A group of former EU leaders called on European governments not to receive Austrian ministers from the far-right party and to boycott Austria’s EU presidency in the second half of 2018.
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A Cairo criminal court sentenced former Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi and 19 others to three years in prison on Saturday, and fined him 2 million Egyptian pounds ($112,700) on charges of…
Turkish police have arrested at least 75 people for suspected links to the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in the capital Ankara and Istanbul, according to state media.
Al…
Syrian rebels began to evacuate an enclave in southwestern Syria on Friday under a surrender deal with the government as the army thrust into the northwest—the armed opposition’s main remaining…
Lord Adonis has said he was forced to resign as an independent advisor after the government “tried to silence” him.
The former Labour minister quit his role as chairman of the government…
Russian President Vladimir Putin called for “pragmatic cooperation” in his New Year wishes to US President Donald Trump, the Kremlin said on Saturday.
King Abdullah II of Jordan has arrested his own brothers and cousin for suspected covert cooperation with Saudi Arabia, regional media has reported.
Jordan, which is usually seen as…
Iraqi troops have seized 70 explosive belts within a self-styled Islamic State terrorist group hotbed at a village in Tikrit city, a police spokesman was quoted as saying.
At least 10 people have been killed after a gunman opened fire on a Coptic church near the Egyptian capital, Egypt's Health Ministry said. The attacker tried to enter Mar Mina Church in Helwan…
More than 40 people were killed and dozens wounded in a suicide blast targeting Shias in Kabul on Thursday, officials said, with chaotic scenes at the city’s hospitals as anguished families…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed hope for a better relationship with Germany and the EU after a fractious 2017, saying Ankara needs to reduce its enemies and increase its…
Undocumented Ethiopian migrants who are being forcibly deported from Saudi Arabia by the thousands in a new crackdown say they were abused by authorities while detained.
In interviews…
South Africa’s top court on Friday ruled that parliament failed to hold embattled President Jacob Zuma accountable for using state funds to upgrade his private home, in a move that could trigger…
Former soccer star George Weah has won Liberia’s presidential run-off election and will succeed incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf next month, the country’s first democratic transition in over 70…
A US-backed Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has killed 109 civilians in airstrikes in the past 10 days, including 54 people at a crowded market and 14 members of one family on a farm, the…
New York City’s deadliest residential fire in decades spread through every floor of a Bronx apartment building within a matter of minutes, city officials said, killing 12 people and sending…
Nearly one-third of Germans back Martin Schulz’s plans for a “United States of Europe,” but support for his ideas varies greatly across the Continent, according to a poll released Thursday.
If Angela Merkel becomes German chancellor again, nearly half of voters would want her to quit her term early, according to a poll offering a rare sign that domestic support for Europe’s most…
The Spanish government on Tuesday announced that it had begun pulling out police reinforcements from Catalonia, almost three months after they were sent to halt an independence referendum that…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the FBI and the Clinton campaign on the Russia dossier compiled against him and his 2016 campaign.
At least 600 people have been arrested since protests began last week against authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan over corruption and the fallout from a failed independence push, lawmakers said…
A new batch of Turkish soldiers has arrived at Turkey’s military base in Qatar as part of a joint defense agreement between the two countries.
Qatar’s defense ministry announced on…
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has said that the US had offered the Palestinian Authority a Beit-ul-Moqaddas suburb, Abu Dis, as an alternative to East Beit-ul-Moqaddas for the capital of a future…
French President Emmanuel Macron called for a “complete lifting” of a blockade on Yemen in a telephone call with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Dec. 24, an Elysee source said on Wednesday.
The International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday said aid workers had started to evacuate people suffering from severe medical conditions from the rebel stronghold of Eastern Ghouta, a…
