JERUSALEM: A baby and her pregnant mother were among three Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza overnight Wednesday, officials said, as the Jewish state struck a series of targets in response to dozens

HERAT, Afghanistan: Migrant workers squeezed into battered taxis pull into the Four Seasons of Freedom hotel in western Afghanistan, part of a wave of Afghans forced to leave Iran after a currency implosion wiped

The Ivory Coast's former first lady has been freed from jail, after being granted amnesty for her role in the civil war. Simone Gbagbo's husband Laurent refused to accept electoral defeat in 2010, triggering

Zimbabwean police detained a former finance minister and now opposition figure Tendai Biti after Zambian authorities rejected his bid for asylum and deported him. "An hour ago Biti was handed over to Zimbabwean law

The Saudi-UAE military alliance at war with Yemen's Houthi rebels has been blamed for an attack on a school bus that killed dozens of people, including children attending Holy Quran classes. Ghani Nayeb, the head

Young Aboriginal Australians are four times more likely to commit suicide than non-indigenous Australians and in one remote community in the country's Kimberley region, the Aboriginal suicide rate is estimated to be seven times the

South Sudan President Salva Kiir offered amnesty to all those involved in the nation's bloody five-year civil war as part of a recent agreement to end the fighting. Rebel leader Riek Machar was among those granted

Egyptian authorities have arrested at least 22 people in the past four days as part of a campaign against LGBT people, Amnesty International says. Thirty-two men and one woman have now been detained since

For the first time in its history Saudi Arabia has appointed women to senior positions in national financial institutions, marking a dramatic social shift in the highly-conservative nation with strict laws curtailing female independence.

Saudi Arabia, which is leading a military intervention in Yemen, is the world’s second-largest arms importer, according to a new report. Riyadh’s arms imports increased 212 percent compared with 2007–11, with the US remaining