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BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group and its allies have lost the parliament majority they had held since 2018, according to final results...
Iranian police have arrested academic and author Said Madani on charges of acting “against the security” of the country and of having ties to...
BAALBEK, Lebanon — It was a sea of yellow as thousands of men, women and children waving Hezbollah flags and wearing the group’s trademark yellow...
ABU DHABI — The UAE’s long-time de facto ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was elected as president on Saturday, official media said, a day...
The United Arab Emirates’s ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan died Friday at the age of 73, official media said. Sheikh Khalifa’s rule since...
BEIRUT — In households across Lebanon, it’s likely that one or more family members are planning to emigrate — if they can get a passport. Demand...
The United States has crossed the threshold of one million deaths from COVID-19, the White House said on Thursday, as cities like New York try to turn...
German investigators said Thursday that they foiled a “Nazi terror attack” in a school, after arresting a 16-year-old suspect. An overnight...
Shireen Abu Akleh, killed Wednesday while covering clashes in the West Bank between the Israeli army and Palestinian gunmen, was a veteran journalist...
Elon Musk said Tuesday he will reverse Twitter’s permanent ban of former US president Donald Trump if the Tesla CEO follows through with his plan to...
The European Union on Tuesday condemned a ruling from Israel’s top court last week approving the eviction of over 1,000 Palestinians to make way for...
Pope Francis has postponed a planned visit to Lebanon next month due to health reasons, a Lebanese Cabinet minister said Monday. Minister of Tourism...
President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russian forces in Ukraine were fighting to defend the motherland from an “absolutely unacceptable...
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s aging King Salman has been admitted to hospital for unspecified tests, state media reported Sunday. The kingdom has...
Britain’s governing Conservatives suffered local election losses Friday in their few London strongholds and other parts of the UK — results that...
UNITED NATIONS — The UN chief called for Lebanon’s parliamentary elections on May 15 to be “free, fair transparent and inclusive” in a report...
TEHRAN — A Swedish-Iranian academic convicted of spying for Israel is set to be executed in Iran later this month, a news agency in the Islamic...
LOS ANGELES — Comedian Dave Chappelle was tackled during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night. Security guards chased and overpowered...
US President Joe Biden urged voters Tuesday to defend their “fundamental” rights after a leaked Supreme Court draft on ending nationwide legal...
The Ukrainian military said Tuesday that Russian forces had launched an offensive on the besieged Azovstal steel plant where Kyiv’s forces are holed...
Nearly six years after Israel accused Mohammed el-Halabi of diverting tens of millions of dollars from an international charity to Hamas, he has yet...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has dedicated a gallery of planes to former aviator US president George H.W. Bush, who...
RAMALLAH — A proposal by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to delegate some services to other United Nations agencies has sparked outrage among...
KYIV, Ukraine — US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has met with Ukraine’s president during a visit to the country’s...
An emotional Pentagon spokesman lashed out Friday at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “depravity” in Ukraine, questioning how any moral person...
TEHRAN, Iran — Thousands of Iranians marched in rallies in the capital Tehran on Friday to mark Jerusalem Day, with Iran’s leaders and top...
Iran has set up a new centrifuge parts workshop underground at its Natanz nuclear facility for better protection, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog...
Ukraine slammed Russia after several missiles flew at a low altitude over the Zaporizhzhia power plant, Europe’s largest nuclear facility, warning...
Moldovan President Maia Sandu on Tuesday urged citizens to remain calm while she stepped up security measures after a series of explosions in the...
Israeli Eytan Stibbe and three other astronauts splashed down Monday off the Florida coast after spending two weeks aboard the International Space...
A stone statuette over 4,500 years old depicting the face of an ancient goddess was discovered in the southern Gaza Strip, officials in Hamas...
MOSCOW, Russia — Moscow said Monday it had arrested members of a “neo-Nazi terrorist” group in Russia who allegedly planned to assassinate...
British lawmakers have criticized a Sunday newspaper article that claimed Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner tried to put the prime minister “off...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Kyiv Sunday, the day the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its third month, President Volodymyr...
A Russian strike killed at least five people, including a baby, and wounded 18 others in Ukraine’s Black Sea city of Odesa on Saturday, Kyiv said,...
Ukraine will make a new attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, the heavily destroyed city largely controlled by Russian forces, at noon on...
KYIV, Ukraine — EU chief Charles Michel said Wednesday that there must be justice for war crimes committed in Ukraine as he toured the devastated...
Researchers excavating Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre said on Wednesday they have rediscovered the main section of the medieval high...
LONDON — The British Crown dependency of Jersey said Wednesday it has frozen more than $7.0 billion (6.4 billion euros) in assets believed to be...
DES MOINES, Iowa — US President Joe Biden appeared to accuse Russian leader Vladimir Putin of genocide on Tuesday for the first time, during a...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that the future of his country shouldn’t depend on the resurrection of its nuclear...
Britain is trying to verify reports that Russia has used chemical weapons in an attack on the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, London’s top...
A jury in London on Monday found an Islamic State fanatic guilty of stabbing lawmaker David Amess to death and plotting to attack other lawmakers. The...
A Russian rocket ripped through a Ukrainian train station packed with people in eastern Donetsk, killing dozens fleeing fighting Friday, a sign of...
Ukraine urged its residents in the east of the country Thursday to take their “last chance” to flee mounting Russian attacks, after devastation...
Iran has shifted all the centrifuge production equipment from a nuclear site allegedly targeted by Israel to the underground Natanz facility,...
Russia has turned the city of Mariupol into a Nazi-style death camp, burning bodies and blocking humanitarian convoys to hide evidence of mass...
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russia’s veteran firebrand with a flair for political theater who appeared to predict Russia’s military action in Ukraine,...