Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, whose arrest last year drew international condemnation, has been honoured by Spanish football club Real Madrid after she was released from Israeli prison. The 17-year-old was arrested in December 2017

I recently did a straw poll of the women in my life and realised that I know more survivors of sexual assault than I do mothers. The national statistics are staggering - according to

DUBAI: The Yemeni army controls the road between Hajjah and Sa'ada towards Maran, Al Arabiya News Channel reported on Monday. Saturday, the Yemeni army killed Houthi militia commander and 12 other militants during clashes

UNITED NATIONS: Syria’s foreign minister on Saturday denounced US, French and Turkish forces operating in his country as “occupying forces” and demanded that they leave immediately.Addressing the UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister Walid Al-Moualem

Jharkhand, India: It was dusk in Uduburu, the time that farmers usually return home after working in the paddy fields, but the hamlet in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand was deserted.  The village square

Thousands of people have attended funerals in Gaza for the Palestinians killed by Israeli forces on Friday. Seven people, including two young boys, died while protesting along Gaza's barrier fence with Israel. Al Jazeera's

A powerful typhoon hurtled toward Japan's mainland on Sunday after injuring dozens on southern islands, as weather officials warned that fierce winds and torrential rain could trigger landslides and floods. The typhoon has already

The death toll from an earthquake that prompted a tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has risen to 832, the national disaster mitigation agency has said, adding it assessed the affected area to

Turkish president wraps up a state visit to Germany by opening Europe's largest mosque, with police deploying in force to manage the rival rallies.

IRBIL/SULAIMANIA, Iraq: Kurds began voting in a parliamentary election in their semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq on Sunday, a year after a failed bid for independence. With opposition parties weak, the Kurdistan Democratic Party