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Saudi Arabia has granted for the first time permission for Air India flights headed to Israel to use its airspace, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.

The decision, which will be…

US President Donald Trump has asked for a military parade and the Pentagon is reviewing potential dates, Pentagon spokesman Charlie Summers said on Tuesday.

The spokesman described the…

Egypt’s prosecutor-general has ordered an official investigation into a number of opposition politicians who are boycotting next month’s presidential election, as President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi…

The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un will visit the South this week for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Seoul said Wednesday—the first member of North Korea’s ruling family ever to do…

Rescue workers pulled survivors and bodies from buildings tilting precariously in the Taiwanese city of Hualien on Wednesday, after an overnight earthquake killed at least seven people, injured…

Ankara has announced that Turkish forces have set up a military post southwest of Syria’s Aleppo, which is claimed to be its “deepest” position in the northwestern part of Syria under Turkey’s…

French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Corsica on Tuesday to confront demands for greater autonomy for the restive Mediterranean island by nationalists buoyed by unprecedented political…

Top officials in South Africa’s ruling ANC party are divided over whether President Jacob Zuma should step down after multiple graft scandals, the party’s deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte…

Israeli bulldozers destroyed water lines that supply tens of acres of Palestinian-owned lands in the northern Jordan Valley area.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was prepared to make “painful compromises” as she headed in a final round of talks on Tuesday to seal a coalition deal for her fourth term and end months…

Several of US President Donald Trump’s lawyers have advised him not to sit down for an interview with a special counsel investigating possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign to…

A controversial visit to London by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS) is set to be delayed, amid reports that officials in Riyadh are concerned over possible protests and…

An opposition leader in the Maldives has called on India to intervene after President Abdulla Yameen declared a 15-day state of emergency amid a deepening political crisis in the island nation…

Russian politicians have claimed the US and its allies supplied an anti-aircraft missile used to shoot down a Russian jet over Syria, as Moscow increased attacks on rebels in the country’s Idlib…

Saudi Arabian forces have replaced Egyptian troops on Tiran Island, marking the first step in the handover over of two Red Sea islands ceded to the Persian Gulf kingdom in a 2016 border…

North Korea’s ceremonial leader will make an unprecedented visit to South Korea this week, officials said on Monday, as hopes grow for high-level inter-Korean talks during the Winter Olympics…

Aid agencies have warned that hundreds of thousands of Syrians are at risk of being pushed to return in 2018, despite ongoing violence in the Middle Eastern country.

Azerbaijan’s leader Ilham Aliyev on Monday called a surprise snap presidential election for April 11, six months ahead of schedule, without providing an immediate explanation for the move. “Set…

A Bahraini prince has visited Tel Aviv and met with an Israeli minister, in the latest sign the Persian Gulf state could normalize relations with Israel.

Prince Mubarak Al Khalifa on…

American troops have started to draw down from Iraq following Baghdad’s declaration of victory over the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group last year, according to western contractors at a…

Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the first visit by a Turkish president to see the pope in the Vatican in 59 years on Monday as Rome was put under heavy security measures for fear of violent…

A crash between an Amtrak passenger train and a CSX freight train in US South Carolina on Sunday killed two people and injured about 70 others, authorities said.

The Amtrak train was…

Italy heads to the polls next month to vote in a crowded general election—against a backdrop of populist gains in Europe—and the shadow of ex-leader Silvio Berlusconi still looms large.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a controversial memo attacking federal law enforcement written by congressional Republicans vindicates him in the investigation of Russian…

As a new round of talks opens between Britain and the European Union, British Prime Minister Theresa May is under mounting pressure to take sides in the Conservative Party’s war over Brexit.