Politics
Maldives arrests vice president over plot to assassinate president
Maldives police arrested Vice President Ahmed Adeeb Saturday on suspicion of links to a blast on the presidential boat last month.Egypt votes in parliamentary elections
Egypt kicked off a long-awaited parliamentary election on Sunday, the final step in a process that was meant to put the country ...German politician stabbed in attack tied to migrant crisis
A German mayoral candidate active in helping refugees was seriously wounded on Saturday in what police described as a stabbing with a ...Guinea opposition leader vows protests against Conde re-election
Guinea\'s opposition leader Saturday called for demonstrations against the "serious denial of democracy" in the first round of presidential elections won by ...Turkey suspends Ankara police, intelligence, security chiefs after bombing
Turkey\'s interior ministry said it had removed the police, intelligence and security chiefs of Ankara from their posts in an effort to ...Hillary Clinton fends off rivals in first Democratic debate
Hillary Clinton emerged unscathed rom the Democratic Party\'s first debate for the 2016 presidential campaign, cutting a calm and confident figure as ...KP Oli elected as new Prime Minister of Nepal
Nepal\'s parliament on Sunday chose veteran politician KP Sharma Oli as the new prime minister, weeks after the quake-devastated country adopted a ...Belarus votes as Lukashenko aims to extend 21-year rule
Belarussians began voting Sunday in an election that is likely to see authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko claim a fifth term, with the ...UN envoy proposes Libya unity government
The UN envoy for Libya proposed the members of a unity government Friday aimed at ending years of conflict, but the plan ...Iran Revolutionary Guards commander killed in Syria
Islamic State group jihadists have killed a senior commander in Iran\'s Revolutionary Guards in Syria, the elite branch of the Iranian military ...