Russia, Iran, Turkey agree on convening committee to draw up new Syria constitution GENEVA: Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday the foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey have agreed to facilitate convening the

RABAT: Moroccan authorities on Tuesday arrested a suspect over the murder of two Scandinavian women in the High Atlas mountains, a popular trekking destination for tourists.Other suspects are being sought over the killings of

Saudi Arabia's human rights commission is investigating the alleged torture of women's rights activists including accusations of electrocution and waterboarding, the Wall Street Journal reported. Citing government officials and other people familiar with the activists' situation,

More than 40 million voters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo go to the polls on Sunday, they will be using electronic voting machines for the first time. The electoral commission says the

US President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Tuesday, authorising the Department of Defense to create a Space Command, a new organisational structure within the Pentagon that will have overall control of military space operations.

More than half of all journalists killed this year - including Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi - were targeted deliberately, reflecting a hatred of the media voiced in many areas of society, according to a media watchdog.

Cyclone Phethai made landfall near Katrenikona in India's Andhra Pradesh state, lashing the coast with heavy rains and wind. The warm waters of the Bay of Bengal aided in the storm strengthening into a

A new report says that Nigeria has now replaced India as the country with the highest number of people living in extreme poverty. Nigeria has the highest gross domestic product (GDP) in Africa, but

A fragile calm has taken hold in Yemen's western city of Hodeidah, just hours after a UN-brokered ceasefire deal between Houthi fighters and forces loyal to the government came into effect. Residents in the city told

It's been more than a year now that the Trump administration has been talking about the "deal of the century" to bring some form of settlement to the Palestinian question in the Middle East.