Rights groups Wednesday called for a "robust" response to a U.N. expert's allegations that people she met during a visit to Egypt faced harassment, intimidation and other reprisals afterward. A statement signed by six organizations including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International...

With 24 hours left before the scheduled close of U.N.-brokered talks on Yemen, mediators pushed Wednesday for a truce between warring parties as a crucial step to allowing aid deliveries. Mediators are seeking a deescalation of violence in two flashpoint cities: rebel-held Hodeida, a...

A 4-year-old Palestinian boy has died after being injured during clashes between the Israeli army and protesters along the Gaza border, the Health Ministry in Gaza said. "Ahmed Abu Abed, aged four years and eight months, died as a result of the wounds he received last Friday east of...

Egyptian authorities have released a prominent activist and blogger who had criticized the government after more than seven months of detention. Lawyer Gamal Eid says his client, Wael Abbas, was freed late Tuesday, more than a week after a court ordered his conditional release. Eid says...

After four years working "under fire" and interviewing almost 50,000 witnesses, Tunisia's commission tasked with serving justice to victims of half a century of dictatorship is poised to submit its recommendations. Set up in 2014 following the 2011 revolution and in the wake of dictator...

A Canadian judge granted bail Tuesday to a top Huawei executive after her arrest on a US warrant, in a case that has frayed relations between the North American allies and China. Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, is wanted by US authorities for violating Iran sanctions but...

Japan on Wednesday selected the Chinese character for "disaster" as its "defining symbol" for 2018, a year that saw the country hit by deadly floods, earthquakes and storms. Japanese TV stations broadcast the annual announcement live, with Seihan Mori, master of the ancient Kiyomizu...

More suspected Iranian-made weapons have been found in Yemen, the UN says in a report that will be discussed Wednesday by the Security Council. The Gulf monarchies and United States accuse Iran of supporting Huthi rebels in Yemen -- and see this as justification for the military campaign...

At least four people were killed and 11 people were wounded in a shooting near a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday, Interior Ministry said. France's counter-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation into the shooting. The gunman has been identified by the...

Time magazine on Tuesday named a group of journalists, including a slain Saudi Arabian writer and a pair of Reuters journalists imprisoned by Myanmar’s government, as its “Person of the Year,” in a cover story headlined “The Guardians and the War on Truth.” The honor went to a series of...

The abandoned building where Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar lived will be covered in posters paying tribute to the victims of his Medellin Cartel before it is torn down next year. The exhibition is part of a move by municipal authorities to tell the other side of Escobar's story --...

Egypt has warned it will take legal action against Apple if the US tech giant fails to remove alleged "restrictions" on local distributors within 60 days. A decree threatening action was published in the official gazette on Monday after accusations from Egypt's Competition Authority...

The Iraqi military says its jets have bombed two Daesh (ISIS) positions inside Syria that were being used for as meeting places for the militant group. Iraq's Joint Operations Command said in a statement Tuesday that at least 30 Daesh members were present in one of the locations...

Tax relief and other fiscal measures announced by French President Emmanuel Macron to try to calm nationwide protests will cost 10 billion euros ($11 billion), the government said Tuesday. In parliament, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe went to bat for Macron's measures, calling them...

Israeli army on Tuesday announced it had discovered a third tunnel leading into Israeli territory from southern Lebanon, according to a military statement. “The attack tunnel is under the IDF's control and does not pose an imminent threat,” the Israeli army said.  The...

Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others face problems with documentation and property that the Damascus government must help resolve, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said Tuesday. Some 5.6 million Syrian refugees remain in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime-held areas in Deir Ezzor province have been experiencing a shortage of bread for weeks as regime officials attribute increased demand for bread to the influx of people fleeing battlefield of Daesh and US-led forces in the eastern countryside. Despite...

Apart from having the world’s largest mortality rate of under-fives, a UNICEF nutrition expert said Nigeria now has at least 35 million severely malnourished children. UNICEF nutrition experts say the crisis is most prevalent in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe -- the three states in the country’s...

A senior Revolutionary Guards commander said Tuesday that Iran had recently carried out a ballistic missile test but he did not specify what kind of missile had been tested, according to Fars News. The comment appeared to confirm a report by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who said...

A second day of court Monday brought no resolution to the question of whether a senior executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei would be granted bail, with the hearing resuming tomorrow. The arrest of the company’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, on Dec. 1 at Vancouver...