Cuba's National Assembly has said language opening the way to the legalisation of same-sex marriage will be removed from the draft of the country's new constitution to "respect all opinions." A parliamentary commission responsible

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Tuesday ordered the continuation of public sector cost-of-living allowances and then announced a $295bn budget for 2019, the kingdom's biggest ever. The budget announcement projected a $35bn shortfall, amounting to

London (CNN Business)The auto industry is pushing back on new EU targets that would slash carbon emissions produced by cars and vans.EU officials struck a deal late Monday that aims to reduce automakers' carbon

WASHINGTON: The US said Monday it was no longer seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad but renewed warnings it would not fund reconstruction unless the regime is “fundamentally different.” James Jeffrey, the US special

AMMAN: As the Middle East ushers in 2019, the decade’s ruinous conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Libya and Iraq seem to be winding down after exacting a painful price — many thousands killed, millions uprooted

SoftBank Corp shares plunged more than 10 percent in their debut on Wednesday, as investor appetite for Japan's biggest ever IPO was hurt by a recent major service outage and worries over its exposure

Karachi, Pakistan - In the heart of Karachi's southern neighbourhood of Lyari, a cafe has given birth to, and shelters, dreams of many women of the area. At the Lyari Girls Cafe in Pakistan's

Ray Okech, 33, has gotten into trouble many times for doing his job as a journalist in South Sudan. Not one to shy away from covering political, human rights or corruption stories, Okech has

After public outcry, the United States has granted a visa waiver to a Yemeni woman whose dying son is on life support in the US, the family's lawyer said on Tuesday. Shaima Swileh is

On May 22, 2017, a 22-year-old Manchester-born man of Libyan descent detonated a home-made bomb at a pop concert. Twenty-three people, including the attacker, were killed. The attack came 16 years after the declaration