The biggest democracy in the world is due to elect its leader for the next five years in fewer than 100 days -and the race has just become more interesting. On Wednesday, the main

Venezuela has plunged further into political crisis amid a growing row over President Nicolas Maduro's future as the country's leader.  Maduro started a second term on January 10 following a widely-boycotted election last year

The United States, Canada and major South American nations recognised the head of Venezuela's opposition-controlled legislature, Juan Guaido, as the country's interim leader on Wednesday, leaving President Nicolas Maduro increasingly isolated. Major regional players

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday informed President Donald Trump that he would not be allowed to deliver an annual State of the Union address in the House chamber until a

Athens, Greece - On Thursday night, Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) are due to put to rest a 27-year dispute over the latter country's name. Following months of heated debate,

MOSCOW: Russia said on Wednesday that Israel should stop carrying out what Moscow called arbitrary airstrikes on Syria, days after the Israeli air force targeted what Israel said were Iranian forces there. Israel has repeatedly

BAQA AL-GHARBIYA, ISRAEL: Thousands of mourners attended the funeral on Wednesday of Aya Maasarwe, an Arab Israeli student killed in Australia, in her hometown of Baqa Al-Gharbiya in northern Israel. The 21-year-old was raped and

LIVERPOOL: The traffickers told Fardin Gholami that a fishing boat would take him from France to England at midnight, but when he and five other Iranian asylum seekers got to the beach, all they found

Italy and France have long been close allies and fellow founding European Union members. But relations have taken a turn for the worse since Italy's populist parties came to power in June. Much of the

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday confirmed 14 new cases of Ebola virus in its eastern borderlands, the largest one-day increase since the current outbreak was declared in August. In all, the