LONDON: Suffering has become the status quo in Syria but the casualties of its seven-year conflict are drifting from the public eye. The world’s attention span dwindled with the decline of Daesh in the

BERLIN: Germany’s Angela Merkel hosts Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Berlin Friday to try to repair badly frayed ties, a task complicated by planned anti-Erdogan protests and the chancellor’s own domestic woes.The pair

Long gone are the days when authoritarian leaders of the Global South, like Muammar al-Gaddafi and Hugo Chavez, were stealing the show at the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York. Today, it

Sao Paulo - In less than two weeks, Brazilian voters will head to the polls choose a new president. It's been a turbulent contest so far, packed with drama, including an assassination attempt on Jair Bolsonaro,

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has returned to Tehran, triumphant. In remarks to his people, Rouhani said the UN General Assembly was an opportunity for him to explain Iran's point of view to the world's

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov called on voters to boycott this weekend's referendum on a name change, saying the country was being asked to commit "historical suicide". Macedonians vote on Sunday on whether to add

Nearly 200 people have died in flooding caused by heavy seasonal rains across 12 states in Nigeria. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said on Thursday that 199 people were killed after the main

UNITED NATIONS, New York:  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared on Thursday that his people’s rights “are not up for bargaining” and he accused the US of undermining the two-state solution, a day after President

LONDON: Suffering has become the status quo in Syria but the casualties of its seven-year conflict are drifting from the public eye. The world’s attention span dwindled with the decline of Daesh in the

CAIRO: An autopsy on a Coptic Orthodox monk who had until recently belonged to a monastery northwest of Cairo where the abbot was killed showed clear signs of poisoning, Egyptian security and medical officials