The United States and Russia are set to hold much-anticipated talks in January on European security and the Ukraine conflict after Moscow listed demands including to end NATO's expansion.

France has ordered the closure of a mosque in the north of the country because of the radical nature of its imam's preaching, regional authorities told AFP on Tuesday.

A lone gunman shot four people to death and wounded three, including a police officer, on Monday in a Denver-area shooting spree that unfolded at several locations and ended with police killing the suspect, authorities said.

The UAE issued its first civil marriage licence for a non-Muslim couple, state media reported Monday, as the Gulf country seeks to keep its edge over regional competitors.

1612 - First observation of Neptune - Galileo observes and records a “fixed star” without realising it is a planet.

Israel’s government has approved a $317 million plan to double the Jewish settler population in the Golan Heights, 40 years after it annexed the territory captured from Syria.

The Saudi-led coalition yesterday accused Iran and Hezbollah of helping Yemen’s Huthi rebels to launch missiles and drones at the kingdom, where two people were killed.

The ten most expensive weather disasters this year caused more than $170 billion (150 billion euros) in damage, $20 billion more than in 2020, a

Iran said nuclear talks that are set to resume yesterday in Vienna should focus on lifting sanctions on the Islamic republic and “guarantees” the US will return to the fold.

Holiday travel headaches and safety worries swelled yesterday with thousands of flights cancelled and Omicron cases soaring, as people wrap up Christmas celebrations bruised by a resurgent Covid-19 pandemic.

Saudi Arabia today announced that a man had been executed in Riyadh for planning to target public civilian gatherings through a suicide mission under the direction of ISIS, reports Al Arabiya.

We’ve been competing and China has been, from time to time, very cleverly playing us off each other in an open market,

The bodies of 28 migrants have washed up on Libya’s western coast after their boat sunk, a security official said yesterday, the latest tragedy on the world’s deadliest migration route.

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died Sunday at the age of 90, was the moral compass of his beloved “Rainbow Nation”, never afraid to speak truth to power, whatever its creed or colour.

South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, described as the country’s moral compass, died yesterday aged 90, sparking an outpouring of tributes for the outspoken Nobel peace laureate.

More than 7,000 flights have been canceled worldwide over the Christmas weekend and thousands more delayed, a tracking website reported yesterday, as the highly infectious Omicron variant brings holiday hurt to millions.

Israel’s government yesterday approved a $317 million plan to double the Jewish settler population in the Golan Heights, 40 years after it annexed the territory captured from Syria.

More than 11,000 people have been displaced in the Brazilian state of Bahia due to flooding, with authorities scrambling Saturday to provide relief to residents without alternate housing.

Russian energy giant Gazprom has rejected accusations that Moscow is limiting gas deliveries to Europe and denounced Germany’s resale of gas to Poland amid soaring prices.

The world’s economic output will exceed $100 trillion for the first  time next year and it will take China a little longer than previously  thought to overtake the United States as the No1 economy, a report  showed on Sunday.