Saudi and Turkish officials have made conflicting statements on the whereabouts of a prominent journalist who has reportedly gone missing while visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident critical of the country's

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that the US is withdrawing from a 1955 treaty with Iran, just hours after the UN's highest court ordered Washington to ease sanctions against Tehran. "I'm announcing

Amnesty International slams ‘sickening’ execution of domestic and sexual violence victim in Iran LONDON: Amnesty International have responded to reports that a 24-year-old Kurdish woman was executed on Wednesday morning in Urumieh central prison

CAIRO: The UN children's agency on Wednesday suspended cash transfers to 9 million of Yemen's most impoverished citizens under pressure from Yemen's Houthi rebels. The move comes at a time when Yemen's local currency

CAIRO: The UN children's agency on Wednesday suspended cash transfers to 9 million of Yemen's most impoverished citizens under pressure from Yemen's Houthi rebels. The move comes at a time when Yemen's local currency

A small boat carrying migrants has capsized off Guinea-Bissau, a port official said, adding that the vessel may have had more than 60 people on board when it set off. A Coast Guard Commander

Indian police bused seven Rohingya Muslims to the border on Wednesday to be deported to neighbouring Myanmar for illegal entry, officials and activists said, the first such move against the community. An estimated 40,000

The wife of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, Rosmah Mansor, has been arrested by the country's anti-graft agency over a multibillion-dollar scandal that helped bring down the government. "Rosmah has been arrested," her

British Prime Minister Theresa May has called on her Conservative Party to pull together and unite behind her plan to leave the European Union, saying "if we hold our nerve" she can win a

The South African government is being urged to do more to tackle drug gangs by communities who say increased policing is not nearly enough.   Al Jazeera's Fahmida Miller reports from Cape Flats, in