Venezuela has reversed its decision to expel the EU’s ambassador to Caracas ordered by President Nicolas Maduro, a statement said on Thursday, ending a tit-for-tat diplomatic row. Maduro on Monday gave the EU’s Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa 72 hours to leave the country in response to European...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's scathing remarks on the situation in Libya have added a new dimension to the ongoing crisis. Last month, Sisi said that Libya's Sirte and al-Jufra airbases were a "red line" and he would arm Libyan tribes in his country to fight in the ranks of East...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez encouraged residents to leave their homes, as the Health Ministry reported 444 more COVID-19 infections on Thursday. The number of new cases has been rising every day since Tuesday, hitting 2,016 over the last seven days, the highest since June 11. A...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan donated 250,000 Turkish liras ($37,000) Thursday for a home building campaign in Idlib, Syria. The project is focused on rebuilding war-torn Idlib and was initiated by Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). Prior to the...

The family of a Palestinian man with autism who was fatally shot by Israeli police said Thursday that it took a month for authorities to confirm the existence of security-camera footage of the shooting, raising concerns that no one will be punished for killing their son. The existence of...

Lewis Hamilton has said "now is not the time to be silent" and explained why he criticised Formula One as he set out to rally the sport against racism. In a video released by Mercedes' parent company Daimler on the eve of this weekend's belated season-opening Austrian Grand Prix, the...

Manchester City will discover whether their appeal against a two-year ban from European competition has been successful the week of July 13, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Thursday. "The final decision will be made during the week of July 13," CAS secretary general Matthieu Reeb...

Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde said Thursday that Iran had agreed to compensate the families' of the foreign victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down outside Tehran in January. "We have signed an agreement of mutual understanding that we will now negotiate with Iran...

Oman's health minister said Thursday that the sultanate had witnessed a "scary" surge in COVID-19 cases that required boosting hospital capacity, especially for intensive care units. The country reported 1,361 new cases of the coronavirus Thursday with three deaths in the last 24 hours, to...

 Some 20 activist groups called on Facebook Thursday to stop the spread of "hate speech" targeting sexual minorities in the Middle East and North Africa through its platform. "We the signers below are concerned about the increase of hate speech against the LGBTQI+ community on...

An Algerian court on Thursday granted prominent opposition figure and leader of the anti-government protest movement Karim Tabbou release from jail. Tabbou’s lawyer, Abdelghani Badi, said in a Facebook post that the Algiers court granted his request for the release of his client, who is...

Oil prices rose on Thursday as a sharp drop in oil stockpiles outweighed concerns that a spike in U.S. coronavirus infections and revived lockdown measures in California could stall a recovery in fuel demand. Brent crude LCOc1 futures were up 21 cents or 0.5% at $42.24 a barrel by 1114 GMT,...

 A former UN envoy to Libya has accused the Security Council of "hypocrisy" and of undermining his efforts to bring peace to the war-torn North African country. In a podcast interview aired Tuesday, Ghassan Salame said the majority of the UN Security Council supported the military...

Forty-nine faceless figures stand on the lawn outside a German courthouse, facing the windows of a courtroom behind which two suspected members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s security services are standing trial for torture and sexual assault. The figures, part of an art installation...

The Saudi-led military coalition Thursday confirmed it has launched a major operation against Yemen's Huthis and warned it would target the rebel leadership following missile and drone attacks on the kingdom. Residents of rebel-held capital Sanaa told AFP they heard loud explosions and saw...

Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas pledged unity against Israel's West Bank annexation plans in a rare joint conference Thursday, as signs emerged of a rift between Israel and Washington over the project. The relationship between Fatah, which controls the Ramallah-based Palestinian...

Iran's nuclear body said an accident had taken place Thursday at a construction site in a nuclear complex without causing casualties, state news agency IRNA reported. "An accident occurred on Thursday morning and damaged a warehouse under construction in open space at the Natanz site" in...

 Criticized for inaction, President Donald Trump and top officials stepped up their defense of the administration's response to intelligence assessments that Russia offered bounties for killing US troops in Afghanistan. Trump's national security adviser said he had prepared a list of...

Russia no longer plays the most important role in managing Syria’s internal affairs. While Russia still has the upper hand internationally, it is slowly losing its foot and its place in the internal Syrian Rubik Cube.    During the past few days, official information was...

Save the Children organization has recently delegated the Syrian pioneer girl Rasha Hussein as one of its ambassadors. As one of her first tasks, Hussein, 17, a refugee teenager living in the Netherlands, has recently met the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs and presidency...