An unprecedented surge of 270,000 Rohingya has sought refuge in Bangladesh over the past two weeks, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday, as it announced a dramatic jump in the total as new pockets of people fleeing violence in Myanmar are found. A rights group said satellite images...

Hurricane Irma menaced Cuba and the Bahamas on Friday as it drove toward Florida after lashing the Caribbean with devastating winds and torrential rain, killing 19 people and leaving a swathe of catastrophic destruction. Florida Governor Rick Scott issued a stark warning to residents to...

Philippe Coutinho will be left out of Liverpool's squad for Saturday's Premier League trip to Manchester City, with manager Juergen Klopp saying the Brazilian needs training time to make up for his disrupted pre-season.Coutinho, who has not played for Liverpool so far this season due a back...

China’s regulator on Friday published draft rules that would restrict financing businesses using stocks as collateral. The draft rules on the so-called stock pledged repurchase business, published by the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, will curb leverage and are aimed at reducing...

The British government should stop dreaming about having its own way in Brexit negotiations and start to get more realistic about the likely outcome of divorce talks with the European Union, said Jim O‘Neill, a former Goldman Sachs economist. Prime Minister Theresa May, who quietly...

The dollar remained mired near its lowest levels since early 2015 as European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s suggestion that the ECB may begin tapering its massive stimulus program this autumn continued to underpin the euro. Meanwhile expectations of another interest rate hike in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of people rallied in the border town of Jarablus, demanding Assad overthrow and voicing support to oppressed Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, local reporter said on Friday.   The protesters of the FSA-held town near Turkey have denounced statement issued...

The eye of Hurricane Irma grazed the Turks and Caicos Islands on Thursday, rattling buildings after it smashed a string of Caribbean islands as one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, killing 14 people on its way to Florida. With winds of around 185 miles per hour (290 km...

An earthquake of magnitude 8.1 struck off the southern coast of Mexico late on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, killing at least five people, triggering small tsunami waves and damaging some buildings. The quake was apparently stronger than a devastating 1985 tremor...

A Russian air strike has killed around 40 Islamic State fighters, including four senior commanders, near the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, Russia’s defense ministry said on Friday. The strike, carried out by Su-34 fighter-bombers and Su-35 fighters, came after an intelligence...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- “I do not want to work, I want to study,” the words of Mohammed a Syrian child speaking on one of the Turkish television channels ignited the spark for an initiative to help Syrian children to go back to school. The initiative comes as many Syrian families face difficult...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Documents issued by the Syrian Ministry of Finance were leaked showing that the Ministry issued decisions to confiscate the movable and immovable property of opposition figures and their families from various Syrian cities. Recently, Vivan Roche, a media activist,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Humanitarian aid has reached residents of the besieged Yarmouk camp south of Damascus on Thursday for the first time in five months, local reporter said.   A convoy of 6 vehicles loaded with food and medicine entered into the neighbourhood of...

In this report, Zaman Al Wasl TV highlights the impressive work by Syria’s leading Civil Defense group in southern Daraa province since the cessation of hostilities agreement went into effect last July. Hundreds of unexploded cluster bombs were removed from Daraa in...

Thousands of Togolese marched for a second day on Thursday against President Faure Gnassingbe’s 50-year family dynasty despite a near blackout in communications. The scale of this week’s protests, which the opposition says were attended by hundreds of thousands of people, represents...

Egypt has blocked the website of Human Rights Watch just one day after the organization released a report on systematic torture in the country’s jails. Reuters attempted to access the website late on Thursday but was unsuccessful. “Egyptian authorities keep insisting that any...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would be willing to step in and mediate the worst dispute in decades among the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states and Qatar, and said that he thinks a deal could come quickly. “If I can help mediate between Qatar and, in particular, the UAE and...

Search engine Google said on Thursday it had seen no evidence on its advertising platforms of the kind of suspected Russian propaganda campaign that Facebook Inc (FB.O) says appeared on its network before and after last year’s U.S. presidential election. “We’re always monitoring for...

 The few bullet-marked schools Islamic State did not flatten or booby trap around its former Syrian stronghold of Raqqa are buzzing for the first time in years with the sound of children learning. In the village of Hazima, north of Raqqa, teachers gave ad-hoc alphabet lessons to...

A Turkish court has ordered a German citizen who was detained in southern Turkey last week to be released but banned him from leaving the country, the news agency Dogan reported on Thursday. The released man and his German partner were detained while on holiday in Antalya, a popular...