Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Monday that he would be ready to hold snap parliamentary elections if the opposition agrees to certain conditions, the Interfax news agency reported.
Two UN human rights experts called Monday for an international investigation into the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and demanded his "immediate release" from a Russian penal colony.
A Paris court Monday found French former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling and sentenced him to one year in prison and a two-year suspended sentence.
More than 400 European parliamentarians have urged leaders to use Joe Biden's new presidency as an opportunity to stop what they term Israel's "de-facto annexation" of the occupied West Bank.
President Joe Biden expressed optimism on Tuesday that most U.S. schools would be open by late spring and vowed to continue accelerating the country's...
Germany is warning Iran against blocking inspections by the UN
Bulgarian customs officials confiscated more than 400 kilograms (880 pounds) of heroin from a ship transporting goods from Iran, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Men armed with knives, machetes and pick-axes killed 10 people in an overnight attack on a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a witness and a...
Life in Lebanon started to return to a semblance of normalcy Monday as authorities lifted more coronavirus restrictions despite warnings.
The Chinese government has decided to donate 50,000 doses of their homemade Sinopharm vaccine to Lebanon to help with the country’s battle against the...
A UN humanitarian agency Sunday warned that more than 16 million people in Yemen would go hungry this year, with already some half a million people in the...
A fire in a camp housing families of members of the Islamic State group killed three children and injured 15 others in northeast Syria, the U.N. children’s...
The Taliban on Tuesday urged the US to honor a landmark withdrawal deal under which all foreign troops would exit Afghanistan in the coming months, even as...
ALGIERS: Hundreds of Algerians rallied Tuesday to mark some of the first Hirak protests, two years into the mass movement which swept former strongman...
ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday Turkey will expand its cross-border operations against Kurdish militants after 13 captured Turks were killed...
BEIJING: China's ambassador to Myanmar said on Tuesday the current political situation was "absolutely not what China wants to see" and dismissed social media...
PARIS: France will intensify its efforts to help "decapitate" Qaeda-linked groups in the Sahel, President Emmanuel Macron told regional leaders via video...
DAKAR: Chad has deployed 1,200 troops to help tackle Islamist militants who have occupied swathes of territory in the West Africa Sahel region, a statement...
Russia has extended a ban on flights to and from Britain until the end of March 16 due to a new variant of the coronavirus first detected in the UK, Russia's...
The Kremlin denied Tuesday that Russian hackers were behind cyberattacks on French companies, after Paris said it had registered attacks similar to those...
BENGALURU: India has detected four cases of the South African strain of the COVID-19 virus, a top government official said on Tuesday.
CONAKRY: Guinea has recorded up to 10 suspected cases of Ebola and five people have died since the start of a new outbreak of the deadly virus in the...
MOSCOW: Russia's foreign ministry denied on Tuesday a report that Moscow and Washington were in talks over a possible prisoner swap that could secure the...
Iranian and Russian militaries have kicked off a joint naval drill in the Indian Ocean aimed at boosting security of maritime trade in the region, Iran’s...
At least 37 passengers were killed when a bus plunged into a canal in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, police told AFP.
DUBAI: Yemeni forces on Monday repelled attacks by the Iran-backed Huthi rebels on multiple fronts, military officials said, as the insurgents intensified...
BRUSSELS: Taliban militants in Afghanistan must do more to meet the terms of a 2020 peace agreement and allow for any possible foreign troop withdrawal by...
BAKU: Azerbaijan on Monday threw out a journalist's appeal after he was jailed on charges of high treason, which he and rights groups have denied as...
ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused the United States of siding with "terrorists" after blaming outlawed Kurdish militants of executing...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday that his plan to lift the COVID-19 lockdown would be cautious but irreversible and would include the earliest...
Protesters in Myanmar kept up demands on Monday for the release of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and an end to military rule, undaunted by the junta's...
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Myanmar’s major cities for a ninth day of anti-coup demonstrations on Sunday, after a fearful night as...
The end of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial opens a new chapter for his successor in the White House.