Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has returned to Tehran, triumphant. In remarks to his people, Rouhani said the UN General Assembly was an opportunity for him to explain Iran's point of view to the world's

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov called on voters to boycott this weekend's referendum on a name change, saying the country was being asked to commit "historical suicide". Macedonians vote on Sunday on whether to add

Nearly 200 people have died in flooding caused by heavy seasonal rains across 12 states in Nigeria. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Thursday that 199 people were killed after the main

UNITED NATIONS, New York:  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared on Thursday that his people’s rights “are not up for bargaining” and he accused the US of undermining the two-state solution, a day after President

LONDON: Suffering has become the status quo in Syria but the casualties of its seven-year conflict are drifting from the public eye. The world’s attention span dwindled with the decline of Daesh in the

CAIRO: An autopsy on a Coptic Orthodox monk who had until recently belonged to a monastery northwest of Cairo where the abbot was killed showed clear signs of poisoning, Egyptian security and medical officials

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran on Thursday of keeping a "secret atomic warehouse" just outside its capital and called on UN nuclear inspectors to carry out inspections. Holding up enlarged images before

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas spoke in harsh and unflinching terms about Israel and the US at the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, while Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the platform

After weeks of intense diplomatic activity, Turkey seems to have managed to avert a full-scale offensive on Idlib province, the last opposition stronghold in northwest Syria. Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his

The UN Human Rights Council voted to set up a body to prepare evidence of human rights abuses in Myanmar - including possible genocide against the Muslim Rohingya - for any future prosecution. The