GENEVA/DUBAi: Flood risks have forced the Iranian government to order the evacuation of 70 villages in the oil-rich southwestern province of Khuzestan on Tuesday, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported.The villages were close to

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party has challenged the results of local elections in Istanbul, Turkey's commercial hub, where preliminary results show a razor-thin victory for the main opposition candidate. Nationwide, the AK

The career of Jamal Khashoggi, who was considered to be the most renowned Saudi journalist before his murder in the Saudi consulate in Turkey six months ago, spanned decades, and for much of it,

In a week, Israelis will decide the fate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - whether to grant him a fifth term. At the heart of the campaign has been the contest between Netanyahu and

Saudi Arabia has given the four children of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi "million-dollar houses" and "monthly five-figure payments" as compensation for the killing of their father, the Washington Post reported. The kingdom is trying to

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has arrived in the North Macedonian capital Skopje to mark a "new chapter" in relations after the resolution of a bitter and decades-old dispute earlier this year.       "This

SYDNEY: The family of an Australian man who was detained for a year and is now unable to leave Egypt has called on the Australian government to help get him out of the country.Brisbane

Browbeating European NATO countries to spend more on their own defence has become a staple of US President Donald Trump's foreign policy. So too has his administration's "Buy American" drive to boost US arms

India's main opposition Congress party pledged on Tuesday to expand a rural employment guarantee programme, reward businesses for creating jobs and scrap an 1870 sedition law if it wins a general election that starts

On April 2, 2018, the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) elected Abiy Ahmed, a little-known reformist leader from the Oromo community, as prime minister, setting the stage for dramatic political and economic