Buenos Aires (CNN)President Donald Trump was only a half-hour into his nine-hour flight to the G20 summit here in the Argentine capital when he decided to pull the plug on the most hotly anticipated
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JEDDAH: The Arab coalition officially handed over responsibility for protecting the Hadramout region’s coastline to the Yemeni coast guard on Thursday.Boats equipped with weapons, communication devices and radar were given to the coast guard to
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BEIRUT: Lebanon’s army has detained around 400 Syrians in raids on refugee camps in the eastern Bekaa valley, mostly for overstaying their residence permits, a military source said Thursday.Almost eight years into Syria’s war,
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LONDON: Jordanian King Abdullah II has received the 2018 Templeton Prize at a ceremony held at the Washington National Cathedral. The event earlier this month was attended by ambassadors, Jordanian and US government officials,
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Shenzhen, China - China has suspended He Jiankui - the scientist who claims to have produced the world's first gene-edited babies, and he now looks set to face punishment after publicly revealing research many
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Melbourne, Australia - Australian members of the ethnic Hazara diaspora are desperately calling upon their government to do more to protect civilians in Afghanistan in the wake of heightened violence in the districts of
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US senators have sent a strong message to the White House: they will hold Saudi Arabia to account over its role in the war in Yemen and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Senate
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Taipei, Taiwan - "Every defeat is a deeper blow. But we'll keep on fighting until we are free," sings American singer-songwriter - and Taiwan transplant - Ellery Prescott in his song Keep on Fighting.
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Saudi Arabia continues to hold more than a dozen women rights activists in jail, months after a crackdown on dissent intensified in May. Most of them campaigned for the right to drive and an
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(CNN)Philippines news website Rappler and its chief executive have been indicted on tax evasion charges, the latest in a case that free speech and civil liberties advocates have warned is part of a wider
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