The Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has asked President Moon Jae-in of South Korea to take steps to resolve the two countries’ bitter dispute. The leaders met in China on Wednesday for... Read more

Notre Dame Cathedral was unable to hold Christmas Eve mass for the first time in more than 200 years after a fire ravaged its structure in April. French Catholics instead gathered at the chu... Read more

In mid-December, a month and a half into protests that have crippled Lebanon and placed its political class in the dock, a priest caused a stir by telling his congregation to start stockpili... Read more

Turkey may need to draft a bill to allow for troop deployment to Libya and its parliament is working on the issue, Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Tuesday, after Ankara signed a... Read more

Iraq’s parliament approved on Tuesday a new electoral law, a key demand of protesters to make elections fairer, but political deadlock is still holding up the selection of an interim prime m... Read more

Asmaa al-Batakoshi The Ennahda Movement, the Muslim Brotherhood branch in Tunisia, came across a series of failures in 2019. The movement failed in convincing the Tunisian parliament to pass... Read more

Nour Bendary Iran’s ties with Yemen’s Houthi militias have become evident as Tehran is strengthening the terrorist militias with all means of support. Tehran is working on empowering the Hou... Read more

Asmaa Al-Batakoshi   Tunisia’s Dignity Coalition, which won 21 seats in the 217-member parliament, has been experiencing a wave of splits within its rows,  as three of its members resig... Read more

Fatma Abdel-Ghany   A global money laundering watchdog said Turkish authorities must address shortcomings in tackling money laundering and terrorism financing or face being added to a “... Read more

The Queen will use her Christmas message to say 2019 has been “quite bumpy”, after she was drawn into a constitutional crisis by Boris Johnson and Prince Andrew was forced to withdraw from p... Read more

A secret court in Uzbekistan is poised to sentence a retired career diplomat to up to 20 years in prison on a treason charge that his family says is the result of repression and a broken jus... Read more

A London youth club credited with saving children from rising knife violence is facing calls for its closure from new residents who think it would be better used as a coffee shop. The Bollo... Read more

London is expected to co-host the next stage of post-Brexit negotiations with Brussels in a symbolic shift marking the UK’s position outside the EU after 31 January. The most likely location... Read more

A new wave of mercenaries from Sudan is fighting in Libya, deepening concerns that the conflict in the north African state has descended into an intractable international war that could dest... Read more

Nora Bandari   The mullah regime in Tehran is working in every way to exploit any event that would enable it to emerge from its economic crisis. This prompted Iranian President Hassan R... Read more