Noura Bendary The Houthi militias are perpetrating terrorist operations to tighten their grip on the Yemeni institutions. On Dec. 18, the Houthi militias attacked clothes stores and burned t... Read more

The New Zealand gun buy back ends today. The very fact that semi-automatic weapons are now prohibited and the buyback took place is a success. Politicians, supported by 70% of the public, ar... Read more

The Duke of Edinburgh has spent the night in hospital after being admitted for treatment relating to a pre-existing condition. He is expected to spend the run-up to Christmas in the care of... Read more

Britain has taken a pivotal step towards leaving the European Union as Boris Johnson was rewarded for the Conservatives’ thumping general election victory with a majority of 124 for his Brex... Read more

Nancy Pelosi promised as speaker she would “show the power of the gavel”. This year, she laid it out for all to see. The past week alone, the Democratic leader delivered a $1.4tn government... Read more

Russia, backed by China, on Friday cast its 14th UN Security Council veto since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011 to block cross-border aid deliveries from Turkey and Iraq to millions... Read more

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday briefed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tokyo’s plan to send naval forces to the Middle East to protect Japanese vessels, a Japanese official... Read more

Lebanon’s new Hezbollah-backed Prime Minister-designate Hassan Diab said in an interview with Al Hadath that his appointment was constitutional and that he would not have trouble receiving W... Read more

UAE’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash on Friday reiterated Saudi Arabia’s stance on the Malaysian summit in Kuala Lumpur, saying that the meeting was the wrong forum to d... Read more

An Imam from Montpellier invited Tariq Ramadan to deliver a lecture at the end of this year titled “Personal and collective adversity”. Muhammad Khattabi (the imam of the Aisha Mosque) is on... Read more

  Shaima Hefzy   The continent of Asia is the second area that ISIS threatens after Europe during Christmas and the organization has managed to build branches for it and recruit ne... Read more

  Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar   Qatar found its ambitions in Iran, and vice versa, and the rapprochement between the two sides increased after the Arab Quartet of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, U... Read more

Canadian police were prepared to shoot Indigenous land defenders blockading construction of a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia, according to documents seen by the Guardian.... Read more

Scott Morrison has apologised for going on holiday while Australia is in the grip of an extended bushfire crisis and a record-breaking heatwave. In a statement on Friday morning the prime mi... Read more

Hong Kong police have frozen HK$70m ($10m) from a major fund to help pro-democracy protesters, and arrested its four members, accusing them of money laundering. Police said their investigati... Read more