Pope Francis on Tuesday condemned nationalist leaders who blame migrants for their countries' problems and themselves fostered mistrust in society by pursuing dishonest gain and xenophobic and racist policies.

A total of 4,476 people lost their lives on migratory routes across the world in 2018, a UN agency said on Tuesday.

Weeks of Yellow Vest protests have cost French shopping malls €2 billion ($2.27 billion), a national trade group said .

Saudi Arabia on Monday denounced US Senate resolutions calling for an end to US military support for the war in Yemen and blaming Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying they were based on unsubstantiated claims, Reuters reports.

Iran’s non-oil exports to the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have increased by 38 per cent in the first eight months of this year to over $6.5 billion, local media reported.

Canada says a third Canadian citizen has been detained in China, following the arrest of a Chinese telecom executive in Vancouver on December 1.

Some US lawmakers have called for a probe into the death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl at a US Border Patrol detention center in Lordsburg, New Mexico earlier this month.

The United States is concerned about Hezbollah's growing popularity and political influence in Lebanon due to the fact that Washington prefers to see a new civil war among different factions in the country, says an academic.

US President Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to proceed with negotiations to construct a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to a new document obtained by CNN.

Eight European Union member states have warned that US President Donald Trump’s plan on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is yet to be unveiled, will not be successful if it fails to take into account internationally-agreed parameters for peace, namely a two-state solution along the pre-1967 boundaries.

The Kremlin says there is no link between Turkey’s possible purchase of US Patriot surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems and that of the advanced Russian-built S-400 air defense missile system, saying Moscow is in the process of fulfilling the terms of the deal with Ankara.

Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement has condemned Sudan for seeking to retain and even increase its troops in a Saudi Arabian-led coalition that has invaded the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.

A report reveals that a high-ranking Saudi intelligence official, who was fired over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, made clandestine trips to Israel on behalf of Crown Prince bin Salman over the purchase of an Israeli spy tool that is said to have helped the kingdom track dissidents abroad.

Fresh tensions have erupted in the Moscow-Tel Aviv relations over the Palestine issue and the Ukraine conflict plus a previous row on Russian aircraft downed in Syrian soil.

Iranian capital of Tehran has hosted major summit on the critical situation in Yemen demanding the United Nations to halt arming of the militant groups in the country and take action on the humanitarian situation of Yemeni people.

New bill is passed by Iranian Parliament as a majority of 114 MPs voted for the law banning desecration of ethnicities and religious groups in the country.   Signed by 84 Members of Parliament, desecration of ethnicities and religious groups is banned in Iran and the perpetrators violating the law will be legally fined, reported Taqrib News ...

Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Labour and Social Development Ahmed Al-Rajhi announced yesterday that work in 41 professions in the fields of hospitality, tourism and non-profit organisations in the city of Madina will be restricted to Saudi citizens.

A prominent Iranian scholar, attending the first summit on supporting Yemeni nation called the Arab country as manifest of the situation for all oppressed people denouncing world arrogant powers for inflicting the toughest blows to the impoverished Arab nation.

Negotiating delegate from the Islamic Republic of Iran has met with Saudi minister of Hajj signing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for participation of Iranian Hajj pilgrims in the upcoming pilgrimage in 2019.

Iran says Europe’s political support for the 2015 nuclear deal is “valuable”, but that’s not enough, as it must translate its words into action by taking “operational” steps to salvage the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) after the US withdrawal.