A Philippines bid to have Cleveland Cavaliers shooting guard Jordan Clarkson play for their Asian Games team has been dashed after the National Basketball Association refused to release him. Clarkson, who appeared off the bench in two 2018 NBA finals games against repeat champions...

Turkey's central bank on Monday announced it was ready to take "all necessary measures" to ensure financial stability after the collapse of the lira, promising to provide banks with liquidity. "The central bank will closely monitor the market depth and price formations, and take all...

Medics tried to kick open a jammed ambulance door while a badly hurt Chinese footballer lay prone on the pitch for several minutes, fighting for breath. Italian legend Fabio Cannavaro, coach of Chinese Super League (CSL) champions Guangzhou Evergrande, was left angered and fans and...

India's media on Monday lashed out at "abysmal batting" that led to a crushing innings defeat by England in the second Test at Lord's. Mail Today called India's performance a "humiliating defeat" while The Hindu newspaper's headline said "Another abysmal batting display sends India to its...

Barcelona battled back to defeat Sevilla 2-1 and win the Spanish Supercup on Sunday with French World Cup winner Ousmane Dembele hitting a sensational winner to help give Lionel Messi a winning start as captain. It was Barcelona's 13th Supercup and sixth in the last nine seasons....

Rafael Nadal held off a late surge from birthday boy Stefanos Tsitsipas to earn a 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) victory in the final of the Toronto Masters on Sunday. Success in just under one and three-quarter hours handed the 32-year-old Spaniard a record extending 33rd trophy at the elite Masters level...

Turkey has drafted an action plan and its institutions will start taking necessary steps Monday to ease financial markets’ concerns, Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said Sunday, after the lira plunged last week. In an interview with Hurriyet newspaper, Albayrak said a plan has been prepared for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A kidnapped field doctor in northwestern Syria has been freed after family paid $100,000 ransom, local sources said Sunday.   Dr. Khalil al-Agha, Head of Health Directorate in opposition-held areas in coastal region and one of the medics who joined the...

Egyptian authorities have arrested six suspected members of a "terrorist cell" behind a failed suicide attack on a church in the outskirts of Cairo, the interior ministry said Sunday. A suicide bomber attempted to attack the Virgin Lady Church in the Shobra al-Kheima district on Saturday but...

A large fire broke out Sunday on the Greek island of Evia near Athens, the government said, with two villages evacuated, less than a month after over 90 people died in Greece's worst-ever wildfire. "The prime minister is in close contact with the interior minister over the large fire in...

Germany’s economy minister criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to impose additional tariffs on Turkey, local media reported Sunday. "This trade war slows down and destroys economic growth and produces new uncertainties," Peter Altmaier said according to Germany’s Bild am...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has cancelled a visit to Iran, his press office said Sunday, as the premier came under strong Iranian criticism over his stand on renewed U.S. sanctions against Tehran. Abadi will still go ahead with a planned visit to Turkey on Tuesday but has...

Iran's judiciary said Sunday that 67 people have been arrested in recent weeks as part of a corruption crackdown approved by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. More than 100 government employees have also been barred from leaving the country, spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie said,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday demanded a "total" ceasefire from Gaza's Hamas rulers in his first public comments on another deadly flare-up between the two sides. There have been efforts by U.N. officials and Egypt to secure a long-term truce between Israel and Hamas,...

Egyptian security forces have killed "terrorists" in a shootout in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, where Daesh (ISIS) is active, an interior ministry source said Sunday. The Egyptian army has since February been conducting a major operation focused on Sinai to wipe out jihadists from...

The United States urged Britain Sunday to ditch its support for a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and instead join forces with Washington to counter the global threat it says Tehran poses. Despite opposition from European allies, U.S. President Trump in May pulled the United States out of a...

 An explosion of suspected US-led airstrikes at a weapons depot in northern Idlib province killed at least 39 civilians, including 12 children, on Sunday, a war monitor and activists said. Sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the US strikes had targeted depot belongs to the former al-Qaeda...

Thousands of protesters rallied in Tel Aviv Saturday against Israel's new law declaring it the nation-state of the Jewish people, legislation that has angered the country's Arab minority and drawn criticism abroad. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended the law, which says only Jews...

NASA Sunday blasted off a $1.5 billion spacecraft toward the Sun on a historic mission to protect the Earth by unveiling the mysteries of dangerous solar storms. "Three, two, one, and liftoff!" said a NASA commentator as the Parker Solar Probe lit up the dark night sky aboard a Delta...

The fight for the embattled eastern Afghan city of Ghazni entered its third day as Taliban militants and security forces engaged in heavy clashes Sunday, after Kabul vowed the city was firmly under government control. An AFP reporter on the ground said Taliban fighters continued to roam...