Hundreds of South Koreans took to the streets of Seoul on Tuesday to voice disapproval of the US leader amid concerns over North Korea’s nuclear threats. Surrounded by thousands of police officers and a tight perimeter created by buses, hundreds of anti-Trump protesters rallied at a boulevard near the US Embassy, holding banners that read […]

Lebanese President Michel Aoun expressed concern on Friday over reports surrounding the circumstances of Saad Hariri, who resigned as Lebanese prime minister on Saturday while in Saudi Arabia.Aoun, in a meeting with foreign ambassadors and representatives of the United Nations, EU and Arab League in Lebanon, urged clarification of these circumstances, presidential sources said, Reuters […]

Several Republicans on Thursday urged their party’s candidate for a vacant US Senate seat to quit the race if an explosive report that he had a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl is true.Four women, speaking on the record, told The Washington Post that Roy Moore of Alabama pursued them when they were 18 or […]

Some senior figures detained in last Saturday’s purge in Saudi Arabia were beaten and tortured so badly during their arrest or subsequent interrogations that they required hospital treatment, Middle East Eye revealed.People inside the royal court also told MEE that the scale of the crackdown, which has brought new arrests each day, is much bigger […]

Forty members of UK parliament from Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party have agreed to sign a letter of no-confidence in her, the Sunday Times newspaper reported.That is eight short of the number needed to trigger a party leadership contest, the mechanism through which May could be forced from office and replaced by another Conservative, […]

A senior United Nations official said on Sunday she would raise the issue of persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority, especially sexual violence and torture, with the International Criminal Court (ICC).Pramila Patten, special representative of the secretary general on ‘Sexual Violence in Conflict’said around $10 million (7.58 million pounds) is needed immediately to deliver specialist services […]

Riot police have used water cannons to prevent hundreds of protesters reaching the US embassy in Manila, just a few hours before the arrival of President Donald Trump in the Philippines for a regional summit and the last leg of his Asia tour.Carrying placards declaring “Dump Trump” and “Down with US Imperialism”, the left-wing protesters […]

US President Donald Trump took his verbal jousting with Kim Jong-Un to a new level Sunday, taunting the North Korean leader over his height and weight before musing over the idea of them eventually becoming friends.While they have never met, Trump and Kim have form when it comes to name-calling, with the US president a […]

The House of Saud regime, its King and absolute monarch Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and its inexperienced Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman who is also known as MBS, are making headlines more often than they used to. The gossip hovering over King Salman’s health, his probable Alzheimer’s disease and dismissing the Crown Prince to […]

As France prepares to mark the second anniversary of the November 2015 Paris attacks, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has warned that the terrorist threat remains “very high,” with a number of “small groups” planning attacks.France has been on high alert since January 2015, when it was paralyzed by a series of the self-styled Islamic State-linked […]