Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday welcomed moves by US President Donald Trump to sanction any International Criminal Court officials who investigate US troops, as the tribunal examines alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. "This court is politicised and obsessed with...

FIFA will allow leagues to open their transfer windows before the current, delayed season has been completed as football recovers from the impact of the lengthy coronavirus shutdown, the game's world governing body announced on Thursday. FIFA has passed a series of temporary amendments to...

Oil prices tumbled around 7% on Thursday, fueled by renewed concerns about demand destruction as new cases of coronavirus tick up globally, while the United States saw another large build in crude inventories. U.S. coronavirus cases surpassed 2 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters...

 More than 50 people, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, died when a boat carrying migrants bound for Italy sank off Tunisia, a health official said Thursday in an updated toll. Another 17 bodies were recovered, raising the total to 52 since the authorities were alerted by fishermen near...

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday there will be no more shutdowns to stop the coronavirus pandemic, even as the outbreak flares in some states. "We can't shut down the economy. I think we've learned that if you shut down the economy, you're going to create more damage,"...

French President Emmanuel Macron does not plan to step down to prompt a fresh election, a move he reportedly told top party donors he was considering, his office said Thursday. The Figaro newspaper said Macron had made the shock announcement while speaking via videoconference to a handful...

The Libyan army on Thursday said it gained control of a main supply line used by warlord Khalifa Haftar's militias, days after it regained full control over the capital Tripoli from the forces loyal to the eastern-based renegade commander. An army statement said it now controlled the...

The assistant secretary general of Arab League on Thursday termed the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) as the legitimate authority in Libya. In an interview with an Egyptian channel, Hossam Zaki said the GNA is legitimate according to Skhirat Agreement of which Egypt was also...

Head of the Syrian regime, Bashar al-Assad, on Thursday removed Prime Minister Imad Khamis from his post, according to the regime's SANA news agency.  Al-Assad tasked Minister of Water Resources engineer Hussein Arnous with the mission of prime minister in addition to his post,"...

A local US consulate employee was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison in Turkey Thursday for "aiding an armed terror group" that Ankara blames for a failed 2016 coup. Metin Topuz, who worked as a liaison officer for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Istanbul, was arrested...

 More than 180,000 people have been infected in Iran's coronavirus outbreak since it first emerged nearly four months ago, an official said Thursday. As the figures were announced, President Hassan Rouhani called on Iranians to stick to guidelines aimed at stopping the spread of...

The Turkish army on Thursday has set up a new observation point in the southern countryside of Idlib province as Russia renews airstrikes on the last opposition stronghold. According to Zaman al-Wasl reporter, the new army unit was stationed in the Jabal al-Zawiya region, topping the...

Roger Federer is talking optimistically about returning to his "highest level" after knee surgery, but does tennis have to start adjusting to a future without the Swiss star? The 20-time Grand Slam winner announced on Wednesday that he would be sidelined until 2021 after his second...

The Lebanese pound sank to a record low on the black market Thursday despite the authorities' attempts to halt the plunge of the crisis-hit country's currency, money changers said. Lebanon is in the grips of its worst economic turmoil in decades, and holding talks with the International...

Queen Elizabeth II has kept up with technology throughout her reign, and on Thursday made her debut on a digital platform that has become ubiquitous during the coronavirus outbreak -- the video conference call. The 94-year-old monarch logged in from Windsor Castle, where she has been...

The European Human Rights Court (EHCR) ruled Thursday that a French criminal conviction against activists involved in a campaign to boycott products imported from Israel had no sufficient grounds and violated their freedom of expression. France's highest appeals' court in 2015 upheld...

Turkey Thursday rejected an Egyptian peace initiative in Libya after a series of military victories by forces loyal to Tripoli against strongman Khalifa Haftar and said it favored a binding ceasefire under UN auspices. "The call for ceasefire or the joint declaration, to us, is stillborn....

Yemeni qat seller Hamdan Hussein's customers still come daily to the crowded market to buy the addictive green stimulant, despite doctors' concerns that chewing in groups and spitting it could spread the new coronavirus. The vast majority of Yemeni men - and many women - chew the leaves for...

German airline Lufthansa said Thursday that it would have to slash 22,000 full-time jobs as it predicts a muted recovery in demand for travel following the coronavirus pandemic. "The recovery in demand in the air transport sector will be slow in the foreseeable future," the airline said....

The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the United States topped 2 million on Wednesday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. The pandemic has claimed the lives of more than 112,900 people in the United States, which leads the world in the number of confirmed...