Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has promised the New Year will bring about economic development, as security forces dispersed anti-government protests in the capital using teargas and live ammunition. In a speech marking 63 years

US House Democrats are introducing a package of bills on Monday that would re-open the federal government without approving money for President Donald Trump's border wall. The House is preparing to vote as soon

Rescuers are battling through the bitter cold in Russia's Ural Mountains for survivors after a gas explosion tore through a high-rise apartment building killing at least four people. Officials have said up to 40

Bangladesh’s governing party banners still hang by the thousands in this Dhaka neighbourhood. Opposition candidates and their supporters say they were threatened, beaten by pro-government supporters and often detained by the police when they

Parts of Amsterdam's Schipol Airport have been evacuated after a man in a departure hall claimed he had a bomb, police said.  The alert on Monday evening saw a large number of security services,

BAGHDAD: Iraq sentenced more than 600 foreigners including many women and dozens of minors in 2018 for belonging to the Daesh group, the judiciary said on Monday.Iraq declared “victory” over Daesh at the end

RAMALLAH, West Bank: A Palestinian court sentenced an American-Palestinian on Monday to life imprisonment for violating a ban on selling land to Israelis, judiciary officials said.The US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, called in

TAIZ: Day after day Nabil Al-Hakimi, a humanitarian official in Taiz, one of Yemen’s largest cities, went to work feeling he had a “mountain” on his shoulders. Billions of dollars in food and other

The daughter of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has posted on her Twitter account what she said were the last words her father had for the Iraqi people, four days before his execution

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition at hundreds of demonstrators in central Khartoum on Monday as demonstrators attempted to march to President Omar al-Bashir's palace calling on him to "step down".