Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday he has tested positive for COVID-19 and that the symptoms are mild...

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Saturday the kingdom was optimistic that it would have “excellent relations” with the new US administration of President Joe Biden and that it would continue to talk with Washington regarding the Iran nuc...

The new Biden administration will work closely with Israel on regional security issues and build on the country's regional normalisation agreements with Arab countries, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan has told his Israeli counterp...

Abdel Latif El-Menawy had a unique perspective on the events of Jan. 25, 2011, and the tumultuous weeks that followed...

A special commission in the French National Assembly approved the “charter of republican values” which was announced earlier by the nation’s president as the fight against Islamist separatism...

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lashed out at Lebanon’s politicians over their protracted failure to form a new government...

While Turkey’s COVID-19 vaccination program has been under way since Jan. 13, there has been no official declaration about whether refugees, registered or unregistered, will be immunized...

On January 16, we marked 30 years since the outbreak of the first Gulf War, in which the international coalition attacked Saddam Hussein’s Iraq following his invasion of Kuwait...

China rescued 11 miners on Sunday, 14 days after they were trapped following an underground explosion in a gold mine in the eastern Shandong province, state media reported...

Rudy Giuliani has admitted that his associate emailed Trump campaign officials requesting he be paid $20,000 per day to dispute the results of the November election...

Kuwait's emir has reappointed Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah as prime minister, after the cabinet resigned last week in a standoff with parliament over its vote to question the premier, the state news agency KUNA reported on Sunday...

A British court on Friday sentenced four people to prison, including the ringleaders of a human trafficking operation, for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants who died after being smuggled into Britain in 2019...

Officials placed 10,000 residents under COVID-19 lockdown Saturday in a crowded district in Hong Kong...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expressed willingness Saturday to “turn the page” with the US now that Joe Biden is in charge in Washington...

A top United Nations official is demanding an end to sexual violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia that has resulted from fighting between government forces and local factions...

People in Sidon, south of Lebanon took to the streets Saturday to protest against the recent lockdown extension imposed by authorities in a bid to relieve the health care sector as coronavirus cases surge...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro could face charges in The Hague after being accused of ‘crimes against humanity’ by indigenous leaders over the destruction of the Amazon rainforest...

Many feel much better than they have felt in the last four years under the Trump administration, setting a mood which could count as a serious influence on the upcoming elections in Iran...

Representatives of rival Libyan camps on Friday began talks in Morocco as part of ongoing efforts to bring an end to nearly a decade of conflict...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Friday that Tunisia’s fiscal deficit could exceed 9% of GDP and urged the country to control energy subsides, transfers to state companies and wages, even as the government is tempted by big spending ...