Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was officially sworn in as Pakistan's new prime minister during a ceremony in the capital, Islamabad, on Saturday, marking a new beginning for politics in the country.  Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party

Tehran, Iran - On August 19, 1953, an American-led military coup toppled Iran's first democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a move described in a declassified CIA document "as an act of

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a planned trans-Baltic natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany is exclusively an economic project, in his latest remarks over a controversial venture that has divided Europe and

Cristiano Ronaldo has got his Serie A campaign off to a winning start, following his $117m move from Real Madrid to Italian giants Juventus. The reigning champions came from behind to snatch a dramatic 3-2

Torrential rain has lashed the west coast of Africa, leaving parts of Liberian capital Monrovia under water. The flooded streets witnessed long traffic jams, a number of rickshaws broke down and pedestrians were forced

UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday presented four options aimed at boosting the protection of Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories, from sending UN rights monitors and unarmed observers to deploying a military or

Just weeks after scoring a major military victory in the south, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad appears set to fully open a new, more complex, front in the country's war - now in its eighth

The UN migration agency says that more than 63,000 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea in 2018. Forty-two percent of them have arrived in Spain, but many others who undertake the treacherous

Egypt has rolled out a new law that allows authorities, through a judge, to order the blocking of websites that "constitute a threat" to the state, as well as jail or fine those who run them. The

Out of the 67 coups in 26 African countries in the last 50 years, 61 percent took place in former French colonies. Fifty percent of the monetary reserves of 14 African countries are still today under full French