Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has demanded Pakistan act “decisively against anti-Iranian terrorists” in a phone call with the country’s premier, Tehran said, a month after a bloody attack on security forces. Iran says a Pakistani suicide bomber was behind the February 13 attack…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in full campaign mode ahead of April 9 polls, yesterday said Israel “was not a state of all its citizens” in a reference to the country’s Arab population. The prime minister, in comments on Instagram, went on to say all citizens, including Arabs,…

A plane crash in Colombia killed 12 people on Saturday, including a mayor and her family, aviation and emergency services said. The Douglas DC-3 aircraft, an American-made twin-engine propeller plane that was first produced in the 1930s, crashed in the center-east of the country on a flight between…

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas appointed longtime ally Mohammad Shtayyeh as prime minister yesterday, a senior official said, in a move seen as part of efforts to further isolate Hamas. Abbas asked Shtayyeh, a member of the central committee of the Palestinian president’s Fatah party, to form…

Tunisia’s health minister has resigned after the sudden deaths of 11 newborn babies at a state maternity hospital sparked an outcry in the country, the government said. Prime Minister Youssef Chahed accepted Abderraouf Cherif’s resignation, the premier’s office said on Facebook late…

North Koreans went to the polls yesterday for an election in which there could be only one winner. Leader Kim Jong Un’s ruling Workers’ Party…