US Security Council called on Huthi rebels to allow inspectors to visit a long-abandoned fuel tanker.UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The United Nations Security Council called on Huthi rebels to allow inspecto...
For the first time in Israeli's history, the embryonic coalition also includes an Arab Israeli party.JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel was approaching the end of an era after the last-minute formation of a mot...
Joe Biden on Thursday expanded a blacklist of Chinese firms that are off-limits to US investors.
.WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Thursday expanded a blacklist of Chinese firms that ar...
Joe Biden outlined his plan Thursday for the first of 80 million coronavirus vaccine doses.
.WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Joe Biden outlined his plan Thursday for the first of 80 million coronaviru...
India battles a vicious second wave of infections that has killed 160,000 people in eight weeks.
.BANGALORE (AFP) - Wrapped in white cloth and marked only by numbered stickers, dozens of clay pots ...
Four people were killed in that blast, and four others wounded.
.KABUL (AFP) - At least eight people were killed and nine others wounded Thursday in two bomb blasts targeting minibuses in Kabul, ac...
Of the first tranche of 25 million doses, the White House said about 19 million will go to COVAX.WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Thursday the U.S. will donate 75% of its unused C...
Sri Lankan officials brace for oil spill from sinking ship.COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankan authorities said Thursday they are preparing for the worst-case scenario of a possible oil slick from the burnt-ou...
India records 134,154 new COVID-19 cases over past 24 hours.NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India announced on Thursday 134,154 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, while deaths from the coronavirus ...
Rouhani is Iran's main architect of the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers.
.TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran s President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday a breakthrough in talks in Vienna to revive a n...
Israel's opposition leader said he had succeeded in forming a coalition to end rule of Netanyahu.
.JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel s opposition leader Yair Lapid said late Wednesday he had succeeded ...
US military took responsibility for killing 23 civilians in foreign war zones in 2020.
.WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US military on Wednesday took responsibility for unintentionally killing 23 civilians ...
White House says Biden will bring up US concerns during the meeting with Putin on June 16.
.WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he is "looking" at possible retaliatio...
A fire raged at a Tehran oil refinery after a leak in a liquefied gas line triggered an explosion.
.TEHRAN (AFP) - A fire raged Wednesday at a southern Tehran oil refinery after a leak in a liquefi...
The vessel sank near the Iranian port of Jask.TEHRAN (AP) — The largest warship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, the late...
Covid-19 "has not just been a public health crisis, it's also been an employment and human crisis".GENEVA (AFP) - The pandemic has pushed over 100 million more workers into poverty, the UN said Wednes...
Iran's nuclear negotiator said barriers to revival of deal are complicated but not insurmountable.VIENNA (Reuters) - The remaining parties to the Iran nuclear deal will meet in Vienna on Wednesday, th...
Labor veteran Herzog elected Israel's 11th president.JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel elected the even-keeled Labor veteran Isaac Herzog as its 11th president Wednesday, a parliamentary vote that coincidental...
