid to go back home out of...