KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad described Jews as “hook-nosed” on Tuesday and blamed them for creating the troubles in the Middle East. Mahathir,...
MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday left for a visit to Israel and Jordan, pursuing a pivot away from his nation’s long-time reliance...
BEIJING – Iran has called on China to help safeguard the nuclear deal it reached with other major world powers, saying Tehran will resort to...
– SINGAPORE – Singaporeans now hold the most powerful passport in the world, with visa-free access to 159 countries – more than any other nation in 2017, according...
– NEW YORK – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres Monday that Iran is building sites to produce precision-guided missiles in Syria...
– BEIRUT – Lebanon’s parliament on Wednesday abolished a law that allowed rapists to avoid prison by marrying their victims. The repeal of the law,...
– AMMAN, Jordan – A pregnant 15-year-old who had been raped by a brother-in-law decided to marry her attacker, hoping this would shield her...
. . UNITED NATIONS – On Friday, as Israelis marked the Sabbath here in the Jewish state, US President Obama stuck it to Israel, perhaps one...
JERUSALEM – Preservation experts have opened for the first time in at least two centuries what Christians believe is Jesus’s tomb inside the...
. . BOGOTA -Â Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a five-decades-long civil war that...
. Quotes from around the world after the death of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and elder statesman of Israeli politics,...
. . NEW YORKÂ – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday he temporarily removed the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen from a UN blacklist for violating child...
. Turkey’s prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu said there is clear evidence that the Syrian Kurdish militia, the YPG was responsible for Wednesday’s suicide attack in Ankara...
. . JERUSALEM – The United States and Britain have monitored secret sorties and communications by Israel‘s air force in a hacking operation dating back to...
. . NETHERLANDS – The symbol of the murderous Islamic State is waving in The Hague. ‘Death to the Jews,’ shout the demonstrators. Yet the Dutch...
. . PALESTINE – Wielding a knife from his pulpit in a sermon streamed on the Iternet last month, Palestinian Sheikh Muhammad Salakh called for followers...
TEHRAN – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday that a historic nuclear deal reached with world powers earlier this week won’t have any...
. BANGKOK – Israel’s Ambassador to Thailand expressed extreme disappointment Thursday over statements made by a minor Thai royal denying the holocaust of WWII. Ambassador Simon...
INCHEON – Thailand’s victory dashed China’s hopes of reaching the men’s football quarter-finals, as defending champions Japan hammered Palestine 4-0 to set up an Asian...
PENANG – A Malaysian teenager is being investigated by police for sedition after “liking” a pro-Israel Facebook posting, sparking outrage over perceived growing intolerance...