JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council’s decision not to extend an arms embargo on Iran will lead to further Middle East instability, Israel’s foreign minister said on Saturday.

“The extremist regime in Iran doesn’t just finance terrorism: it takes an active part in terrorism through its branches around the world

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The Office of the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed on Saturday that it had sent a fact-finding team to Chile’s restive Araucania region where a jailed indigenous Mapuche leader has spent more than 100 days on hunger strike over his detention during the coronavirus pandemic.

The OHCHR said in a communique that its team had visited the hospital in the regional capital Temuco where Celestino Cordova was being treated as well as prisons where at least 20 other Mapuche convicts are on hunger

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Sebastian Vettel endured another difficult Formula One qualifying session in Spain on Saturday with a Ferrari whose handling remained something of a mystery despite a change of chassis.

For the third time in six races, the four-times world champion qualified outside the top 10.

This time Vettel

Austin Dillon tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday morning and will miss Sunday’s road race at Daytona due to self-quarantine.

The Richard Childress Racing driver will be replaced by Kaz Grala in the No

The Saturday and Sunday games between the Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates were postponed in response to a positive COVID-19 test that was disclosed following Friday night’s game in Cincinnati.

After the Reds’ 8-1 win on Friday, it was revealed one of

ROME (Reuters) - The number of migrants landing on Italy’s shores has more than doubled in the last year as an economic crisis in Tunisia fuels migration in boats across the Mediterranean, Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said on Saturday.

More than 21,000 people reached Italy between August 2019 and the end of July, up 148

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni quit international cricket on Saturday, drawing curtains on an illustrious, trophy-laden career with a cryptic Instagram message.

“Thanks a lot for your love and support throughout. From 1929 hrs consider me as Retired,” he wrote on with a video montage which

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Belarus’ foreign ministry said on Saturday that Minsk was committed to dialogue with the European Union (EU) in all circumstances, according to the RIA news agency, after the bloc criticised last weekend’s presidential election.

The EU is gearing up to impose new sanctions on Belarus in response

(Reuters) - A man jumped onto a great white shark and punched it to save his wife when it attacked her on Saturday at a beach in Port Macquarie in the Australian state of New South Wales, media and officials said.

The Sydney Morning Herald said that Chantelle Doyle, 35, was attacked by the 2 to 3 metre (6-1/2 ft to 10 ft) shark while surfing at Shelly Beach, and suffered severe lacerations to her right leg.

It quoted Surf Life Saving NSW chief