A United Nations donors conference for Yemen has raised about $2.6bn of the $4bn needed to address the humanitarian crisis in the country, where about 80,000 children below the age of five have already

Kabul, Afghanistan - Mohammad Hanif Atmar, Afghanistan's powerful former national security adviser, will challenge President Ashraf Ghani for the country's top post in July's planned elections. Often referred to as "the shadow president" during

Indonesia's authorities say rescuers are searching for survivors as more than 60 people are feared buried by the collapse of an illegal gold mine on the island of Sulawesi province. The country's disaster agency

Cuban voters ratified a new Constitution on Sunday that legalises the free market in a vote that saw a growing portion of the population express dissent compared with the island's last constitutional referendum in 1976. In Sunday's

Guatemala City – When private security forces for a mining company operating in Guatemala began shooting at protesters in 2013, Misael Martinez ran. “We were peacefully protesting at the gate, in front of the

DUBAI: The Houthi militia’s occupation of parts of Yemen has increased people’s suffering, which has been falsely blamed on a “Saudi blockade,” said the British ambassador to Yemen. “It’s no coincidence that the number of

DUBAI: The Houthi militia’s occupation of parts of Yemen has increased people’s suffering, which has been falsely blamed on a “Saudi blockade,” said the British ambassador to Yemen. “It’s no coincidence that the number of

SINJAR: It is dawn in Sinjar and the only sounds are the footsteps of guards patrolling a golden-domed shrine on a hill overlooking a vista of collapsed rooftops. More than three years after Daesh was

Although over the past year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences put some effort into addressing the traditional lack of diversity in its structures and film award selection, this year's Oscars did

Doha, Qatar - In the cyclic escalation of hostilities between the nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, the perspective from Pakistan-administered Kashmir is often overlooked. That rare opportunity presented itself last week during a visit to