A panel of experts advising Japan’s government on a disposal method for radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant has recommended releasing it into the ocean, a move likel... Read more

The New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, says the Australian state has experienced “another difficult day” as multiple emergency fires burned across its south-east. While five emerge... Read more

The University of York said it has been advised by Public Health England that the risk of the infection being passed on to other people on campus is low. A spokesman for the university said:... Read more

The US Senate voted against hearing witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump on Friday, paving the way for Trump’s acquittal on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congres... Read more

The US Senate voted on Friday against calling witnesses and collecting new evidence in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, clearing the way for Trump’s almost certain acquittal next... Read more

Singing patriotic songs and waving Union Jack flags, thousands of Britons flocked to a muddy patch of grass outside parliament on a damp Friday night to watch their moment of history: Britai... Read more

Yemen’s Houthi militia are in possession of new weapons similar to those produced in Iran, according to a UN report obtained by AFP on Friday, in potential violation of a UN arms embargo. So... Read more

Arab foreign ministers are meeting Saturday in Egypt’s capital to discuss a White House plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that would grant the Palestinians limited self-rule i... Read more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised a “new era of friendly cooperation” with the European Union on Friday as Britain prepared to leave the bloc after almost five decades. In a public addre... Read more

Mohamed Abdel-Ghaffar   Qatar is desperate to gain any political weight in the region and play a role greater than its size, but with its failure to achieve this through known diplomati... Read more

Syria’s last opposition-held province has been battered with 200 airstrikes in the past three days in an assault that has pushed 700,000 civilians to flee towards the Turkish border and spar... Read more

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) has condemned the looting of food supplies from a UN warehouse in Yemen’s Hajjah governorate, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) repor... Read more

Turkey may launch a military operation into Syria’s northwestern Idlib province if the situation is not resolved immediately, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday as attacks by S... Read more

  Robert el-Fares   Armed militias raided and attacked a number of villages in areas north of Jebel Marra in the state of Central Darfur, western Sudan, and caused the displacement... Read more