Iran’s judiciary has ordered one of the country’s leading filmmakers to serve out a six-year prison sentence from a decade ago that had never been enforced, as the government seeks to silence criticism amid growing economic turmoil and political pressure

Abdullah Shafique and Imam-ul-Haq combined in an unbeaten 68-run opening stand to get Pakistan away to a positive start chasing a target of 342 for victory in the first cricket test against Sri Lanka

The leader of Sri Lanka’s main opposition party withdrew his candidacy for president and threw his support to another contender trying to succeed the ousted leader who fled the country last week

Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat has downplayed talk of normalization with Israel after the kingdom opened its airspace to Israeli commercial flights and hammered out a complex deal over islands in the Red Sea that required Israeli assent

U_S_ President Joe Biden says he looks forward to working with Egypt's president “on a whole range of issues.”

Sri Lankan lawmakers have met to begin choosing a new leader to serve the rest of the term abandoned by the president who fled abroad and resigned after mass protests over the country’s economic collapse

Sri Lanka's prime minister has been sworn in as interim president until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled abroad and resigned after mass protests over the country’s economic collapse

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as Sri Lanka’s interim president until Parliament elects a successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who resigned after mass protests over the country’s economic collapse forced him from office

Protesters have retreated from government buildings in Sri Lanka, restoring a tenuous calm to the economically crippled country

Sri Lankan protesters retreated from government buildings they had seized and military troops reinforced security at the Parliament on Thursday