Negotiations held in Cairo to reach a ceasefire in Gaza were on the verge of a "significant breakthrough," two Egyptian security sources told Reuters on Monday. There was no immediate comment from ...

Lights flickered back to life in Spain and Portugal early Tuesday after a massive blackout hit the Iberian peninsula stranding passengers in trains and hundreds of elevators while millions saw phone ...

Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Israel of committing a "live-streamed genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza by forcibly displacing most of the population and deliberately creating a ...

The United States has lost seven multi-million-dollar MQ-9 Reaper drones in the Yemen area since 15 March, a US official said Monday, as the Navy announced a costly warplane fell off an aircraft ...

Catholic cardinals agreed on Monday to begin a conclave on 7 May to elect a new pope, and highlighted clerical sexual abuse as one of the key challenges facing Pope Francis's successor. Cardinals ...

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday started its hearings, expected to last five days, centred on Israel's obligations to Palestinians in Gaza amid growing malnutrition, bombardment, and ...

Israeli forces killed at least 23 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn on Monday as attacks intensified around the enclave, medical sources said. At the same time, the UN confirmed that food supplies have ...

An F/A-18 fighter jet slipped off the hanger deck of an aircraft carrier deployed to the Middle East, as sailors were towing the aircraft into place in the hangar bay of the USS Harry S. Truman on ...

A rare 1970 audio recording of a conversation between former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has gone viral this week, reigniting debate over Arab unity, the ...

The tomb of former Syrian president and longtime dictator Hafez al-Assad in the city of Qardaha, western Syria, has reportedly been exhumed, with his remains moved to an undisclosed location, ...

Sudanese paramilitaries executed at least 31 civilians, including children, in the capital’s twin city of Omdurman, local medics said on Sunday. It was "the largest documented mass killing in the ...

Houthi rebel-controlled media in Yemen said Monday that US strikes targeted a migrant detention centre in the movement's stronghold of Saada, killing at least 68 people. The US military has hammered ...