1884 - Greenwich in London established as the universal time meridian of longitude.

The Lebanon judge leading the investigation into last year’s huge port blast was forced to suspend his probe yesterday for a second time, moments after issuing an arrest warrant against a former minister.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday implored Israel not to “lose sight” of the need to establish a Palestinian state, as she wrapped up a two-day farewell visit.

The United Arab Emirates’ economy ministry said on Sunday that the Gulf state and Syria had agreed on future plans to enhance economic cooperation and explore new sectors.

Turnout hit a record low for parliamentary elections in war-scarred Iraq, early figures showed yesterday, amid widespread disillusionment about a political elite seen as inept and corrupt.

Iraq has captured the alleged finance chief of the Islamic State group, Sami Jasim al-Jaburi, who was sought by the United States, in an operation abroad, Iraqi authorities said yesterday.

Iraq said on Monday it has detained a top leader of the Islamic State group and a longtime al-Qaida operative in a cross-border operation.

Initial turnout in Iraq's parliamentary election on Sunday was 41 percent, the electoral commission said, in a sign of dwindling trust in political leaders although participation was not nearly as low as election officials had earlier feared.

Iran has enriched more than 120 kilogrammes of 20-percent enriched uranium, the head of the country’s atomic energy agency said on state television Saturday evening.

Five people have been killed in a car-bomb attack targeting the governor of Aden, the seat of Yemen’s internationally recognised government,

A car bomb targeting the governor's convoy shook Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Sunday killing at least four people, a Reuters witness and a security source said.

Iraq closed its airspace and land border crossings on Sunday as voters headed to the polls to elect a parliament that many hope will deliver much needed reforms after decades of conflict and mismanagement.

Ten people, including three Bangladeshis, were wounded in a drone attack on a civilian airport in the Saudi city of Jeddah that was blamed on Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels, official media said yesterday.

Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution, Abolhassan Banisadr, died in a Paris hospital yesterday aged 88, the official news agency IRNA said. “After a long illness,

Ten people including three Bangladeshis were injured in two explosives-laden drone attacks at King Abdullah airport in the southern Saudi city of Jizan late on Friday and early on Saturday, the Saudi-led coalition said.

Iran yesterday said that it has “serious concerns” about Israel’s presence in the Caucasus, as tensions mount between Iran and Azerbaijan over Baku’s ties with Israel, a major arms supplier.

Iran yesterday urged the UN atomic agency to clearly condemn a “sabotage” attack on a nuclear facility west of Tehran that it has accused arch-foe Israel of carrying out.

War crimes and crimes against humanity, including the use of child soldiers, have been committed in Libya since 2016, a United Nations investigation revealed yesterday.

Six Palestinian prisoners who made a daring escaping from an Israeli prison in September were formally indicted yesterday, Israel’s justice ministry said.

Women voters voiced disappointment yesterday after none were elected in Qatar’s first legislative polls with all eyes on whether the