
SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi king on holiday; prince to run affairs
Saudi crown prince Nayef takes over the country's affairs as King Salman goes on holiday in the UK.

Saudi crown prince Nayef takes over the country's affairs as King Salman goes on holiday in the UK.

South Korea’s president backs the deployment of the US missile system THAAD in her country.

The Turkish premier says there will be no change in Ankara’s policy towards Syria while President Assad remains in power.

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri says Arab countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, should “rectify” their relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A Ugandan military convoy crosses into South Sudan to evacuate thousands of Ugandan citizens trapped by violence in the capital, Juba.

Turkey accuses European Parliament of promoting terrorism following a photo exhibition about Kurdish-controlled northern Syria.

At least eight people, mostly children, are killed in a fire at an orphanage in South Africa.

Iraqi forces have held a military show to celebrate the recapture of the strategic western city of Fallujah from Takfiri Daesh terrorists.

A gunman kills at least four officers at a police station in Kenya’s west.

Philip Hammond rules out an emergency budget following post-Brexit economic turbulence.

Activists have gathered outside Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Washington, DC, to denounce the role of Riyadh in supporting terrorism in the Middle East.

Egypt denies its FM had watched the Euro 2016 soccer final with the Israeli PM in al-Quds late Sunday.

Thousands of holidaymakers are evacuated in southern France, where a raging fire threatened to sweep through several campsites.

The Ansarullah movement says any solution to the conflict in Yemen must guarantee the end of Saudi aggression.

Human rights group urge Prime Minister Theresa May to improve UK's human rights record.

A court in Austria sentences an Austrian national to 20 years in prison for recruiting militants for the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he will be remembered in history as the ruler who protected the sovereignty and national integrity of his country.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is traveling to Russia to seek Moscow’s cooperation in the war against the Daesh terror group.