Power was gradually being restored to major cities across Pakistan Sunday after it was hit by a massive electricity blackout, officials said. The electricity distribution system in the nation of more than 210 million people is a complex and delicate web, and a problem in one section of the...

Two men accused of joining a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters that stormed the nation’s Capitol — one wearing a horned, fur hat and the other carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern — were charged Saturday, the latest arrests in Wednesday’s mayhem that left five people dead....

(Eqtsad)-  From his makeshift camp in northern Syria, Taha Zeid has been working in cryptocurrency trading for a while after learning how to trade it from specialized platforms. Zeid, 28, couldn't take advantage of Bitcoin's recent jumps but his trading is depending on other...

Iraq voiced surprise Saturday after the US Treasury imposed "unacceptable" sanctions against Faleh Fayyadh, leader of the state-sponsored Hashed al-Shaabi, a powerful pro-Iranian paramilitary network. Fayyadh is one of the most senior Iraqi state officials to be placed on the US...

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, have received their COVID-19 vaccinations, royal officials said Saturday. Buckingham Palace officials said in a statement that the 94-year-old monarch and Philip, 99, received their jabs Saturday, joining some 1.5 million...

Albanian military and police ships saved 50 Syrian refugees trapped by bad weather as they tried to reach Italy by boat, police and local media reported Saturday. A police statement said that, in collaboration with Italy’s financial police, on Friday evening they found the packed...

MADRID (AP) — A persistent blizzard has blanketed large parts of Spain with 50-year record levels of snow, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or in train stations and airports that had suspended all services as the snow kept falling on Saturday. The bodies of...

An Indonesian passenger aircraft with 62 people on board crashed into the sea after taking off from the capital Jakarta, authorities said Saturday. Sriwijaya Air flight SJY 182 had 50 passengers on board, including 10 children, plus 12 crew members, said the country’s Transportation...

Daesh fighters killed at least seven regime loyalists in eastern Syria on Saturday, the latest in a series of deadly extremist attacks, a Britain-based war monitor reported. “Seven members of the National Defense Forces, a pro-regime militia, were killed in clashes with an IS sleeper...

An Indonesian passenger aircraft with 62 people on board lost contact with air traffic controllers on Saturday after taking off from the capital Jakarta. The Sriwijaya Air flight SJY 182 flying from Jakarta to Pontianak, the capital of the province of West Kalimantan, lost contact at...

Japan Saturday rejected a landmark ruling on wartime "comfort women" by South Korea, calling on Seoul to "take measures to correct violations of international law." In a phone call with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung Wha, his Japanese counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi rejected...

An Israeli aircraft on Saturday has dropped warning leaflets to one of senior Syrian army commanders over his ties withes Lebanese Hezbollah militias and pro-Iran factions in southern Daraa province The leaflets carried a major threat to Brig. Gen Basil Abu...

The East African nations of Sudan and Eritrea on Friday agreed to continue cooperation on international and regional issues. According to the official Sudanese News Agency (SUNA), Foreign Minister Omer Gamar-Eddin, upon returning from Eritrea, said talks with Eritrean President Afewerki...

Turkish forces neutralized two more YPG militia in northern Syria, the Defense Ministry said on Saturday. Commandos neutralized the terrorists as part of continuing efforts to prevent terrorist infiltration into the Operation Peace Spring area, the ministry said on Twitter....

BRUSSELS (AP) — The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization dropped to its lowest level in seven years in 2020, the EU border and coast guard agency Frontex said Friday. Frontex said it detected around 124,000 “illegal border crossings” last year, a...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's steadfast grip on Republicans in Washington is beginning to crumble, leaving him more politically isolated than at any other point in his turbulent administration. After riling up a crowd that later staged a violent siege of the U.S. Capitol, Trump...

Twitter banned President Donald Trump's account Friday, citing “the risk of further incitement of violence.” The social platform has been under growing pressure to take further action against Trump following Wednesday's deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Twitter initially...

A Palestinian political leader jailed for the past 18 years was released from an Israeli prison on Thursday night. Hassan Fatafta, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was arrested in 2003 over accusations that he was planning assassinations of Israelis....

The UAE will open its land, air and sea borders with Qatar as of Saturday, an official said on Friday. In a statement cited by the UAE state-run WAM news agency, Khalid Abdullah Belhoul, undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry, said his country will end all measures taken against Qatar...

At least seven Palestinians were injured and dozens of others suffered suffocation in the occupied West Bank on Friday as the Israeli army used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters, eyewitnesses said. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, the eyewitnesses said dozens of Palestinians...