Saudi king to make week-long domestic tour amid Khashoggi crisis

2018/11/04 21:53:04

Saudi Arabia's King Salman will embark on a week-long domestic tour on Tuesday, a senior government ...

Sri Lanka's president summons parliament on Nov. 14 as pressure over PM's sacking grows

2018/11/04 19:35:59

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has ordered the suspended parliament to reconvene on Nov. ...

Islamic State says hits Syria's Raqqa with car bomb

2018/11/04 17:53:31

A car bomb exploded near a military position in Syria's Raqqa on Sunday, local authorities and a war...

Merkel's conservatives quarrel over party's course once she steps down

2018/11/04 12:09:24

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) argued on Sunday over whether they shoul...

'No' vote well ahead in New Caledonia independence referendum

2018/11/04 11:56:23

The French archipelago of New Caledonia in the South Pacific voted 59.5 percent against independence...

Egypt says 19 militants killed in security operation after attack on Christians

2018/11/04 11:20:18

Egyptian security forces killed 19 Islamist militants from a cell believed to be responsible for an ...

UK PM May's former senior adviser, Jeremy Heywood, dies aged 56

2018/11/04 10:59:22

Jeremy Heywood, the former head of Britain's civil service and a senior adviser to Prime Minister Th...

Sri Lanka's ousted PM says U.S., Japan freeze aid over political crisis

2018/11/04 10:01:51

Sri Lanka's deposed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the United States and Japan had frozen ...

U.N. aid trucks reach remote Rukban camp in Syria: local source

2018/11/04 19:50:31

A United Nations aid convoy on Saturday reached the Rukban refugee camp in Syria where thousands of ...

Iraqi Kurds say upgrade raises oil pipeline capacity to 1 million bpd

2018/11/04 18:35:25

An oil export pipeline in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region has been upgraded to a capacity of 1...

Myanmar by-election results 'a lesson' for Suu Kyi's party

2018/11/04 12:14:55

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) expects to have won only seven of 13 seats up...

Italian storms claim more victims as death toll rises to at least 29

2018/11/04 12:01:17

At least 12 people have been killed by severe weather on the island of Sicily, bringing the overall ...

Indonesia extends search for jet crash victims, second black box

2018/11/04 11:25:50

Indonesian authorities on Sunday extended by three days the search for victims and a black box from ...

Qatar reshuffles cabinet, boards of Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Investment Authority

2018/11/04 11:04:51

Qatar appointed the heads of its biggest bank and state-run oil firm to two key ministerial posts in...

Husband of freed Pakistani Christian woman appeals to Trump for refuge

2018/11/04 10:57:50

The husband of a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted after spending eight years on death row on char...