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ICJ finding of a “plausible genocide” in Gaza, and subsequent ruling that Israel is responsible for an apartheid system in the West Bank and East Jerusalem would not have surprised former US Presidents
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Conflicts raging around the world, including in Gaza, are heightening the possibility of a nuclear war, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize warned, renewing calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanon Tuesday it could face destruction “like Gaza” as Israel ramps up its ground offensive against Hezbollah along the southern section of the Lebanese coast.
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Israel has repeatedly pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs over the last two weeks but Thursday’s raid was only the third time the city center has been targeted killing an unspecified number of civilians.
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A Saudi university student who had returned home for a vacation was sentenced to 34 years in prison for following and retweeting dissidents and activists on her personal Twitter account.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid homage to all those who lost their lives during partition, and applauded the resilience as well as grit of those who suffered during that tragic period of history.
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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has once again commended India for its independent foreign policy as he slammed the West for being critical of India for buying Russian oil.
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Author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York. Rushdie' agent, Andrew Wylie, confirmed the information.
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Israeli jets have pounded the besieged Gaza Strip for a second day following a wave of air strikes on the coastal enclave that killed at least 15 people, including a five-year-old girl.
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Authorities in Tajikistan are putting the squeeze on organizations and companies controlled by the Aga Khan, the Europe-based philanthropist deemed by the Shia Ismailis of the country’s eastern Pamirs region as leader.
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The Israeli army continued its offensive campaign on the Gaza Strip into the night of 5 August, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens more. Palestinian resistance groups launched dozens of rockets in retaliation
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would set up a bench to hear a batch of pleas challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict refusing to lift the ban on hijab in educational institutions of the state, and added one of
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Yemen's warring parties have reportedly agreed to reopen the airport in the capital Sana'a, which was shuttered last year after numerous attacks by Saudi Arabia.
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Time magazine has named Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi dissident journalist killed in the kingdom’s diplomatic mission in Istanbul in October, as its “Person of the Year” for 2018.
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Brussels will create an alternative payment channel to facilitate financial transactions between the European Union and Iran and bypass the US sanctions in the near future, the EU’s top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, said
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Sudan and Oman have opened their respective airspace for overflights by Israeli aircraft, Times of Israel reported on Monday.
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Twenty million people in war-torn Yemen are hungry — a staggering 70 per cent of the population and a 15 per cent increase from last year — and for the first time 250,000 are facing.
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A former senior adviser to Yasser Arafat, the late leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), has said that Arafat's death was not natural and he was actually assassinated, with Saudi Arabia.
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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said US sanctions were “economic terrorism”, as he sought to foster a united front from visiting regional officials on Saturday.
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Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's chief financial officer faces US accusations that she covered up her company's links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran despite sanctions, a Canadian.
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan in his first foreign interview to the Washington Post has told President Donald Trump that Pakistan is not US’ hired gun anymore.
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Arab nations outmanoeuvred the United States at the UN to defeat a resolution it sponsored condemning Hamas by requiring a two-thirds majority for it to pass, rather than the simple majority it received.
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Peace talks between the Yemeni government and rebels, aimed at ending four years of warthat has pushed 14 million people to the brink of famine, were due to open Thursday in Sweden.
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A top executive and daughter of the founder of Chinese telecom giant Huawei has been arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the United States, officials said Thursday, angering Beijing.
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