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The United Nations Security Council has extended an arms embargo to all Houthi rebels, as the Yemeni group faces increased international pressure after a string of recent attacks on Gulf countries. Monday’s resolution, proposed by the United Arab Emirates and adopted with 11 votes in favor and four...

The leaders of six opposition parties in Turkey pledged on Monday to bring back parliamentary democracy and scrap the executive presidential system that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan introduced three years ago. In a ceremony in Ankara, the parties' leaders put their signatures on a 48-page...

As two of the world’s key wheat producers face off in an all-out war, tomorrow looks grim for the Middle East and North Africa countries that need wheat from Ukraine and Russia. Russia is the world’s number-one wheat exporter—and largest producer after China and India—Ukraine is among the top five...

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, which makes it hard to remove Native American children from their parents, their tribes and their heritage. The law, which calls for special procedures in adoptions, was rooted in...

A national conference in Burkina Faso has authorized the ruling junta to hold power for three years, potentially setting the West African country on a collision course with international partners who have urged a speedy return to constitutional order. The junta seized power in a January coup against...

An award-winning Ugandan author who fled his country after being charged with insulting President Yoweri Museveni has arrived in Germany along with this son to seek medical treatment after being “tortured” in jail, according to his lawyer. The novelist was jailed in December and later charged with...

The audience burst into laughter—and nearly burst into tears—as 18 youth and young adults from around Lebanon shared their life stories and struggles with identity, sectarianism, racism, and social marginalization. It was the story of a young Druze man who was bullied because he was poor, a Syrian...

The Taliban is creating a “grand army” for Afghanistan that will include officers and troops who served in the old regime, says the official tasked with overseeing the military’s transformation. Latifullah Hakimi, head of the Taliban’s Ranks Clearance Commission, also told a news conference on...

Civilian deaths and injuries in Yemen's civil war have almost doubled since UN human rights monitors were controversially removed in October, a non-governmental organization said on Thursday. The ejection of monitors had opened the door to "unchecked, horrific violations," the Norwegian Refugee...

European Union foreign ministers have discussed ways to ease tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and prevent the possible break-up of the ethnically divided Balkan country as the peace agreement brokered more than 25 years ago continues to unravel. “The nationalist and separatist rhetoric is...