The Venezuelan Embassy in Turkey on Thursday urged solitary from the people of Turkey amid opposition leader Juan Guaido declaring himself interim president.  “We expect solidarity from the Turkish people,” the embassy said in a statement. The move came after the U.S. recognition...

A UN official on extrajudicial executions will be in Turkey next week for an international probe of last fall's killing of a Saudi journalist in Istanbul, UN sources told Anadolu Agency on Thursday.  Agnes Callamard, the UN’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro not to use force against mass demonstrations and urged further international support for the self-declared acting president. A day after the United States and major Latin American nations recognized opposition...

Activists are criticising the World Economic Forum for allowing a large Saudi presence in Davos this week without devoting time to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Saudi presence "is deeply distressing", Amnesty International chief Kumi Naidoo told AFP on the sidelines of the...

A special tribunal has recommended that Interior Minister Matteo Salvini face trial for refusing to let 150 migrants disembark last year from a rescue ship docked in Sicily, the far-right leader said on Thursday. The court, which reviews investigations involving government ministers,...

Kiev's leadership and Western supporters expressed fears over Russian interference in Ukrainian elections this year, at a conference on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. The spectre of a populist candidate winning the presidential vote at the end of March also...

Dutch lawmakers on Thursday grilled a top minister on a controversial bill granting Prime Minister Mark Rutte's government emergency powers to counteract any unforseen post-Brexit effects. The measure would allow ministers to amend laws without a parliamentary nod to cope with "unknown...

A pair of US congressional committees now under Democratic control have begun probing Deutsche Bank's business dealings with President Donald Trump, a spokesperson for the German bank said Thursday. The inquiry is a joint effort between House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and...

The U.S. on Thursday called on the UN Security Council to hold an open meeting to discuss the crisis in Venezuela, after mass demonstrations and opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president. The U.S. mission to the UN said on Twitter it has "officially requested an open...

The leaders of Britain’s two largest trade unions on Thursday called on Prime Minister Theresa May to delay Brexit to prevent a no-deal exit from the EU. In separate meetings with May, Len McCluskey of Unite and Dave Prentis of Unison discussed the severity of leaving the EU without a deal...

The U.K. believes Venezuelan opposition leader “Juan Guaido is the right person to take Venezuela forward” and it is “supporting the US, Canada, Brazil and Argentina to make that happen,” Britain’s foreign minister said Thursday. Speaking ahead of his meeting with U.S. Vice President Mike...

Iran never destroyed its Arak nuclear reactor, a precondition of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (IAEO) was quoted as saying by state media. IAEO chief Ali Akbar Salehi told a local television channel Thursday that the Arak...

The U.S. on Thursday issued sanctions against two foreign fighter militias tied to Iran and an Iranian civilian airline accused of carrying weapons to Syria. The Treasury Department designated the two militias as the Fatemiyoun Division, which is composed of Afghan nationals, and the...

Hamas on Thursday announced its refusal to accept fresh financial aid from Qatar to protest what it described as “extortion” by Israel. “We are rejecting this third Qatari grant to protest the Israeli occupation’s behavior,” leading Hamas member Khalil al-Hayya said at a press conference in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four explosions rocked the rebel-held countryside of Aleppo province on Thursday, leaving one child girl killed and 20 more civilians wounded, local activists said. Four motorbikes laden with explosives hit the towns of al-Ghandoura, Qabassin and al-Bab in...

It has featured among complaints by French "yellow vest" protesters and in populist Italian rhetoric: Africa's CFA franc currency has become an unexpected hot topic on Europe's political fringes. When a list of unofficial "yellow vest" demands went viral in December, some observers were...

Senior European lawmakers warned Thursday they will not ratify a Brexit withdrawal deal if it is stripped of guarantees on the Irish border issue. Prime Minister Theresa May last year signed an agreement with her EU colleagues to allow Britain's orderly departure from the European Union on...

A bomb attack hit a northeastern neighbourhood of the Syrian capital Thursday, state media said, in the third such explosion in a regime-held area in less than a week. State news agency SANA reported "a terrorist bombing in the Adawi area with an explosive device planted in a car, causing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee man stabbed his wife to death overnight in the German province of Hessen, local media outlets reported Thursday. The 22-year-old refugee wife and the mother of two was brutally killed by her husband in a pre-dawn quarrel in a town near Frankfurt...

The world is facing worrying "fragmentation", UN chief Antonio Guterres said Thursday, warning that the relationship between the United States, Russia and China was worryingly out of kilter. "The relationship between the three most important powers, Russia, the United States and China, has...