The king of Saudi Arabia, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, has been admitted to the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi state media reported on Sunday May 8, 2022...

Egypt’s military thwarted on Saturday an attack by an extremist group on a water-raising point east of the Suez Canal, according to the spokesperson for the Egyptian Armed Forces...

From Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa  "Millions of children continue to live in fear, need and uncertainty inside Syria and the neighbouring countries...

In an official ceremony at his official residence, French President Emmanuel Macron was inaugurated on Saturday afternoon for a second five-year term...

The death toll from a gas explosion at a Cuban hotel has risen to 32, authorities said on Sunday. Eighty people, including 10 in critical condition, were wounded and rescue operations were underway after the blast hit Saragota Hotel in the capital H...

Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Saturday that "all women, children and the elderly have been evacuated" from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol...

Italy has seized a $700 million superyacht named Scheherazade that has allegedly been tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin...

President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday declared a state of emergency once again as the nationwide protests against economic woes continued to hit the island nation...

Former US President Donald Trump proposed bombing cartel positions and "drug labs" in Mexico, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper reportedly says in a forthcoming memoir...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday spoke via video conference with the UK-based think tank Chatham House and accused Moscow of torturing the civilian population of Ukraine's southeastern Mariupol city but also insisted that not all bri...

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...