The Spanish government is holding a special cabinet meeting to approve measures to take direct control of the semi-autonomous region of Catalonia. The meeting comes almost...
For the 4,000 registered fishermen in the besieged Gaza Strip, a proposed Israeli plan to let them temporarily fish farther out from shore is “far from...
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said he has little hope that the months-long Gulf diplomatic crisis will be resolved soon, blaming the Saudi-led group...
After a tumultuous marriage of more than 27 years, South Yemen appears to be edging closer to divorcing the north in a move politically and financially...
Fauziah Hakim Ahmad sits on a thin brown blanket laid out across the dusty floor of an abandoned housing project on the outskirts of Erbil. “Where...
Fatah and Hamas have vowed to press ahead with the implementation of a national unity deal, in response to a US official demanding the disarming of...
A proposal to convene a congress of all Syria’s ethnic groups is being actively discussed, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. The initiative has...
The Spanish government has agreed with the opposition Socialists (PSOE) to hold January regional elections in Catalonia, Reuters reports. The move is part of an extraordinary...
South Korean’s citizens recommended on Friday that the government continue building two stalled nuclear reactors that the new president had wanted to shutter, AP reports. A...
Some 25,000 people turned up in Paris on Thursday to protest a controversial labor reform spearheaded by French President Emmanuel Macron as part of his pro-business...
Deaths caused by pollution topped 9 million in 2015, or three times the figure from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, and almost 15 times as many...