A Peruvian court on Wednesday annulled ex-president Alberto Fujimori's pardon for crimes against humanity and ordered the 80-year-old's immediate arrest, officials said. The South American country's justice department said in a statement that the Supreme Court had "issued the arrest and...

Sudan summoned the European Union ambassador to Khartoum on Wednesday to protest against an EU-organised meeting of journalists that called for strengthening of press freedoms in the African country. The meeting held on Tuesday by the EU at its office in Khartoum was attended by...

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Sergei Skripal, a Russian former double agent poisoned in Britain, was a scumbag who betrayed Russia. Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found slumped on a public bench in the English city of Salisbury in March. Britain says they were poisoned...

Russia has completed the delivery of an S-300 surface-to-air missile system to the Syrian military as part of new security measures following the downing of a Russian plane last month. Russian Defence Minister Sergi Shoigu on Tuesday said at a meeting of the country's security council...

"Talk of sanctions on Iran reemerged, and my essential medicine was no longer available," said Masoud Mir who suffers from thalassaemia, a genetic blood disease common in Iran. Mir, 36, is one of many patients in the Islamic Republic who not only have to deal with their disability, but...

An elite group of North Korean hackers has been identified as the source of a wave of cyberattacks on global banks that has netted "hundreds of millions" of dollars, security researchers said Wednesday. A report by the cybersecurity firm FireEye said the newly identified group dubbed APT38...

Some 1,600 survivors from Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami were whisked to safety by a Navy warship Wednesday, providing much-needed relief for a lucky few after five days marked by shortages and grief. The KRI Makassar docked at the devastated city of Palu in central Sulawesi to take...

Russian senators on Wednesday approved a deeply controversial bill to raise the state pension age as the Kremlin indicated President Vladimir Putin could sign it into law soon. The upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, passed the bill that had sparked rare street protests...

French career criminal Redoine Faïd, who made a Hollywood-esque helicopter jailbreak in July, was arrested in the Oise region north of Paris early Wednesday, according to French officials. A seasoned armed robber, nicknamed the "jailbreak king", Faïd was apprehended in the northern...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes intensified Tuesday between the US-backed forces and Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Deir Ezzor province as the Kurdish-led fighters press to uproot the militants from their last pockets near the Iraqi border, local activists said.  The fighting took place in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahmed Hassan, pseudonym, has recently left the jails of the Syrian regime after seven years of arbitrary detention due to his participation in the peaceful demonstrations intended to overthrow Bashar Assad in March 2011. Hassan told Zaman al-Wasl a part of what he saw and...

The Pentagon says the U.S. is offering to put its cyber-warfare capabilities to use on behalf of its NATO allies. Senior Pentagon official Katie Wheelbarger says the U.S. would conduct offensive or defensive cyber operations if asked to do so by its allies. The principal deputy...

The life of Nasir Musbih -- a 12-year-old Palestinian martyred by Israeli troops Friday during the ‘Great March of Return’ demonstrations -- is like a summary of the region he lived in. Born in Gaza in 2006, a year before Israel imposed a land, air and sea blockade on the area, his brief...

At least seven Palestinians were injured Tuesday when the Israeli army fired on peaceful demonstrators in Gaza. The victims were wounded by live bullets, according to information gathered from a local hospital. Four of them were injured in the eastern part of Jabalia camp while...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will head to Pyongyang to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the State Department confirmed Tuesday. The trip will be a part of a larger tour for the diplomat who is also scheduled to visit South Korea, Japan and China. State Department...

Friends and relatives of Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran journalist from Saudi Arabia who has recently become a vocal critic of the kingdom’s leadership, said they were worried about his safety on Tuesday after losing contact with him during his visit to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul....

Turkey's National Defense Ministry on Tuesday evening said the first batch of U.S. army personnel have arrived in Turkey to join training for a joint patrol activity in Manbij, Syria. A statement on the ministry's official website said efforts to start the training are ongoing....

Moderate Kurdish candidate Barham Saleh swept to the post of president of Iraq Tuesday evening in a parliamentary vote pitting Kurdish heavyweights against each other for the first time following an ill-fated independence referendum. Saleh routed his main rival Fuad Hussein with 219...

Online retail giant Amazon announced Tuesday it would raise its starting wage for US workers to $15 an hour, amid long-standing criticism of low pay, and advocate for a higher minimum wage nationwide. The pay raise will apply to 250,000 employees, starting November 1, and to the more...

A Syrian asylum seeker stuck in transit in Kuala Lumpur airport since March has been arrested by the Malaysian authorities who said he will be deported to his home country. Hassan al-Kontar, 36, attracted world attention when he started posting videos of his life stranded at KLIA2, the...