Gantz has 28 days to form a majority coalition and if he fails, the president can ask parliament to agree on another candidate for prime minister
Tunisia's new President Kais Saied received a rousing round of applause from a packed parliament when he vowed to uphold women's right
Netanyahu has not given up in his battle to retain the Israeli premiership, which he has held for a record total of more than 13 years
Benny Gantz is a former military chief who had no political experience before he challenged Netanyahu
While much of Asia is tolerant of homosexuality, Taiwan became in May 2019 the first in the region to allow gay marriage
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) has been unable to form a government, making way for his main rival, Benny Gantz (R) to try
A Palestinian protester makes an insulting gesture to Israeli border guards during a protest against construction of an Israeli outpost near an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank
Elizabeth Warren and Julian Castro have said that Trump's reversal on the G7 doesn't end the culture of corruption in his administration.
The annual Shiite Muslim Arbaeen pilgrimage to Karbala in Iraq has become the scene for anti-corruption protests, following a call by firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
Israelis have been watching the US administration's decisions on Syria closely, concerned that, like the Kurds, their country too could be abandoned by its most important ally
The skin on Yamin's back is still scarred from the burns he suffered in 2014
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) and US Vice President Mike Pence (L), pictured on September 20, 2019, were scheduled to hold talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but Erdogan has said he will not meet them
Iran denied any attack took place, saying it has the cyberdefenses to fight off any incursion.
Saied won Sunday's presidential runoff by a landslide
The blazes have devastated parts of the forest in Lebanon's Chouf region
Saudi Arabia's football team will play Palestine in the West Bank for the first time
The Palestine Football Federation welcomes Saudi Arabia's national football team in Ramallah
U.S. Army officers say its clear Turkey wants to expel all U.S. military forces from northern Syria.
Great Britain's Max Whitlock on his way to gold in the men's pommel horse final at the world gymnastics championships in Stuttgart on Saturday.
Prince William and Kate Middleton will contribute a lot of things to Pakistan during their upcoming tour.
The UN annonunced a $1.4 billion shortfall on its operating budget this year, blaming the funding gap on around 60 states that had been late paying their dues
Oil prices surged more than two percent on news that Iranian tanker the Sabiti has been hit by a suspected missile strike off the Saudi coast