AFP, DAVOS, Switzerland: Russia is the main threat to the “liberal” world order, US Vice President Joe Biden told the Davos elite on Wednesday, in his final speech before leaving office. Biden used the big stage of the World Economic Forum in the posh Swiss resort to warn of threats posed…

AFP, UMM AL-HEIRAN, Israel: Demolitions in an Arab Israeli village activists say has been targeted by racist policies sparked violence on Wednesday, with…

AFP, BAMAKO: A suicide bombing Wednesday on a camp grouping former rebels and pro-government militia in troubled northern Mali left 40 people dead, UN and local sources told AFP. The president’s office ordered three days of national mourning following the attack, the worst in the country in recent…

AFP, MOSCOW: Russian authorities have extended US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden’s Russian residency permit by two years, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. The former National Security Agency contractor shook the American intelligence establishment to its core in 2013 with a series of devastating…

AFP, TEHRAN: Iranian officials said Wednesday they were strongly opposed to the United States joining Syrian peace talks in Kazakhstan next week, local media reported. “We are hostile to their presence and we have not invited them,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said late Tuesday,…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Former US president George HW Bush has been hospitalized yet again in Houston, local media reported Wednesday. The 92-year-old, who has seen his share of recent health incidents, had fallen ill but was in stable condition and “doing fine,” his chief of staff Jean Becker…