German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told European Union countries to tackle racist attitudes within the bloc, and said that no member state can can avoid the "challenge" migration poses. She made the comments on Saturday

Exiled Palestinian photographer Tyesir Batniji is showing his work about the lives of those who fled the violence in Gaza at the Arles Photo Festival in the south of France. Al Jazeera's David Chater

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi is to visit top trading partners Turkey and Iran next week, an official said Saturday, days after Washington slapped new sanctions on Tehran and piled economic pressure on

CAIRO: Egyptian security officials say a man wearing an explosives belt attempted to attack a Coptic Christian church north of Cairo but failed to enter before blowing himself up.The officials said Saturday the man

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s partnership with the United States may be in jeopardy as ties strain, warning Ankara could start looking for new allies, in an op-ed published in the New

Calls are growing for the release of award-winning photographer and social activist Shahidul Alam who was detained by Bangladeshi police for "provocative comments" about student-led protests in the country. Alam, 63, was picked up by officers

Afghanistan's top electoral body has barred dozens of candidates from running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, officials said. The Independent Electoral Complaints Commission (IECC) issued a statement on Saturday with the names of the

Torrential rains and landslides in the southern Indian state of Kerala have killed dozens of people, ravaged farmlands and forced thousands to be evacuated, officials said.  More than half of Kerala's 14 districts were

Kenyan authorities have arrested several senior officials on suspicion of corruption over their management of a flagship $3.2bn railway project. The National Prosecution Authority said in a statement on Saturday that it had agreed to

Lebanon is considering legalising the cultivation and export of cannabis for medical purposes as part of an effort to revive the country's struggling economy. "The Lebanese Parliament is preparing to study and adopt the legislation