Philipp Bobkov, who has died aged 93, was a former director of the KGB's Fifth Directorate - the political police department responsible for suppression of internal dissent in the former Soviet Union - and a key player in the organisation in the 1970s and 1980s.
Mohamed Morsi, who died in a courtroom aged 67 last Monday, became Egypt's first civilian head of state in June 2012 and the first Islamist to lead the Arab world's most populous nation; but elation soon turned to anger when he assumed powers as great as those exercised by the ousted president Hosni Mubarak, and...
The much-anticipated Trump regime's economic plan for Palestine is set to be formally announced next week - but Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner yesterday revealed that the $50bn Middle East economic plan calls for creation of a global investment fund to lift the Palestinian and neighbouring Arab economies, and construction of a $5bn transportation corridor...
Five-year-old Khatab Khalaf wonders why he can't go to school like other boys his age. He cannot because, officially, he does not exist.
Boris Johnson, the favourite to be the next UK prime minister, yesterday claimed Tory Party members were not interested in why police were called to investigate concerns for the welfare of a woman in his home.
The first night launch for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center is scheduled for 11:30 p.m. Monday night.
A former prime minister backed by Turkey's ruling party has conceded defeat and congratulated his opponent in Istanbul's repeated mayoral election.
