Nablus, occupied West Bank - School principal Mohammad Jaser presses a button to open the intercom system, and makes a routine announcement. "The Israeli army has been spotted near the premises," he says, his voice

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in Qatar as part of a tour across the Gulf countries aimed at discussing bilateral trade, energy, investment and regional issues, including Syria, Yemen, Libya and Palestine.

Indonesian authorities have warned that up to 100 people could still be trapped and feared dead inside a collapsed gold mine despite a painstaking rescue effort that has so far plucked 19 people alive

The United States has officially shuttered its consulate in Jerusalem, downgrading the status of its main diplomatic mission in Palestine by folding it into the US Embassy to Israel. For decades, the consulate functioned

The international aid charity, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has suspended its operations in the wake of Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after two of its treatment centres were attacked.

(CNN)The four men in green walk calmly down the street, to gentle clapping from the people around them. They appear to be defectors, shown on a video posted to social media from Wednesday in

Seoul (CNN)The US and South Korea have canceled major war games that have long been a source of tensions on the Korean Peninsula in order to "support diplomatic efforts" with North Korea. News of

(CNN)The State Department on Sunday publicly confirmed that the US Consulate General in Jerusalem would merge with the US Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday."We will continue to conduct all of the diplomatic and consular

London (CNN)The world is moving towards legal gender equality -- but it's moving very, very slowly. Only six countries currently give women and men equal rights, a major report from the World Bank has

Hong Kong (CNN)Tensions on the border between India and Pakistan last week pushed the two nuclear-powered South Asian adversaries closer to conflict than at any point in the past two decades. While the situation