LONDON: British academic Matthew Hedges returned to London on Tuesday a day after the UAE pardoned his life sentence for spying.Britain on Monday thanked the UAE after he was among more than 700 prisoners

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukraine is to blame for the confrontation in Crimea, as Moscow warned that the conflict could escalate because of Kiev's decision to declare martial law. In

Amsterdam - The late-November arrival of Sinterklaas in the Netherlands heralds three weeks of holiday festivities. And, for the eighth year running, it is also accompanied by protests against Zwarte Piet, or Black Pete,

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has met members of opposition parties to discuss ways of reforming the country's electoral system, the latest move in a campaign to open up a political arena dominated by his

Pakistan is silencing discussion on a growing number of topics, causing concern among human rights activists, journalists and political dissidents in the country. A Committee to Protect Journalists report published in September this year

A month and a half since digging in one of Raqqa's largest discovered mass graves began, grave diggers continue to exhume bodies, with one official saying that more than 500 bodies have been so

LONDON: British academic Matthew Hedges returned to London on Tuesday a day after the UAE pardoned his life sentence for spying.Britain on Monday thanked the UAE after he was among more than 700 prisoners

LONDON: British academic Matthew Hedges returned to London on Tuesday a day after the UAE pardoned his life sentence for spying.Britain on Monday thanked the UAE after he was among more than 700 prisoners

BAB AL-HAWA, Syria: A rebel administration in Syria’s last major insurgent stronghold of Idlib handed over a four-year-old girl to her Belgian mother on Monday after a custody dispute following her father’s death.An AFP

It is the worst Ebola outbreak to have struck the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) - and the most complex one. Since August, authorities in the country, together with a host of partners, have been trying to