The UN Human Rights Office is under fire for sharing the names of Chinese government opponents, including Uighur activists, Tibetans and Hongkongers, who took part in UN activities, for a long period...

The death toll in a new tribal conflict in Sudan rose to 130 on Monday as clashes in West Darfur spread south...

More than 1,000 people have been arrested and troops have been deployed after three nights of rioting in cities throughout Tunisia...

The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood said Monday that the decision of authorities to confiscate the assets of 89 of the group's leaders and figures is a politically-motivated revenge against it...

Israel has been accused of racism by the Palestinian prime minister after excluding four million people living in the West Bank and Gaza from its Covid-19 vaccine drive...

A Russian court ruled Monday that opposition politician Alexey Navalny will be kept in custody until Feb...

It is commonly anticipated that any new American administration, whether a democratic or republican president, will embark on introducing a set of changes in the area of foreign policy...

Public schools will be divided according to the number of students and the class time will be reduced to 30 minutes starting from the next semester, the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Education Najwa Qubeilat told The Jordan Times on Sunday...

Baghdad was working to prevent further attacks on the Green Zone, Iraq’s Foreign Minister told AL Arabiya TV on Monday...

Amid a surge in coronavirus cases, a nurse in Brazil became the country's first person to be inoculated against COVID-19 after its health regulator gave emergency use authorization to two coronavirus vaccines...

China on Monday announced imposing sanctions on US officials over enhanced engagements with Taiwan. “China has decided to impose sanctions on related US officials who have behaved badly on Taiwan question,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chuny...

Outgoing US President Donald Trump reportedly is planning to issue about 100 pardons and commutations on Tuesday, his final full day in office...

South Korea's president on Monday rejected any early moves to offer a special pardon for his two incarcerated predecessors, convicted and jailed of corruption charges, local media reported...

Former FBI director James Comey has warned of “very serious” risk of violence at US President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, saying there are “armed and disturbed people” that need to be taken seriously...

Israel's military says its warplanes have carried out air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip. The aircraft “struck military targets” belonging to the Hamas resistance movement in Gaza, it said in a statement on Monday...

Multiple clashes were reported in the first protests of the year in France on Saturday as thousands rallied in the streets across the country to condemn the contentious “comprehensive security bill”, with the police arresting 75 demonstrators...

Egypt President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi will visit the Kingdom on Monday, upon an invitation from His Majesty King Abdullah, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported on Sunday...

Dutch police turned a water cannon on hundreds of anti-lockdown protestors who were taking part in a banned protest against the Dutch government and its tough coronavirus lockdown...

Jordan on Sunday condemned Israeli authorities’ approval of constructing 780 new settlement units in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to a Foreign Ministry statement...

Many doctors specializing in bacterial and infectious diseases expect a further jump in the number of people of infected with COVID-19 next week in Lebanon with hospitals exceeding their capacity...