Beijing:  China on Monday scrapped the annual press conference of its Premier, a decades-long scripted event watched live by the people for any new policy formulations for the world's second-largest...

Moscow:  Moscow summoned Germany's ambassador to Russia's foreign ministry on Monday, local media reported, days after the release of an audio recording on social media purporting to show German officers...

Tel Aviv (Israel): A top Israeli Cabinet minister headed to Washington on Sunday for talks with US officials, sparking a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an Israeli...

Dubai: A ship attacked by Yemen's Houthi rebels has sunk in the Red Sea after days of taking on water, officials said Saturday, the first vessel to be fully destroyed...

Sidon (Lebanon):  An Israeli drone strike hit a car in south Lebanon Saturday morning, killing three Hezbollah members, state media and officials said. Another four Hezbollah members were killed in...

Rafah (Gaza Strip):  The head of a Gaza City hospital that treated some of the Palestinians wounded in the bloodshed surrounding an aid convoy said on Friday that more than...

Wellington:  The almost comical run out of Kane Williamson for a second-ball duck was one of many setbacks suffered by New Zealand on the second day of the first test...

Dubai:  Iran on Friday held the country's first parliamentary election since the mass 2022 protests over mandatory hijab laws after the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, with questions...

London: A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a town in northern England with a big Muslim minority following a contest that was mired in chaos...

Berlin:  Four people were killed in shootings in northern Germany, police and prosecutors said Friday, and the suspect is a soldier who turned himself in. The four victims, including a...