The US Department of State says it is planning to re-negotiate a deal that, until now, has prevented the repatriation of Vietnamese citizens who arrived in the US prior to 1995 and subsequently were

Owen is the first cyclone for Australia's tropical season and has been impressive from the start. After forming in the Coral Sea, Owen made its first landfall in eastern Queensland, then crossed the Cape

Israel irked at Australia’s ‘mistaken’ W. Jerusalem recognition JERUSALEM, DUBAI: Israel signaled displeasure on Sunday with Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem as its capital, with a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying it

DUBAI: The UN’s envoy to Yemen called on Sunday for pro-government forces and rebels to respect a cease-fire in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, after repeated clashes between the two sides threatened

Yemeni PM: Funds from Saudi Arabia, UAE should be managed to achieve intended goals JEDDAH: Yemeni Prime Minister Maeen Abdul Malek stressed on the importance of managing funds to Yemen from Saudi Arabia and

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has become the first Arab League leader to visit Damascus since the war in Syria began nearly eight years ago. Syria's state-run news agency SANA said al-Bashir was greeted on Sunday at

Saudi Arabia has denounced as "blatant interference" a resolution by the US Senate accusing the kingdom's crown prince of ordering the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and calling for an end to Washington's military support for a

Around two weeks ago, in a move that caught many by surprise, Iran's security forces arrested Iranian-Australian academic Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi, a widely respected population researcher at the University of Melbourne, as she was leaving Iran. They also summoned her colleague,

If "the present conducts the past the way a conductor conducts an orchestra," bringing forward "these particular sounds, or those, and no others" - as the great Italian novelist Italo Svevo observed in an often

Thousands of people protested in Hungary against a controversial new labour law and the rule of right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Sunday's protest, called "Merry Xmas Mr Prime Minister" by organisers, was the fourth