Pedernales/Quito (Ecuador): Ecuador will temporarily increase some taxes, sell assets, and may issue new bonds on the international market to fund a...
Juba: South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar was sworn in as first vice president on Tuesday, hours after he returned to the capital of Juba for the first...
Baghdad: Iraqi Members of Parliament (MPs) disrupted a parliament session on Tuesday, blocking Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi from presenting a new cabinet...
Benghazi: A government based in eastern Libya shipped its first cargo of crude on Monday in defiance of authorities in the capital Tripoli, a bold move that...
London: The famous chimes of Big Ben will fall silent next year as the 160-year-old parliamentary clock tower undergoes essential repairs as part of a £29...
London: Junior doctors in England began their first all-out strike in the nearly 70-year history of the National Health Service (NHS) on Tuesday, a dramatic...
Istanbul: The United States will deploy a rocket launcher system in Turkey near the border with a part of Syria held by IS, Turkey's foreign minister...
Abu Dhabi/Hasaka (Syria): Syria's war has destroyed agricultural infrastructure and fractured the state system that provides farmers with seeds and buys...
Istanbul/Ankara: A call by Turkey's parliament speaker for a new constitution to drop references to secularism provoked opposition condemnation and a...
Beirut: Attacks by government forces and rebels killed at least 30 people, including eight children, in the last 24 hours in Aleppo, a city seeing some of...