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British Prime Minister Theresa May held talks with Saudi officials on Tuesday, hoping to tap the oil-rich kingdom's "immense potential" ...

The EU and China will attempt to deepen ties at a summit Thursday amid rising worry about the direction taken ...

Norway says it "regrets" Qatar's expulsion of a Saudi Arabian human rights activist on his way to claim refugee status ...

A South Sudan military court on Tuesday opened the trial of 13 soldiers accused of raping foreign aid workers and ...

Egypt's president has signed into law a contentious new bill to regulate non-governmental organisations, the official gazette said on Monday, ...

Qatar has deported a Saudi human rights activist who was on his way to Norway where he hoped to seek ...

Philippine boxing icon Manny Pacquiao gave staunch support for President Rodrigo Duterte's martial law declaration on Monday, saying the country ...

Myanmar authorities must investigate a video showing men in military uniforms viciously beating handcuffed detainees suspected of being ethnic rebel ...

The president of the Philippines has come under fire for joking about rape in a speech to soldiers. While speaking ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte came under fire Saturday for making a second joke about rape, with Chelsea Clinton leading online ...

Rights groups on Friday accused the Ugandan government of inaction over the deadly assault by security forces on a tribal ...

Egypt's Copts, targeted by gunmen Friday as they travelled in a bus to a monastery south of Cairo, are the ...

Forces led by Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar on Thursday seized control of the Tamenhant airbase in the south of ...

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas executed three people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday over the assassination of one of ...

Myanmar authorities have detained a Turkish family and are trying to deport them to Turkey, where activists fear they will ...

A 14-year-old boy has been detained in a Thai army prison under a draconian and increasingly wielded royal defamation law, ...

Forces loyal to Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar have bombed rival forces in retaliation for a deadly attack on an ...

A court in the Gaza Strip on Sunday sentenced three men to death over the assassination of a Hamas military ...

There were emotional scenes Saturday as 82 kidnapped Chibok girls released by Boko Haram Islamists earlier this month were reunited ...

Afghanistan's embattled vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum has left for Turkey, officials said Saturday, in what could be another long ...