A United Nations human rights watchdog has called on Bahrain to release three relatives of a prominent exiled activist, describing their detention as an unlawful act of reprisal over their family connection. The UN's

US President Donald Trump has pressed his case to get the $5.7bn he wants for a wall on the southern border. The Democrat-controlled Congress is refusing to fund the project, the standoff leading to

Three protesters have been killed during an anti-government demonstration in Sudan even as thousands chanted support for President Omar al-Bashir at a rival rally in the capital, Khartoum. Sudan's official SUNA news agency on

A Houthi drone attack has hit a Yemeni government military parade in Lahij Province, killing several, according to Houthi media and Sky News Arabia. The attack on the airbase in southern town of al-Anad

Facial recognition technology has made huge progress in recent years. And those advances are on display at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The technology is rapidly making its way into everyday

Overrun by African criminal gangs, its streets filled with violence, terror and menace - that's how some local media and politicians are depicting the Australian city of Melbourne. For more than two years, there

LONDON: A US lobbyist in 2017 received nearly $4 million from a PR firm with apparent links to the Qatari government, in what one analyst said was an ongoing attempt by Doha to curry

LONDON: UN Yemen envoy Martin Griffiths told the Security Council on Wednesday that both sides have largely stuck to the Hodeidah ceasefire and there has been a significant decrease in hostilities. The briefing was the

Melbourne, Australia - Pressure is growing on Thailand to allow detained footballer Hakeem al-Araibi to go home to Australia, where he was granted refugee status in 2017 after fleeing Bahrain, following a Saudi woman's

South Korea's President Moon Jae-in has said Japan should take a "more humble" attitude towards the past, warning Tokyo not to undermine bilateral ties by "politicising" the issue of South Koreans forced to work