The 2019 AFC Asian Cup final Who: Japan v Qatar When: 14:00 GMT, February 1, 2019 Where: Zayed Sport City Stadium, Abu Dhabi Doha, Qatar - Underdogs Qatar will take on four-time winners Japan in

Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido presented the opposition's broad vision for the country's future on Thursday, as the political crisis in the country deepened.  "We have a plan, well thought out, structured," Guaido said

DEAD SEA, JORDAN: Top diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Jordan concluded talks on Thursday aimed at coordinating policy on the multiple conflicts gripping the region. Jordanian Foreign Minister

Lebanon announced the formation of a government on Thursday eight months after elections and amid heightened fears of a major economic collapse. The Western-backed Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri now faces a big challenge in

In her first press conference since a record-long partial government shutdown ended, top Democrat Nancy Pelosi renewed her party's vow that Democrats will not allocate funding to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. 

A Kurdish asylum seeker has won one of the most important Australian literature prizes, the Victorian Prize for Literature. However, Iranian Kurd Behrouz Boochani was unable to accept the award personally in Melbourne because he is being

US federal immigration officials are force-feeding six hunger-striking immigrants through plastic nasal tubes inside a Texas detention facility, The Associated Press news agency reported on Thursday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said 11 detainees at

Preparations are under way in Iran to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1979 revolution on Friday. The Islamic Republic of Iran was created after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile. In the weeks

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said on Thursday that his country was reopening its border with Eritrea, which has been shut for about a year.Sudan closed the border in early January, 2018, after Bashir announced

DUBAI: Thousands of Catholics have been queuing for hours outside UAE churches, eagerly waiting to collect their tickets for Tuesday’s historic papal mass. Pope Francis will be the first pontiff to visit the Gulf peninsula