Rwandan opposition activist and former presidential candidate Diane Rwigara has been released on bail after spending more than a year in jail on charges including inciting insurrection against the government of President Paul Kagame.

One year ago separatists, who control the Catalan regional government, held what they called a binding referendum on Catalan independence. Spain's central government in the capital, Madrid, rejected the vote as illegal and Prime

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would consider putting Turkey’s long-stalled bid to join the EU to a referendum, signalling exasperation with a process he says has been waylaid by prejudice against Muslims.

WASHINGTON: Former secretary of state John Kerry voiced fear Friday of conflict with Iran after the United States pulled out of a denuclearization deal, saying regional leaders had privately pressed him for military strikes.Kerry

JERUSALEM: The UN agency that helps Palestinian refugees expressed concern on Friday over moves by the mayor of Jerusalem to close down its operations in the city. Mayor Nir Barkat said on Thursday he

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has praised the kingdom's relationship with the current US administration just days after President Donald Trump warned that the Middle East nation wouldn't survive "two weeks" without

A Chicago jury convicted a white police officer of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old African American.  Jason Van Dyke shot McDonald 16 times on the night of October

The leader of the Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas has said that another war in the Gaza Strip is "definitely not in our interest." Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth and Italian newspaper La Repubblica published a

Christine Blasey Ford has accused US Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers. According to Ford, Kavanaugh groped her and tried to remove her clothing at a party

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has welcomed Turkey to search the Saudi consulate in Istanbul following the disapperance of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi who entered the mission earlier this week.  In an exclusive interview