Romania's Simona Halep on Friday rounded on the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) for discrepencies in the treatment of world number two Iga Swiatek after testing positive for a banned ...

France's special envoy on Friday said it was urgent for Lebanon to elect a president, after a parliamentary vote to end over two years without a head of state was announced for January.

Jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies shelled Syria's second city Aleppo on Friday, in a major offensive against ...

China on Friday said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will visit next week. "German Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will visit China from December 2 to 3," foreign ministry ...

Russia said Friday it had seized the village of Rozdolne in the southern part of Ukraine's Donbas region, where it has made a string of advances in recent months.

Hong Kong property developer New World Development said on Friday that Eric Ma will step down as chief executive officer after having spent just two months on the job.

A special international court on Friday ordered a former Kosovo rebel commander to pay $220,000 euros in damages to victims of abuses suffered in 1999 during the Serbian province's struggle for ...

The Gaza Strip has descended into anarchy, with hunger soaring, looting rampant and rising numbers of rapes in shelters as public order falls apart, the United Nations said on Friday.

Syrian jihadists and their Turkish-backed allies reached the outskirts of the northern city of Aleppo Friday after staging two car bomb attacks, as they pressed a major offensive against government ...

Israel extended for one year a waiver allowing Israeli banks to work with Palestinian ones just days before it was due to expire, threatening to paralyse Palestinians financial institutions.

A Syrian government security official told AFP Friday that army reinforcements arrived in Aleppo as jihadists advanced towards the main northern city after launching a major offensive on northwestern ...

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Thursday that at least 44,363 people have been killed in more than 13 months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants.