The Palestinian Authority has denounced an Israeli decision to expand an illegal settlement in the heart of Hebron city, describing the move as a declaration of war against the Palestinian people. On Sunday, government spokesman Yousef Al

If Leslie had hit Portugal as a hurricane, it would have been the first time in recorded history that Europe had seen the landfall of a hurricane. As it happened, Leslie was officially a

One of the world's best-known universities is being sued for discriminating against Asian American applicants. Harvard University in the United States is denying discrimination. At the heart of the case is affirmative action legislation,

QUNEITRA, Syria: A vital border crossing between Jordan and Syria reopened on Monday for the first time in three years, promising to restore trade and movement between the two countries that had halted because

QUNEITRA, Syria: A vital border crossing between Jordan and Syria reopened on Monday for the first time in three years, promising to restore trade and movement between the two countries that had halted because

TEHRAN: At an outreach center in southern Tehran, teenagers are learning to be journalists, while upstairs their mothers are fine-tuning their sewing skills and rushing to fill an order for hospital uniforms.The brand-new center

At least 13 people are known to have died on Sunday night as flash floods swept through villages around the southern French city of Carcassonne, according to the interior ministry's rescue service. In the

Nicaraguan police have arrested at least 26 people after breaking up a group of demonstrators gathering for an anti-government protest on Sunday. Police wielded clubs and hurled stun grenades at the crowd in a

The only crossing point between Syria and Israeli-occupied territory of Golan Heights has reopened for UN observers, four years after closing due to the civil war in Syria. Two white United Nations jeeps crossed into

How the Saudi-Emirati led war in Yemen makes the task of going to school anything but simple.