A 3.5 metres tall puppet of a little girl is due to make the 8,000 kilometre journey from the Syrian-Turkish border to the UK in an effort to highlight the plight of child refugees. Little Amal, as she has been named, will set off in April and is expected to arrive in the UK in July as part...

Turkey’s foreign minister on Friday said France censoring a cartoon of its Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer is an example of "hypocrisy" and "double standard". “It is a good example of hypocrisy and double standard,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told a news conference following the informal...

The Kremlin’s spokesman denied a report in the British tabloid The Sun that said Russian President Vladimir Putin will resign early next year due to health problems. In response to a question about the article, Dmitry Peskov said that Putin had no plans to resign. “No,” Peskov said. “He...

Government failures to prepare for Brexit mean the UK faces "significant disruption" when it is fully free of the European Union on January 1, an official watchdog said Friday. The coronavirus pandemic will add to the strain on freight, farming and other economic sectors, especially in...

The Libyan army on Friday called for a withdrawal of warlord Khalifa Haftar’s forces before a meeting of the Joint Military Commission in the city of Sirte in the next few days. “The supporting forces of the Sirte and al-Jufra operations [of the Libyan army] welcome holding the Joint...

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took a narrow lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground state of Georgia for the first time early Friday, putting the White House within his reach as it and other undecided states continue to count ballots. Biden has a 253 to 214 lead...

The U.S. mission in Geneva urged World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday to invite Taiwan to a major meeting the body is hosting next week expected to focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. “We encourage the WHO to expand its efforts to offer Taiwan increased...

Facebook FB.O on Friday said it has dismantled seven separate networks of fake accounts and pages on its platform that were active in Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Myanmar, Georgia, and Ukraine due to "coordinated inauthentic behaviour". The social media platform announced it...

d separatist forces of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen of committing human rights violations in the Socotra Archipelago. The SAM Organization for Rights and Liberties, a Geneva-based NGO, said in a Thursday statement: "Southern Transitional Council militia is violating...

Three civilians were killed as Azerbaijani forces shelled the main city of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region Friday, Armenia said, following weeks of fighting over the mountainous province. Defense ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan published photos showing rescue workers in...

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper has prepared a letter of resignation, NBC News reported Thursday, as America awaits the results of its presidential elections.  The American news outlet cited three current defense officials as saying that Esper prepared the letter "because he is one of...

Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona is to remain in hospital for several more days to undergo treatment following surgery to remove a blood clot on the brain, his doctor said Thursday. "We saw that in the postoperative phase Diego had episodes of confusion," Leopoldo Luque told...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was sworn in for a second term Friday, as final election results showed her landslide victory was even bigger than previously thought. The charismatic leader and her ministers made their oaths of office in English and Maori during a ceremony at...

India’s coronavirus cases Friday topped the 8.4 million mark after the country found 47,638 new infections in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said. The country recorded 670 virus-linked deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 124,985. According to the ministry, there...

Election officials in several states said Thursday they are worried about the safety of their staffs amid a stream of threats and gatherings of angry protesters outside their doors, drawn by President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of widespread fraud in the race for the White House. “I...

U.S. voters went to the polls starkly divided on how they see President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. But in places where the virus is most rampant now, Trump enjoyed enormous support. An Associated Press analysis reveals that in 376 counties with the highest number of...

President Donald Trump spent a second day in the White House on Thursday stewing over election results that suggested a path to victory was slipping from his grasp, even as his campaign projected confidence. Trump had not been seen in public since his premature declaration of victory in...

Pro-Syrian regime media outlets circulated rumors that the United Arab Emirates has banned issuing tourist visas to Syrians, which sparked confusion among the lack of clarification or any official announcements from the UAE. Loyalist media sites turned to Emirati travel agencies for...

Democrat Joe Biden inched nearer to victory on Thursday over Donald Trump in an exceedingly close U.S. election that hinged on razor-thin margins in a handful of states, while the Republican president launched a flurry of lawsuits hoping to slow down his opponent. Tensions rose in some...

Rafael Nadal battled past Australian Jordan Thompson in straight sets to reach the Paris Masters quarter-finals on Thursday, as Diego Schwartzman moved within one win of securing an ATP Tour Finals debut. Top seed Nadal got the better of Thompson 6-1, 7-6 (7/3) to set up a last-eight clash...