Turks in Austria should be included in efforts to address their needs, the head of Turkey's Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities said Friday. “We made it clear that otherwise, any solution brought forth will be decidedly against the sociology of the Turkish society living...

TUNIS: The trial reopened Friday of suspects in the deadly jihadist attack on the Tunisian capital's Bardo museum in 2015, with the hearing relayed by video to Paris for French victims' families. Several of the suspects in the attack that left 22 dead testified as the trial started in...

Emmanuel Macron's popularity has picked up from record opinion poll lows since his launch of a "great national debate" in France in a bid to prove he will take on board the fierce criticism of "yellow vest" protesters who have upended the centrist president's reform agenda. After losing 15...

Qatar said Friday it will adopt a new formula for aid to Gaza after the Palestinian enclave's rulers Hamas rejected a cash injection over alleged unacceptable Israeli conditions. The Qatari ambassador to the Gaza Strip, Mohammed al-Emadi, said that his country would now channel millions of...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will press UN Security Council members to recognize Juan Guaido as acting president of Venezuela during an upcoming crisis meeting, the State Department said Friday. The United States requested Saturday's session after it threw its support behind the...

Five people were killed when a helicopter collided with a light aircraft in the Alps in northern Italy, mountain rescue officials said. Italy's mountain rescue service reported on Twitter "a crash between a helicopter and a light aircraft" above Rutor glacier, in the Aosta Valley near...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday suspended the country's top judge just weeks from elections, triggering condemnation from opposition parties who accused him of "an act of dictatorship" and mounting "a judicial coup". The former military ruler, 76, is seeking re-election at...

Brazilian authorities are to scrutinize the bank accounts of First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro as part of a growing scandal over suspect payments involving the president's politician son, according to media. The tax office activated the inquiry after a government financial crimes watchdog,...

At least eight Nigerian soldiers have been killed in an Boko Haram attack on an army position in the restive northeast, local media reported on Friday. The deadly attack occurred in the heavily fortified northeastern Geidam town on Wednesday evening, causing multiple injuries to the troops,...

 Roger Stone, a longtime associate and close confidant of U.S. President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday in a pre-dawn FBI raid and indicted on seven counts brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Stone, 66, was taken into custody in Florida and is being charged with obstruction...

Greece’s parliament on Friday ratified a historic deal to end the 28-year dispute over its neighbor Macedonia’s name, paving the way for the Balkan country to join NATO and the EU. The vote passed by 153-146 in the 300-seat parliament, with one abstention. Under the deal, Macedonia will...

Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon Bloc, which dominated Iraqi legislative polls last year, has submitted a bill to parliament that would, if passed, require all foreign military personnel to leave the country within one year. At a Friday press conference in Baghdad, Sairoon Chairman Sabah Assadi...

For the 44th consecutive week, Palestinians on Friday gathered along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in ongoing rallies against Israel’s decades-long occupation. During Friday’s demonstration, at least one Palestinian protester was killed by Israeli army gunfire, according to...

The U.S.-led coalition against Daesh terrorists on Friday said it was investigating possible civilian casualties in an alleged airstrike in Syria earlier this week. "CJTF-OIR takes all allegations of civilian casualties seriously and investigates each incident reported through any means,...

Surveys suggest French President Emmanuel Macron has stemmed a hemorrhage in support as he tours the country to take part in a "great national debate", part of his government's response to anger expressed by the "Yellow Vest" protest movement. The French president, who lost 15 points...

An Iraqi priest who saved a trove of religious manuscripts from the Islamic State group was ordained on Friday as the new Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul. Najeeb Michaeel, 63, was inaugurated in a ceremony in Mosul's St. Paul Church attended by Catholic leaders from the region and the...

The number of people killed in an Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo has risen to 443, health authorities have announced, as new President Felix Tshisekedi began his first full day in office on Friday. The rising death toll -- up by more than 40 in the past ten days -- emphasises the...

Queen Elizabeth II has emphasised the need for Britons to come together to "seek out the common ground", in what is being viewed as an appeal to overcome bitter divisions over Brexit. Government ministers quickly interpreted the comments -- a rare foray for the 92-year-old monarch into the...

Sudan's main opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi on Friday called for President Omar al-Bashir to step down, throwing his support behind anti-government demonstrators after weeks of deadly protest. "This regime has to go immediately," Mahdi told hundreds of worshippers at a mosque in Omdurman,...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey expected a "security zone" to be created in Syria in a few months as the US withdraws militarily from the war-torn country. US President Donald Trump has proposed setting up a 30-kilometre safe zone along the border, but has not specified...