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Envoy confirms getting assurances of commitment from all parties to truce, which will go into effect on Wednesday night. The UN has announced that a 72-hour ceasefire in Yemen will go into effect on Wednesday night. In a statement on Monday, the office of the UN's...

The US president Donald Trump’s anti-globalisation sentiments are just a "phase" and will go away, the chairman of DP World told CNBC on Sunday. "What Donald Trump wants is fair trade, fair trade versus free trade now," Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem said at the World...

Tens of thousands of Syrians stranded in rebel areas of east Aleppo, days after government claimed victory. Tens of thousands of civilians are anxiously waiting to leave eastern Aleppo after a new deal was reached between rebel fighters and the Syrian regime. Al-Farouq Abu Bakr, a...

Doha-based media network says the demand by Saudi Arabia and allies aims 'to suppress people's right to information'. Al Jazeera Media Network has condemned a demand by Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries to shut the media organisation, calling it "nothing short than a...

For years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been forced to walk a thin line. Hardline conservatives within the country, and even within the governing coalition, want Netanyahu to dismiss the idea of a Palestinian state altogether. But much of the international community continues to...

Draft resolution to UN also urges oil embargo and textile exports ban in response to Pyongyang's sixth nuclear test. The United States has asked the UN Security Council to freeze the assets of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un and slap an oil embargo on the...

The New Year started on a mixed note with a number of lives lost in Iraq, Turkey and Somalia. But to conservationists, 2017 began in an excellent way: China pledged to stop the ivory trade, a move that is widely seen as a possible game-changer...

MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines said on Saturday that President-elect Donald J. Trump had endorsed his brutal antidrug campaign, telling Mr. Duterte that the Philippines was conducting it “the right way.” Mr. Duterte, who spoke with Mr. Trump by telephone on Friday,...

A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen called on Sunday for the United Nations to place a strategic port under its supervision after 42 Somalis were killed in an attack on their refugee boat nearby. The refugees had departed from the western port city of Hodeidah...

by James Bays US President Trump and North Korean leader Kim sign a declaration that aims to achieve denuclearisation of Korean Peninsula. This is absolutely historic. Never before have the leaders of these two countries met. These are countries that are still technically at war. However,...