Brazil's outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has not acknowledged his electoral defeat, left the country Friday, two days before his successor's inauguration and shortly after bidding his followers a tearful farewell.The controversial far-right le...

The UN General Assembly on Friday asked the International Court of Justice to consider consequences for Israel over its occupation of Palestinian territories, a day after the Jewish state's most right-wing government ever took over.The General Assemb...

The World Health Organization met Chinese officials for talks on Friday about the surge in Covid-19 cases, urging them to share real-time data so other countries can respond effectively.The rise in infections in China has triggered concern around the...

North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles Saturday, Seoul's military said, adding a final salvo to Pyongyang's record-breaking blitz of launches this year.Military tensions on the Korean peninsula have risen sharply in 2022 as the North...

Egypt’s economic crisis has made one of the country’s largest hospitals for children with cancer, Hospital 57357, vulnerable to closure, instilling fears into relatives of patients, as they may not find an alternative place to go.The crisis became pu...

Chinese tech giant Huawei said on Friday it had returned to "business as usual" despite US sanctions as it estimated annual revenues to remain flat for 2022.A leading supplier of telecom gear, smartphones and other advanced equipment, Huawei was hamm...

Building consensus between the parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) through facilitating a comprehensive dialogue is an objective of the 28th session of the Conference of Parties (COP28) due to convene in the...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday he was keen to ramp up military cooperation and hailed the two countries' efforts to counter Western influence.Battered by unprecedented Western sanctions over Moscow's assault...

Iran has summoned the Italian ambassador to protest "interventionist" policies, the foreign ministry said late Thursday, a day after Rome called in Tehran's envoy over its response to nationwide protests.The Islamic republic has been gripped by prote...

Married for over a decade, Alia Abdel-Razak is one of a million Iraqis deprived of crucial civil status documents, often caught in legal limbo in a country paralysed by bureaucracy and the ravages of war.The 37-year-old has to overcome countless hurd...

President Joe Biden on Thursday signed off on a $1.7 trillion spending bill that will keep the US government funded through the next fiscal year -- notably including another big package for Ukraine's war effort.Biden, vacationing over the New Year's...