Face-to-face talks between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have yielded modest progress, with tentative agreements on prisoner exchanges and a total ceasefire, but no political breakthroug... Read more

Russian president Vladimir Putin has said his country have ’reason to appeal’ against the four-year ban imposed by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Wada’s executive committee unanimously accept... Read more

Jeremy Corbyn has insisted the experience of a four-year-old boy having to lie on a hospital floor while he waited for a bed is a political issue. A photograph of Jack Williment-Barr, who wa... Read more

The US Army is planning its biggest deployment of troops to Europe in 25 years, with 20,000 troops slated to take part in a massive force projection exercise at a time of increasingly advers... Read more

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Tuesday welcomed the heads of delegations from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries for the 40th summit in Riyadh to discuss regiona... Read more

Asmaa El-Batakoushy Algeria’s presidential election is being held amid a divide among the Algerian people. While some people are in favor of the election, others reject it. The presidential... Read more

Asmaa Al-Batakouchi   The Tunisian “Ennahda” movement, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the country, has been experiencing several crises that put it in a grea... Read more

Nora Bendary   In light of inflamed protests across Tehran, the process of registering candidates for running in Iran’s parliamentary elections, slated for February 21, 2020, has come t... Read more

Mohamed Abdelghaffar The Muslim Brotherhood tried to gain presence in Europe so it can become a new base for its activities in case of confrontation with Arab peoples. In 1958, Saeed Ramadan... Read more

Noura Bendari The Houthi militia uses all tools to get money from ordinary Yemenis. The militia has recently imposed a fine on prayer at the mosques affiliated to it. It recently distributed... Read more

Marching ahead toward the impeachment of Donald Trump, Democrats on Monday prepared to hear testimony that could result in material from the special counsel Robert Mueller’s report being fol... Read more

Finland will have the world’s youngest serving prime minister later this week when Sanna Marin, 34, is sworn in by parliament at the head of a coalition whose four other parties are all led... Read more

The World Anti-Doping Agency has voted unanimously to ban Russia from international sport for four years for doping offences. Russia now have 21 days to appeal against the sentence, which wo... Read more

As part of a new series you can ask our political team any questions you have about the general election, and they will post their responses on the politics live blog between 12.30pm and 1.3... Read more

The Japanese imperial army asked the government to provide one wartime sex slave for every 70 soldiers serving in China in the late 1930s, according to dispatches that offer evidence of offi... Read more