Israeli authorities said Tuesday they have arrested a Palestinian employee in Gaza of Turkey's international aid agency TIKA on accusations of diverting its project funds to Hamas. It was the third...
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today voting 'yes' in next month's referendum on expanding his powers was the best response to a 'fascist and cruel' Europe. He told a rally in the...
Israel's military chief said on Tuesday that Hezbollah's military commander in Syria, reported dead last year, was killed by members of his own Lebanese Shiite group. Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot,...
France's ambassador to the United Nations warned Tuesday that drastic cuts to the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo would be tantamount to "playing with fire" as the country...
At least five people were killed when a vehicle laden with explosives blew up in Mogadishu on Tuesday, a local official said, the latest attack in the troubled Somali capital. The blast occurred at a...
Chinese President Xi Jinping called Tuesday for peace between Israel and an independent Palestine "as soon as possible" during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, state media...
Two of India's holiest but most polluted rivers have been recognised as a "legal person" in a landmark court ruling that could see the sacred waterways restored to health. The decision to bestow...
President Trump’s daughter Ivanka will get an office in the White House, an administration official has said. But she will not have an official title or salary when she works in the West Wing –...
A former guerrilla fighter has won East Timor's presidential election in just one round, an early count indicated Tuesday, in a sign of growing stability for Asia's youngest nation. With most ballots...
The row between Seoul and Beijing over the deployment of a US missile defence system has seen China overtake even former coloniser Japan in the ranking of South Koreans' least favoured countries, a...
A car bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing at least 23 people and wounding 45 others in a mainly Shia district in southwestern Baghdad. The attack - as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi...
President Donald Trump said the operation against the Islamic State group in Mosul is "moving along," as he hosted Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the White House on Monday. In a meeting on...
US President Donald Trump sees Mahmud Abbas as a "strategic partner" and the Palestinian leader wants to engage with him to work towards a two-state solution, a senior Palestinian official said...
A senior army officer said Monday that Israel had fired its Arrow missile at a Syrian rocket which posed a "ballistic threat" during clashes over the weekend. Israeli warplanes struck several targets...
Prime Minister Theresa May is to officially notify the European Union next Wednesday that the UK is leaving. Downing Street said she would write a letter to the European Council, adding that it...
Prime Minister Theresa May is to officially notify the European Union next Wednesday that the UK is leaving. The move, nine months after people voted 51.9% to 48.1% in a referendum, will kick start...
Pakistan on Monday ordered the border with Afghanistan to be reopened "immediately", a month after it was closed amid soaring tensions as Islamabad and Kabul accused one another of providing safe...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's approval rating has fallen sharply, an opinion poll showed Monday, as scandals erode public confidence in a government now in its fifth year. Abe took power in...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe issued a staunch joint defence of free trade Sunday, as the United States pushes towards greater protectionism. "We want free and...
Mahmud Abbas will meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Monday with ties strained between them and ahead of the Palestinian leader's talks with Donald Trump in Washington. The...
