Bolivia appointed its first ambassador to the US in 11 years on Wednesday, officials said, as the interim government resets the country’s foreign policy after the departure of Evo Morales. W... Read more

Iraqi officials said Wednesday that three protesters were killed and 35 wounded by security forces in southern Iraq after the previous day’s sit-ins and road closures, raising the death toll... Read more

Russia plans to sign a new contract with Turkey to supply its S-400 surface-to-air missile systems in the first half of 2020, the RIA Novosti news agency reported citing the head of Russian... Read more

A group of Hezbollah supporters attacked demonstrators protesting against Lebanon’s political elite in central Beirut late Sunday, triggering confrontations as security forces separated the... Read more

Egypt has postponed the launch of its first communication satellite into orbit for technical reasons. Tiba-1 was due to launch at 2108 GMT on Friday on one of Europe’s Arianespace rock... Read more

Deaths related to measles have risen to 20 in the past week on the Pacific island of Samoa, the government has said, eight days after declaring a state of emergency over the outbreak. The is... Read more

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have arrested about 100 leaders of the protests that erupted last week over gasoline price rises, Gholamhossein Esmaili, spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, said on F... Read more

At least 10 people were killed and 20 others injured on Saturday in a car bomb blast in the Syrian border town of Tal Abyad controlled by Turkish forces, Syrian state media reported. The rep... Read more

Iranian troops and members of the elite Revolutionary Guards helped police quell violent unrest in Kermanshah province this week, Iranian officials said on Saturday, accusing “U.S. agents” o... Read more

The United States imposed sanctions on Iran’s information minister on Friday for his role in “widescale internet censorship,” a reference to a five-day-long nationwide shutdown meant to help... Read more

Moving away now from the Brexit party’s “contract” launch to the unveiling of Plaid Cymru’s manifesto. Adam Price, the party’s leader, struck a defiantly hopeful and optimistic mood at the l... Read more

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Iranians on Thursday to send photos and other information documenting repression amid ongoing protests, while vowing to sanction “abuses” by the Islam... Read more

The recent anti-government protests in Iran resembled a “full-fledged world war” against Iran involving a “satanic coalition” of foreign powers, said a senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Rev... Read more

Apple has caused a stir by abruptly canceling the world premiere of its film The Banker at the AFI Festival in Hollywood on Wednesday. The Banker is based on the true-life story of two black... Read more