Yemen’s government has agreed to allow Houthi-issued passport holders to travel outside Yemen, three officials said on Thursday, removing a major obstacle that had stalled resumption...
Police have smashed a group believed to have smuggled tens of thousands of Syrians with two of them found suffocated in a van last year, Austria’s...
Taliban authorities have banned men and women from dining out together and visiting parks at the same time in the western Afghan city of Herat, an...
With parliamentary elections in Lebanon happening on May 15, opposition candidates are pushing hard to break through the sectarian-dominated status quo of Lebanese politics, capitalizing on...
Turkey’s supreme court of appeals on Thursday upheld a prison sentence for the head of the Istanbul branch of the country’s main opposition party, a party...
The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in Europe, the long-time epicenter of the pandemic, has passed two million, the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Switzerland has frozen $6.3 billion in Russian assets to date, the government said as it responds to criticism that it should be doing more to block...
France said on Thursday that two of its citizens have been arrested in Iran and demanded they be freed immediately. “The French government condemns this baseless...
China said Thursday it was ready to “fully support” North Korea in its pandemic prevention efforts after Pyongyang reported its first official COVID-19 case and declared...
Sweden’s government plans to submit an application to join NATO next week, following neighbor Finland in re-writing its post-World War Two security policy in the wake...
Three people were killed and 12 others wounded on Thursday in a Russian strike on a town in Ukraine’s northern Chernigiv region, the emergency services told...