BRASILIA: Honduras will hold talks with Israel, joined by the United States, aimed at opening an embassy in Jerusalem, the countries said on Tuesday, as the small Central American nation looks to follow US

Donald Trump showed no signs on budging on his demand for border wall funding on Wednesday, the 12th day of a partial federal government shutdown.  The shutdown, which began on December 22, was triggered

The United States wants an explanation for why Russia detained a retired US Marine on spying charges in Moscow and will demand his immediate return if it determines his detention is inappropriate, Secretary of

Newly installed far-right President Jair Bolsonaro issued executive orders targeting Brazil's indigenous groups, descendants of slaves and the LGBT community in the first hours of his administration, moving quickly after a campaign in which

Geoffrey Douglas Langlands, a British officer who remained in Pakistan after the end of colonial rule in India and became one of the country's most respected educators, has died in the eastern city of Lahore.

Technology giants face paying bigger tax bills in Europe worth billions of dollars. Austria is the latest country to announce plans to impose levies on large internet companies. It follows the French government’s so-called

BEIRUT: The powerful Lebanese Shi'ite militia Hezbollah believes a solution to be "very close" for the country's impasse over forming a new government, one of its senior officials said on Wednesday, following nearly eight

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States would get out of Syria "over a period of time" and wants to protect the US-backed Kurdish fighters in the country as Washington draws

Thirteen civilians have been killed in ethnic violence in central Burkina Faso, the government said on Wednesday, echoing a rise in inter-communal conflicts in neighbouring Mali. Armed men on motorbikes descended on the village

Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has announced plans to "worsen" conditions for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The plans, which were the result of a committee Erdan set up seven months ago to