A senior US senator has called on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to clarify if Saudi Arabia helped a citizen of that country flee the US before his manslaughter trial. In a letter on

DUBAI: A rescue helicopter crashed in Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday evening killing all of the crew, the country’s civil aviation authority said. Local media reported that the helicopter struck a

DUBAI: A rescue helicopter crashed in Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday evening killing all of the crew, the country’s civil aviation authority said. Local media reported that the helicopter struck a

Dhaka, Bangladesh - Millions of Bangladeshis are set to vote in Sunday's parliamentary elections amid concerns expressed by rights bodies over "restrictive electoral environment". Voting will start at 8 am local time (0200 GMT)

Britain's immigration minister Caroline Nokes is due to meet border officials in the port city of Dover over a spike in migrants and refugees trying to cross the English Channel in small boats. The

The northern city of Manbij is one of the last remaining flashpoints in Syria's war And yet another example of the complicated Syrian jigsaw puzzle. It was under the control of Kurdish forces, but

Dozens of Saudi nationals belonging to two of the country's wealthiest families became Maltese citizens - and thus citizens of the European Union - last year after paying millions of dollars to buy the country's

Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano island, which erupted and collapsed a week ago triggering a deadly tsunami, is now only about a quarter of the size it was before its eruption, according to scientists. Anak

A coalition of professional associations in Sudan has again called for a march on the eve of the country's 63rd anniversary of independence to demand that President Omar al-Bashir step down immediately. In a

Yemen's Houthi rebels have started to redeploy inside the port city of Hodeidah as part of the United Nations-sponsored peace agreement signed in Sweden earlier this month, a UN source and a spokesperson for