Presidential candidates who want to place conditions on Israeli military aid have prompted pro-Israel House Democrats to go on the offensive.

The Trump administration’s realism is well suited to the crisis in Iraq, with a clear red line on keeping out Iranian missiles.

As Iraq approaches the constitutional deadline for selecting the new prime minister, chaos is spreading in the streets.

The United States will impose sanctions on three leaders of Iran-backed Iraqi militias that have committed human rights abuses against Iraqi protesters.

As the Iraqi parliament fails to appoint a new prime minister, thousands of university students and religious seminary students join the protests.

Egypt is proposing new technical conditions to Ethiopia that would diminish the major damages the Renaissance Dam operation could cause.

Israel expelled Human Rights Watch Director Omar Shakir from its territories, accusing him of supporting the boycott of Israel, which opened a debate about Israel’s restrictions against rights workers.

Iran's parliament speaker said he is not running in February's parliamentary elections and also does not plan to run for president in 2021; these statements brought jubilation to the camp of his hard-line rivals and triggered debate as to what his next steps might be.

A key State Department official portrayed the Houthi rebels as independent from Tehran in a briefing with reporters on Thursday, a significant shift that flies in the face of years of US justification for its role in the war in Yemen.

Performance artist consumes masterpiece in front of crowd at Art Basel in Miami, but ‘the idea’ apparently lives onAn artwork that sold last week for $120,000 and was hailed as “a symbol of global trade” has been eaten, in what might seem a fitting end for something that was an ever-ripening banana duct-taped to a […]

President and chairman of American Chamber of Commerce told to sign statement saying decision not to enter Macau was voluntaryThe chairman and president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong were separately denied entry to the neighbouring Chinese-ruled city of Macau after being detained by immigration officials.Chairman Robert Grieves and president Tara Joseph […]

Gunmen opened fire on a group from the Guajajara tribe on a highway in Maranhão state, killing two and wounding othersTwo indigenous leaders have been shot dead and two others wounded in Brazil’s Maranhão state, in an attack not far from where a prominent tribesman who defended the Amazon rainforest was killed last month, authorities […]

Rosslyn Dillon made allegations as part of legal challenge against her father’s estateFormer prime minister Bob Hawke’s youngest daughter says she was raped by a confidant of her father in the 1980s – but was urged not to report the assaults to protect Hawke’s leadership ambitions.In claims published by the New Daily, Rosslyn Dillon levelled […]

Politicians say they were offered hundreds of thousands of dollars for their support before country switched diplomatic recognition to BeijingSolomon Islands politicians allege both China and Taiwan offered bribes of hundreds of thousands of dollars to gain their support during a diplomatic row that rocked the country earlier this year.In September the prime minister of […]

Conditions eased on Sunday morning but bureau forecasts heatwave as fire authorities say dozens of fires will burn across Australia for weeks• How big are the fires burning on the east coast of Australia? • ‘Get the hell out of Dodge’: the fight to save homes from the NSW central coast infernoDozens of fires will […]

• British boxer wins on points after much-improved performance• ‘I had to decapitate him in a different way,’ Joshua says of RuizOn a night when a storm raged across the Saudi Arabian desert Anthony Joshua becalmed the Mexican tempest in front of him to make history – and a whole lot of money – by […]

Nadler: constitutional situation is ‘Framers’ worst nightmare’ Trump derides ‘witch hunt’ while boosting US economyOpinion: Nancy Pelosi is bungling the impeachment inquiryThe House judiciary committee released a report on the constitutional grounds for impeachment on Saturday. Shortly after that, Donald Trump once again insisted the whole thing was a “witch hunt” and “a total hoax”. […]

As conflict racks the nation and anger at a political scandal grows, Haitians are rallying to the country’s founding father more than 200 years after his assassinationOn the walls across Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, a stencilled image can be found. Depicting a figure in a Napoleonic-era cocked hat and military frock coat, it first emerged amid […]

Three killed before gunman shot at US navy baseStudent who attended dinner party filmed outside building where shooting took place, official saysThe Saudi student suspected of killing three people at a US navy base in Florida hosted a dinner party earlier in the week where he and three others watched videos of mass shootings, a […]