The Israeli prime minister accepted the Russian president's apology over Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks on Jews, according to the Israeli government on Thursday...

U.N. human rights experts said Thursday they are alarmed that nearly 12.8 million people have been displaced in Ukraine since Russia launched its war in late February, most of whom have not left the country...

The COVID-19 pandemic killed 13.3 to 16.6 million people in 2020 and 2021, the WHO estimated Thursday -- up to triple the number of deaths attributed directly to the disease...

One was killed and more than 5,000 Iraqis suffered respiratory ailments on Thursday due to a sandstorm, the seventh to hit the country in the past month, state media said...

An Egyptian water expert at Cairo University, Abbas Sharaqy accused the Ethiopian government of prolonging the dam crisis to divert the attention of Ethiopians from internal crises...

Turkish and Armenian envoys for the normalisation of ties between the two countries have reaffirmed their goal of “achieving full normalisation...

Australia imposed sanctions against 110 Russians, mostly politicians, on Wednesday over their country's war in Ukraine...

Nigeria’s president and the UN Secretary-General discussed the fight against terrorism Wednesday Muhammadu Buhari and Antonio Guterres held a closed-door meeting at the Aso Rock Palace in the capital Abuja...

The Kremlin on Thursday accused the West of preventing a "quick" end to Russia's military campaign in Ukraine by supplying weapons to the pro-Western country...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the State Department announced...

Millions of Britons are set to cast their votes in local elections across the UK today as polling stations opened bright and early...

A leaked Supreme Court opinion draft showing that the highest court in the United States is primed to overturn the right to abortion has sparked demonstrations across the country and sent pro-abortion politicians into a frenzy...

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned the Tel Aviv regime against crossing “red lines” at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of Al-Quds, as Israeli military forces and settlers press ahead with their acts of aggre...

On May 15, Lebanon will go to the polls for the first time since it sank into one of the world’s worst economic crises after the 2019 uprising and the Beirut port explosion...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Russia’s foreign minister Wednesday to apologize for his “anti-Semitic lies” following the latter’s claim that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood...

The head of the European Union on Wednesday proposed to member states a complete ban on Russian oil as part of the bloc's sixth sanctions package to be levied against Russia over its war in Ukraine...

Ahmad Reza Jalali, an Iranian-Swedish national sentenced to death for allegedly spying on behalf of Israel in Iran, will be executed by May 21, local media said Wednesday...

Some 193 million people experienced “acute food insecurity” last year, a joint report by the EU and UN said on Wednesday, calling it a record figure and warning that the war in Ukraine will add to a “perfect storm” to make the hunger crisis e...

Missile strikes damaged three electric substations in Ukraine’s Lviv, the city’s mayor said on Tuesday...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has commended Ukraine's resistance against Russia and promised to supply another £300 million in military aid to the former Soviet republic...