World

ESSEN (Germany): A senior German conservative has warned Facebook it could face fines if it fails to act faster to tackle online hate speech, and he said...

Baghdad: IS militants attacked Iraqi soldiers near a hospital in southeast Mosul on Wednesday, an army officer and the militant group's new agency said,...

WASHINGTON: Time Magazine named US President-elect Donald Trump its person of the year on Wednesday, citing the upheaval in American politics brought about...

Beirut: Syrian rebels in besieged eastern Aleppo called on Wednesday for an immediate five-day ceasefire and the evacuation of civilians and wounded, but...

LONDON:The British parliament was set to back Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit timetable on Wednesday after she headed off a rebellion in her...

Sarajevo: Bosnian banks, food producers and hoteliers are adopting halal standards to tap a fast-growing market thanks to the country's large Muslim...

Occupied Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's support for a bill that would legalise Israeli settlement homes on private Palestinian land in...

Baghdad: Iraq's parliament approved the 2017 budget on Wednesday, lawmakers said, but a member of the Kurdish KDP said his party stayed away from the...

Shibin El Kom (Egypt): Egypt's beekeepers say their hives are under threat because of a shortage of sugar, as are the flowers and crops that their bees...

Cairo: Egypt's cabinet on Wednesday approved an amendment to a law that bans protests, making it more difficult for the Interior Ministry to disperse...