Dubai:  This was supposed to be Saudi Arabia's year to shine as host of the prestigious G20 gathering of world leaders. The event would have seen Crown Prince Mohammed bin...

Amman: Tens of thousands more children younger than 5 could die in the next six months in the Middle East and North Africa because of the knock-on effects of the...

Kabul:  Two separate attacks in Afghanistan have killed at least 18 people amid a wave of violence across the country, local Afghan officials said on Saturday. A local police chief...

Vatican City:  Pope Francis said on Saturday that the coronavirus pandemic has challenged many assumptions. In a message for the 4th World Day of the Poor, which will be celebrated...

Kabul:  A bomb exploded Friday inside a mosque in west Kabul killing at least four people, including the prayer leader, and wounding an unknown number of others, an Afghan government...

Paris: The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that France violated the freedom of expression of pro-Palestinian activists who were convicted for campaigning against Israeli goods. The court ordered...

Richmond (US):  Protesters tore down a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis along Richmond, Virginia's famed Monument Avenue on Wednesday night. The statue in the former capital of the Confederacy...

Paris: The virus crisis has triggered the worst global recession in nearly a century -- and the pain is not over yet even if there is no second wave of...

Jerusalem:  Germany's foreign minister on Wednesday warned Israel that its plan to begin annexing parts of the West Bank would violate international law, but he declined to say how Germany...

Washington:  Dr Anthony Fauci, the US government's top infectious-disease expert, says the World Health Organization had to backtrack on its statement about asymptomatic spread of the coronavirus being rare because...