New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was found guilty in sexually harassing multiple women both inside and out of government after months of investigation, the state's top law enforcement official reveaeled...

One year after the devastating explosions in Beirut, a UNICEF survey shows the needs of affected children and families remain acute, magnified by a collapsing economy, political instability and the COVID-19 pandemic...

A fire in a residential area of southern Turkey forced some people to evacuate as the country continues to battle massive wildfires that broke out last week on the country’s southern and southwestern coasts...

Evidence implicates senior Lebanese officials in the August 4, 2020 explosion in Beirut that killed 218 people, but systemic problems in Lebanon’s legal and political system are allowing them to avoid accountability, Human Rights Watch sa...

Since 2019, Israel and Iran have been engaged in a clandestine maritime showdown that has left commercial tankers belonging to the two countries damaged but not crippled...

ALBAWABA - The Palestinian residents of the occupied neighborhood of Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood continues to make headlines...

The US has approved the sale of an anti-ship missile system to India for $82 million, the State Department's Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement on Monday...

Authorities in Wuhan today announced they will test the entire city for Covid-19 after the first local infections were discovered in more than a year...

Donald Trump's Secretary of State has accused Joe Biden of being weak on Iran, calling the administration 'crazy' for continuing with discussions over the nuclear deal while Tehran attacked Western assets and allies...

Al BAWABA - As fires rage in Turkey, the Ankara government says they are slowly being brought under control...

 Lebanon is in morning. The 4th of August is being declared as a national day to mark the mass victims of the Beirut Port blast that shattered the city with 217 killed, over 7000 injured and over 300,000 people displaced...

A Belarusian activist living in Ukraine who helped his fellow countrymen flee the dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko has been found dead...

The Russian ambassador to the United States says Washington has called for the “expulsion” of 24 Russian diplomats by September...

Israel’s so-called Supreme Court has delayed a final verdict on the expulsion of four Palestinian families from their homes in the occupied East al-Quds neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, saying it has not sufficiently heard arguments from both sides o...

Ebrahim Raeisi is now officially the 8th president of the Islamic Republic of Iran after his mandate was endorsed by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei at a ceremony in Tehran, weeks after the ex-Judiciary chief won the co...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra agreed to support embattled Tunisian leader Kais Saeid in a bid to maintain stability in the country...

Wildfires have spread to many parts of the world, according to US space agency NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS)...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will name Swedish diplomat Hans Grundberg as his new Yemen envoy, according to diplomatic sources...

An Olympian balancing act has been going on in the government ministries of the world’s most oil-rich states over the past year or so...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stressed the importance of peace and stability in Tunisia as he held a telephone conversation with the country's President Kais Saied...