ADEN: Yemen’s government said Thursday it was ready to re-start peace talks with Houthi rebels, as international pressure to end the years-long conflict intensifies.The United Nations said a day earlier it aimed to relaunch
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ANKARA: A total of 260,000 Syrian nationals have returned to a swathe of land in northern Syria where Turkey carried out a cross-border operation dubbed “Euphrates Shield,” Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday.Turkey
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Just five days before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump tweeted an anti-immigrant online campaign video blaming Democrats and suggesting, without evidence, that a US-bound caravan of Central American refugees and migrants includes murderers.
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Saudi Arabia has been a strategic US partner in the Middle East for decades, first as a bulwark against the expansion of USSR-friendly regimes during the Cold War, then as an important guarantor of
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Prosecutors in the United States have unveiled criminal charges against a Malaysian financier and two former Goldman Sachs bankers tied to the billion-dollar 1MDB sovereign wealth fund scandal. The three-count indictment on Thursday charges Low Taek
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Hundreds of Google employees around the world have walked off the job, in an unprecedented protest against the internet giant's lenient approach to executives accused of sexual misconduct. Staff are demanding changes in how
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Far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro will be given the keys to Brazil's presidential palace on January 1st. The 63-year-old far-right former army captain, who vanquished rival Fernando Haddad of the leftist Workers' Party (PT) in
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(CNN)Brace yourself Buenos Aires -- one of football's biggest and most bitter rivalries is set to write arguably its most important chapter yet.Later this month Argentine clubs Boca Juniors and River Plate will face
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(CNN)France has launched a nationwide investigation into abnormal rates of babies born with missing or malformed limbs in several regions after 11 new cases were identified.In October, the country's health agency, Santé Publique France,
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(CNN)A Republican politician from Illinois has angered the residents of a coastal English village by featuring a picture of its streets to depict "foreclosures, unemployment and economic recession." Last week the Facebook page of
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