Toronto - Canada, Mexico, and the United States ushered in NAFTA 2.0 late on Sunday, just before an end-of-weekend deadline set by the US to salvage the 24-year-old trilateral deal. Renamed the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA),

Bogota is the worst city to live in for girls and young women when it comes to sexual harassment, a report by a humanitarian group says. The report by Plan International, titled "Girls' Safety

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Political party canvassers were busy on Sunday at Rio de Janeiro's Gloria market in a last-ditch effort to persuade passersby to vote for their candidate, ahead of next weekend's elections. A

BAGHDAD: A vote in Iraq’s parliament to decide the next president was delayed until Tuesday as a deadline for filling the post approaches. What should have been a routine procedure to approve a presidential

JEDDAH: Damning new evidence has emerged of an Iranian plot to detonate bombs during the Hajj pilgrimage in 1986, using explosives planted in the baggage of innocent pilgrims before they flew to Saudi Arabia. The

Lebanese Foreign Ministry responds to Netanyahu with diplomatic tour of 'missile launcher' sites BEIRUT: Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil responded to what he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “allegations” in his speech to

Prominent Emirati rights activist Ahmed Mansoor has filed a Supreme Court appeal in a bid to overturn a 10-year prison sentence handed to him earlier this year over several Twitter posts. Mansoor was sentenced

US Open champion Naomi Osaka has said that her landmark victory in New York last month still felt "bittersweet" after a controversial and dramatic final against her childhood idol Serena Williams. The Japanese player's

Qatar's sports broadcaster beIN has launched a $1bn compensation claim against Saudi Arabia, accusing it of "breaching international law" in relation to the streaming of sporting events beIN owns the rights to. Separately, on

Iraq’s parliament has to elect its new president within the next few hours, a role that is served by a Kurd. The process has been plagued with delays and both main Kurdish parties are