New York: Over half the Yemen population is facing acute food shortages “with millions knocking on the door of famine”, the UN food relief agency chief said on Wednesday, wrap ...

Dhaka: Earl Miller, the US ambassador to Bangladesh, said his country wanted to see "real progress" so that the Rohingya community could return safely to their homeland, Myanmar ...

Paris: Months after a school teacher in France was murdered for allegedly showing caricatures of Prophet Mohammed in one of his classes, a schoolgirl has said that she had lied about his ...

Moscow/Sputnik: The Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist group (banned in Russia) shelled Syria's Idlib de-escalation zone 18 times over the past 24 hours, Rear Adm.

Kabul: A roadside blast killed a senior police official in Afghanistan's Ghazni on Monday, local media reports said.

New York: The UN migration agency (IOM) on Monday called for “urgent humanitarian access” to an overcrowded migrant detention centre in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, where a dea ...

Vatican City/Sputnik: Pope Francis, who returned from his historic apostolic trip to Iraq on Monday, has called for respecting and protecting women in his message on International Women&r ...

Tel Aviv/Sputnik: Israel permits emergency entry of foreign citizens starting Monday, provided certain rules are followed, the country's government said.

Moscow/Sputnik: Over 500 people attended a protest rally in Syria's Idlib against illegal armed groups, but the demonstration was suppressed by militants, Rear Adm. Alexander Karpov, ...