Seoul, South Korea - More than 500 Yemenis have applied for refugee status on South Korea's Jeju island. The influx has provoked a debate over the country's role in handling asylum-seekers. Protests on Jeju and

Idlib province has become somewhat of a refuge for rebel fighters and their families forced to leave other parts of Syria after the government re-took them. It is the last significant territory under opposition

JEDDAH: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a group of Israeli lawmakers and activists on Sunday that US President Donald Trump’s negotiating team had asked whether he would agree to a confederation with neighboring

DUBAI: Yemen’s warring parties meet in Geneva Thursday for a new round of peace talks with little hope of a breakthrough in an “ugly war” between the government and Houthi militias linked to Iran.

Spain put the brakes on a sale of hundreds of missiles to Saudi Arabia amid concerns about their use against civilians in the war in Yemen. The defence ministry has launched a process to cancel

The United Nations' mission in Libya says rival armed groups in Tripoli have reached a ceasefire agreement to end heavy fighting that has rocked the capital for more than a week. The announcement on

Chinese and African officials have rejected criticism of Beijing's development projects on the continent as they ended a summit that included a $60bn pledge for more aid to the continent. President Xi Jinping hosted

The confirmation hearing for US President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee quickly descended into chaos on Tuesday with Democrats demanding a postponement and protesters shouting loudly. Several Democrats interrupted the hearing, insisting legislators needed

An international judo competition in the United Arab Emirates has been reinstated after organisers promised that all participating nations, including Israel, will compete under equal conditions at the three-day event next month.  The International

BEIRUT: A Lebanese man demonstrating outside the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs in Beirut inflicted cuts on his body in protest against his “bad living situation.” The man, in his 60s, sat in front of