Earlier this month, India sparked panic among its long-suffering Rohingya refugee population by deporting a family of five to their home country of Myanmar, where they will most certainly face human rights violations and

Malaysia has unveiled an ambitious five-year plan to clamp down on corruption in government, months after a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal brought down the previous administration. The plan, launched by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on

Hamad al-Mansouri was sitting at a shisha cafe in Beirut watching his national Qatari football team take on South Korea in the quarter-finals of the AFC Asian Cup on TV. The 37-year-old jumped off

The United Nations has said that the Lake Chad region and Central Africa are facing growing humanitarian challenges born from a variety of conflicts, including the fight against Boko Haram. Nigeria's nine-year war against

Politicians in the United Kingdom are at a stalemate over what to do about Brexit and Britain's future relationship with Europe. Overall 52 percent of people voted to leave in the 2016 referendum but

BRUSSELS: Iran is likely to expand its cyber espionage activities as its relations with Western powers worsen, the EU digital security agency said on Monday. Iranian hackers are behind several cyberattacks and online disinformation campaigns

DUBAI: Bahrain insisted Monday on the extradition from Thailand of a footballer convicted for a terrorism offense. Hakeem Al-Araibi was jailed in absentia in 2014 for 10 years on charges related to an attack on

SOUSA: Kurdish-led fighters pressed their assault against the Daesh group in eastern Syria Monday, boxing the extremists into a tiny last pocket of land along the Euphrates River.Bad weather and reduced visibility delayed the

The administration of US President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), its harshest economic punishment to date against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, whom

Tokyo, Japan - It is a bare, unheated room whose minimal interior details are confined to a bed, a toilet, an iron-barred window and a door without a handle. The place that Carlos Ghosn