In 2020, security services detained 32 Russians who were lured to Belarus under the guise of fake jobs set up by Ukrainian spies, CNN reported.

The Taliban detained several journalists for covering the huge protests in Kabul on Tuesday against the Taliban and Pakistan's proxy war in the country. Some were reportedly released later.

A massive fire raged through an overcrowded prison near Indonesia’s capital early on Wednesday.

A Spanish woman whose identity was swapped at birth with another baby born hours earlier is suing the regional health department for more than three million euros ($A4.The health department in the northern region of La Rioja said in a statement on Tuesday that an internal investigation found an undetermined …

Trade unions and regulatory experts warn that budget and staff cuts may lead to drug approval delays or the UK regulator simply rubber-stamping EMA decisions

Morocco kicked off its lower house and local elections on Wednesday as some 17.5 million eligible voters are going to the polls across the country. Polling stations, which are being operated following preventative measures for COVID-19,

Energy ministers from Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon on Wednesday agreed a plan to bring gas and electricity to crisis-hit Lebanon at a meeting in Amman.

The Syrian army on Wednesday hoisted the Syrian flag in the Daraa al-Balad area in the southern province of Daraa, following a Russian-mediated agreement with the armed rebels in that area. State news agency SANA said the army hoisted the Syrian flag after scores of rebels laid down their weapons …

A French-Moroccan believed to be the only surviving member of a group that killed 130 people in a rampage across Paris hass described himself as "an Islamic State soldier" at the start of the trial into the 2015 attacks.

India and Russia believe that foreign militant groups operating from Afghanistan pose a threat to central Asia and to India and agreed to deepen anti-terrorism cooperation at a meeting of their national security chiefs on Wednesday,