Tripoli / AFP Two months after his dramatic arrival in Libya’s capital, Fayez Al-Sarraj’s unity government has won international support but had little impact inside a divided country plagued by extremists, analysts say. The head of the Government of National Accord sailed into Tripoli under naval escort on March 30 in defiance of a militia alliance that has been in ...

  Jerusalem / AFP A key party in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s newly expanded right-wing coalition threatened to bring it down on Sunday over a demand related to the military. The Jewish Home party, whose leader Naftali Bennett is a political rival to Netanyahu, said it would vote against the expanded coalition in parliament if its demand was not met. ...

  Bloomberg French unions seeking to overturn an unpopular labor law are set to intensify their protests as the government shows no sign of giving in after a week of strikes and blockades caused gas stations in many regions of the country to run dry. By the end of this week, the national railroad, the Paris metro, ports and air ...