DUBAI: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad held talks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Friday,

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Saturday issued a new constitution for the Vatican’s central administration

WASHINGTON: Chinese President Xi Jinping told his counterpart Joe Biden in a video

UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council voted on Thursday to establish formal ties

TEHRAN: An Emirati cargo ship sank in Gulf waters off Iran, triggering a search and rescue

KYIV: New talk of compromise from both Moscow and Kyiv on a status for Ukraine outside

NEW YORK: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday adopted by consensus

COLOMBO: A huge crowd tried to storm the Sri Lankan president’s seaside office on

BANGALORE: An Indian court upheld a local ban on wearing the hijab in classrooms on Tuesday,

CHONBURI: Nearly 60 elephants enjoyed a huge fruit banquet at a Thai botanical park on Sunday

ARBIL: Iran claimed responsibility for a missile strike on Sunday on the northern Iraqi city of Arbil,

PARIS: The French government has announced a package worth two billion euros ($2.2bn)

VIENNA: Iran and world powers on Friday paused negotiations on reviving a 2015 nuclear

LVIV: Russia widened its offensive in Ukraine on Friday, striking airfields in the west and an industrial city

MONTREAL: Blogger Raif Badawi was released from a Saudi prison after spending 10 years

TEHRAN: Iran on Thursday accused the United States of working to “complicate” efforts to restore

BUDAPEST: The Hungarian parliament on Thursday elected Katalin Novak, a close

NEW DELHI: With the counting of votes for the current cluster of five state assembly

WASHINGTON: The first person to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig has

ANKARA: Israel’s president met Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday,