Denmark has called on Bahrain to release all people arbitrarily detained in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom, including prominent human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who is also a Danish citizen and serving a life sentence for his influential role in the 2011 popular uprising against the Al Khalifah regime.

Officials ordered the US Capitol complex closed to much of the public starting on Thursday, one day after a staffer for a US senator from Washington state tested positive for the new coronavirus.

The Israeli regime has sent a Palestinian prisoner to an Israeli physician who had tested positive for the new coronavirus days earlier, a report says.

Indian police engaged in direct violence against Muslims and helped Hindu mobs in their atrocities against Muslims, or just stood aside watching, as Hindu extremists targeted the Muslim minority in the capital, New Delhi, last month, a new report shows.

During a visit to Moscow, a delegation from the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad movement has exchanged views with Russian officials on issues such as unity among Palestinian factions and a pro-Israel proposal devised by Washington on the Middle East conflict.

Two Americans and a British personnel are killed after over a dozen Katyusha rockets hit a military base housing American troops near the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a report says.

The US House of Representatives has passed resolution aimed at reining in US President Donald Trump’s penchant for a war with Iran.

A number of Iranian intellectuals and academicians, in a letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, urged him to take urgent action to put an end to uncontrolled violence against Muslims in India.

Israeli military forces have shot and killed a Palestinian teenage boy as tensions continue in the occupied Palestinian territories as part of the aftermath of US President Donald Trump's announcement of his so-called deal of the century on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Palestinian leaders slammed the Israeli defence ministry's approval of planning for a road that would separate Palestinians and Israeli commuters East of Jerusalem, a highly controversial move meant to help advance an illegal settlement plan in the strategically sensitive E1 region.