An Egyptian court on Sunday jailed 56 people for taking part in a 2013 protest by Muslim Brotherhood supporters that was brutally dispersed by the authorities, a judicial source said. Security forces...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday hosted the head of the internationally-recognised Libyan government, Fayez al-Sarraj, for talks on finding a solution to the country's crisis. During a trip...More
Thousands of Algerian students joined the first rally of Ramadan on Tuesday, pressing on with weeks of protests against the ruling elite after president Abdelaziz Bouteflika quit. Wearing national...More
The influential brother of former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and two generals once in charge of intelligence have been jailed while under investigation for plotting against the state, a...More
The United States will deploy a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East to send a "clear and unmistakeable message" to Iran, National Security Adviser John Bolton said late on...More
As the black-clad rapper spat lyrics into the microphone on stage, the Iraqi boys below beat their chests in mourning. He was, after all, paying homage to slain Shia figurehead Hussein. The ear-...More
Palestinian leaders in Gaza agreed a ceasefire with Israel early on Monday, three officials with knowledge of the talks said, after the most serious flare-up since a 2014 war. Egypt brokered an...More
Sri Lanka has expelled over 600 foreign nationals, including around 200 Islamic clerics, since the Easter suicide bombings blamed on a local jihadist group, a minister told journalists on Sunday...More
Sudanese mediators have proposed two transitional bodies in a bid to break a deadlock in talks on a power handover from the military rulers to civilians, a protest leader said on Sunday. The army and...More
Brunei's sultan has announced death by stoning for gay sex and adultery will not be enforced after a global backlash, but critics on Monday called for harsh Sharia laws to be abandoned entirely. In a...More
Shoppers throng Tripoli's Souk al-Hout market, but their mood is sombre as Libya's capital is again hit by violence and prices have shot up ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. "Our country is...More
Shortly before India's mammoth elections began in April, New Delhi did something unprecedented: it banned civilian traffic on the only major highway connecting the heart of disputed Kashmir with the...More
Sudan's prosecutor general has ordered the questioning of ousted president Omar al-Bashir over money-laundering and "financing terrorism", the official SUNA news agency said on Thursday. "The acting...More
Turkey's highest court on Thursday ruled that the authorities had violated the human rights of two journalists critical of President Tayyip Erdogan following an attempted coup in 2016. The...More
Mervat al-Neel was one of the many women whose protests helped bring down Sudanese autocrat Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Now she is standing up to the generals who replaced him. After decades of oppression...More
After years of meagre rains and scorching summers, the wettest winter in a generation has revived Iraq's famous rivers and filled its lakes, bringing welcome relief to a country facing severe water...More
Their Uighur wives vanished in 2017, swept up in a Chinese dragnet tackling Islamic extremism, now they've been released – but the Pakistani husbands left behind say freedom has come at a price: The...More
Turkish police said they detained 137 people in Istanbul on Wednesday for trying to hold illegal demonstrations in various parts of the city to celebrate May Day. Police had cordoned off Istanbul's...More
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's re-election bid received a big fillip on Wednesday after a U.N. Security Council committee blacklisted Masood Azhar, the head of a Pakistan-based militant group...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised aid this week to strengthen security in jihadist-hit Burkina Faso after arriving in the West African country. Merkel, who also attended a G5 meeting of Sahel...More
President Donald Trump is seeking to blacklist the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, a far-reaching step that would place the United States firmly on the side of its authoritarian allies in...More
On his election, Fatih Macoglu's first move as mayor of his Turkish city was to knock down the walls around his office as a symbol of his transparency. He refuses to use his official car and has...More
Chinese police are using a mobile app to store data on 13 million ethnic minority Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang province, Human Rights Watch revealed in a new report on Thursday. The...More
Religious tensions and a government ban on covering the face since the Easter Sunday suicide attacks have forced conservative Muslim women in Sri Lanka to shun veils, headscarves and long robes in...More
Sudanese demonstrators are expected to stage a "million-strong" march on Thursday to press for a civilian administration after talks with military rulers hit a snag. The two sides have agreed on...More
Algeria's army chief called on Wednesday for dialogue between protesters and state institutions, a day after pushing back against demonstrators' demands for top politicians to quit. "I remain...More
At least 376 people were killed last month in fighting near the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported on Wednesday. The United Nations agency called for an immediate...More
Algeria needs six months to prepare free elections, a protest leader said on Saturday and called for the transition from 20 years of rule by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be managed by a former...More
Sudanese protesters welcomed a breakthrough in talks with army rulers on Sunday. The latter agreed to form a joint civilian-military council, paving the way for the civilian administration demanded...More
Iran's economy is expected to shrink for the second consecutive year and inflation could reach 40 percent, an International Monetary Fund senior official said, as the country copes with the impact of...More
For four hours, Khadeja begged her in-laws to take her to the hospital. The skin on her face and neck was peeling. The pain was excruciating. Her husband had thrown a pot of scalding water on her...More
French authorities have opened an investigation into the leaking of a classified military note which revealed French weapons are being used by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in Yemen,...More
Human Rights Watch says the referendum approved by Egyptian voters that would allow President Abdul-Fattah al-Sisi to extend his rule to 2030 was held in an "unfair and unfree" environment and has "...More
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday announced a ban on face covering, a week after Islamist militants carried out co-ordinated suicide bombings that killed 253 people. Sirisena said...More
The United States must be prepared for consequences if it tries to stop Iran from selling oil and using the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned on Wednesday, while...More
Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the bomb attacks in Sri Lanka that killed 321 people in what officials believe was retaliation for assaults on mosques in New Zealand. The claim,...More
A former prime minister and close ally of President Tayyip Erdogan strongly criticized the ruling AK Party on Monday, blaming policy changes and an alliance with nationalists for its poor performance...More
Indonesia's Joko Widodo was on track to be re-elected leader of the world's third-biggest democracy as unofficial results put him in a comfortable lead over firebrand ex-general Prabowo Subianto...More
"When we arrived here, there were TV crews and photographers, but now nobody comes," said Abdallah, amazed to see a journalist turn up at his Sudanese refugee camp in Chad. He fled over the border...More
Hundreds of Algerians rallied on Wednesday outside the offices of the country's biggest union, calling for its chief to quit over his ties to ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. "Free the union,"...More
Egypt on Wednesday set a referendum for 20-22 April on sweeping constitutional changes including amendments that could extend President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's rule until 2030. The push to extend the...More
Islamic officials in Malaysia have launched an investigation into a public event that discussed women who stop wearing the hijab, according to a group of female activists who spoke at the forum. The...More
Voting began in the second phase of India's general elections on Thursday amid massive security and a lockdown in parts of the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Srinagar is one of 97...More
Turkey's main opposition candidate took office as Istanbul mayor on Wednesday after a stunning victory over President Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party, but the new head of the country's largest city still...More
United Nations Security Council diplomats began negotiations on Tuesday on a British-drafted resolution that would demand an immediate ceasefire in Libya after forces loyal to commander Khalifa...More
Eleven Saudi women's rights activists were due back in court on Wednesday in a trial that has drawn international criticism, just days after campaigners reported a new crackdown on their supporters...More
Weeks of anti-government protests have helped Algerian journalists shake off the chokehold of state-imposed censorship, but their work remains complicated and is often contested by demonstrators...More
The head of Sudan's ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) has fired the country's three highest-ranking public prosecutors, the council said on Tuesday, after protesters demanded an overhaul of...More
Tens of millions of Indonesians voted in presidential and legislative elections Wednesday after a campaign that pitted the moderate incumbent against an ultranationalist former general whose fear-...More
The protesters in Sudan wave national flags, chant "freedom" and bang plastic drums in the sweltering summer heat, while others man makeshift clinics or prepare meals for fellow demonstrators. For...More
U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar, who is engaged in an intensifying feud with President Donald Trump, has raised nearly $830,000 in the first quarter for her re-election campaign, according to campaign...More
A community of Syrians who converted to Christianity from Islam is growing in Kobani, a town besieged by Islamic State for months and where the tide turned against the militants four years ago. The...More
The Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa has just had its sixth Car-Free Day, a monthly initiative launched by the government to encourage non-motorised transportation and fight air pollution. By Maria Gerth-Niculescu
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