The head of the International Monetary Fund has warned that a "no deal" exit from the European Union will come at a substantial economic cost to the UK. Christine Lagarde says the UK's growth

SOCHI: Russia and Turkey have agreed to create a "demilitarised zone" around Syria's rebel-held province of Idlib, President Vladimir Putin said Monday after lengthy talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan."We have decided

BASRA: A health crisis in the Iraqi city of Basra has claimed an unexpected victim — a top football club from Baghdad is 10 players down and unable to kick off the new season.The

BEIRUT: Missiles were fired at several locations in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia on Monday but were intercepted and downed by air defences, Syrian state media said.The official SANA news agency said state

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the United States would cap the number of refugees allowed into the country at 30,000 for fiscal year 2019, a move rights advocates described as "shameful"

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has shown support for same-sex marriage, saying that discrimination of any kind should be eliminated.  The 57-year-old leader said on Sunday he backed marriage "between people without any restrictions" but

Honduras's supreme court has indefinitely suspended the start of a trial of eight men accused in the 2016 killing of prize-winning Honduran indigenous and environmental rights activist Berta Caceres. Judiciary spokesman Melvin Duarte said

Guatemala City - Guatemalan activists and politicians warn of a breakdown in constitutional order following the government's rejection of a court ruling overturning the president's decision to ban an international anti-corruption commissioner from the

Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, has accused Russia of "cheating" international sanctions placed on North Korea in a bid to choke Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. During a fractious Security Council meeting on

JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday decided to allow 1,000 Ethiopians to immigrate to Israel, his office announced, in a rare intake of the Falashmura community.The Falashmuras claim to be descendants of Ethiopian