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ADL and progressive Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit Politico over illustration of Bernie Sanders they say is anti-Semitic....

Clashes between inmates killed 15 people at a jail in Amazonas state in northern Brazil on Sunday....

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It's a relatively slow start to the week. No major shocks from the EU elections left the EUR and GBP supported early on....

Iranian foreign minister has offered to sign non-aggression agreements with all countries in the Persian Gulf region....

It's not just about being blessed or cursed, but about understanding the intricate cause-and-effect system that runs this world....

A selection of photos shot recently from around the world:...

Hassan Rouhani suggests the country could hold a referendum over its nuclear program amid unraveling deal with world powers....

Clashes between inmates killed 15 people at a jail in Amazonas state in northern Brazil on Sunday, the regional prison authority said.The clashes...

Labour Party leader proposes that Britons be given a new say on Brexit, whether through a general election or another referendum....

General Security has returned the body of a Lebanese man allegedly killed by the Syrian regime in the countryside around the border town of Arsal to Lebanese territory, a source from Arsal Municipality told The Daily Star Sunday....

Giving up tests means relinquishing right to self defence, Pyongyang says in response to US national security adviser....

PLO Executive Committee calls on world to boycott US-led economic workshop that will be held in Manama next month....

US President Donald Trump on Monday held out the possibility of negotiations with Iran as he met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is...

Netanyahu's party vows to take first step on Monday to trigger fresh elections; Liberman insists he won't avert snap polls by joining coalitionNetanyahu's party vows to take first step on Monday to trigger fresh elections; Liberman insists he ...

US National Security Adviser John Bolton is a ldquo;war fanaticrdquo; who was wrong to conclude that North Korearsquo;s recent missile tests...

Jordan's Foreign Minister says Israeli-Arab conflict is still the major issue in the Middle East....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Police blocked streets and used tear gas against 'Yellow Vests' protesters in Paris. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the capital for the 28th consecutive weekend. [VIDEO]...

The combination of Netanyahu's personality and the indictments awaiting him has turned him from the big victor of the 2019 election to the trampled doormat of the subsequent coalition negotiations...

Addressing Persian Gulf tensions, US president tells Japanese PM: 'Nobody wants to see terrible things happen, especially me'Addressing Persian Gulf tensions, US president tells Japanese PM: 'Nobody wants to see terrible things happen, especia...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif visits neighboring Iraq amid his country's tensions with the US....

Offshore, it will be slightly cloudy becoming misty with chance of fog at north area later, the report added, warning of poor visibility at north area....

HIA has launched the second phase of its innovative Smart Airport program which sets to initiate an exciting major digital transformation of the passenger journey through facial biometric recognition across all key passenger touch points....

RIYADH -- Saudi Royal Air Defenses intercept a Houthi-shot drone, loaded with explosives, headed towards King Abdullah Airport in the southern Saudi city of Jizan. JEDDAH -- Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz receives Kuwait National Assembly Speaker Marzouq...

Abe woos Trump with pomp, ceremony and Japanese weekend amid differences over trade and approach to North Korea....

The White House has acknowledged that US President Donald Trump "agrees" with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un about former Vice President Joe Biden....

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen won her symbolic duel with President Emmanuel Macron Sunday, as eurosceptic forces made strong gains in the EU parliamentary election....

Trailblazing Jewish American researcher theorized the quark and was honored for his method of classifying subatomic particlesTrailblazing Jewish American researcher theorized the quark and was honored for his method of classifying subatomic particles...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Seyed Mohammad Marandi, a political analyst and an academic at Tehran University, says what will happen in case of war in Persian Gulf. [VIDEO]...

Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslims in a 2017 military crackdown in Rakhine....

Vessel capsizes on Lake Mai-Ndombe, near the village of Lokanga, in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo....

Germany's Bild newspaper to print image of a kippah that can be cut and worn on one's head....

Zimbabwe's main opposition was meeting over the weekend is expected to elect Nelson Chamisa as its next president at its first congress since the death of its revered founder, Morgan Tsvangirai....

KUWAIT, May 26 (KUNA) -- A fire at a storage facility belonging to the Ministry of Social and Labour Affairs was extinguished by firefighters late on Sunday, without any casualties, an official said. Despite being located within the ministry's social ...

Botswana's former president Ian Khama on Saturday evening quit the governing BDP which has ruled since independence more than half a century ago, citing a fall-out between him and his successor....

A tornado devastated a small community near Oklahoma City late on Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring several more, officials said yesterday, as a succession of violent storms kept pounding the Central Plains states....

An American yoga instructor who spent two weeks lost in the wilds of Hawaii, surviving on plants and water, has been found alive after an ordeal she described as "the toughest days of my life."...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen declares victory in European elections over Macron's party...

Three people were killed and six others injured yesterday in two separate explosions in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, and police said they suspected a Maoist splinter group may have been responsible....

Hundreds of Bangladeshi fishermen staged a protest in the country's south yesterday, police said, after the government imposed an unprecedented two-month long fishing ban on the Bay of Bengal....

Marine Le Pen's far-right party edged just ahead of the centrist alliance of President Emmanuel Macron in exit polls as French voters led what pollsters expected to be a nationalist surge in an EU parliament election Sunday....

JEDDAH, May 26 (KUNA) -- Under the patronage of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Muslim World League (MWL) will launch in Makkah on Monday an international conference on the values of moderation in Islam. During the four-day event, the "Ma...

Centre-right and centre-left lose European Parliament seats to Greens and Liberals while Eurosceptic parties make gains....

No major shocks from the EU elections should be positive for the majors, leaving sentiment towards trade to influence on the day....

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill resigned yesterday following a string of high-profile political defections that threatened his leadership....

9 white supremacists face off with 500 protesters in downtown Dayton; no arrests or reports of violence9 white supremacists face off with 500 protesters in downtown Dayton; no arrests or reports of violence...

US President Donald Trump yesterday played golf with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and presented a trophy to the winner of a sumo tournament, turning to personal diplomacy for the second day of a Japan visit shadowed by tough trade talk....

Thousands of protesters marched through central Hong Kong yesterday as part of annual demonstrations demanding that China be held accountable for its democracy crackdown in and around Tiananmen Square three decades ago....