Iran on Monday seized a South Korean-flagged oil tanker in the crucial Strait of Hormuz, further escalating tensions in the Middle East between Tehran and the West...

Israel announced that two million people will have received a two-dose Covid-19 vaccination by the end of January, a pace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts is the world's fastest...

Over the past two decades, a new word has entered universities, research labs, and think-tanks: Anthropocene...

A British judge has rejected the United States' request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges, saying it would be "oppressive" because of his mental health...

The Giza Security Directorate on Sunday received notification that a husband killed his wife inside a school in Bolaq Al-Dakrour after stabbing her with a knife...

South Korea's agricultural ministry said Monday it is looking into yet another suspected case of highly pathogenic bird flu linked to farms amid the prolonged fight against the disease...

The United States has reversed a decision to bring an aircraft carrier home from the Persian Gulf days after ordering the vessel out of the Middle East, saying the decision was due to "recent threats" from Iranian officials...

UAE intelligence agencies have arrested an Iranian squad in Dubai and Abu Dhabi on suspicion of plotting to carry out attacks against Israeli citizens...

As the country battles with a harsh second wave, four patients with coronavirus died in Egypt on Saturday in the intensive care unit of Al-Husseineya Central Hospital in the country’s Sharqia Governorate due to an alleged lack of oxygen supplies...

Amid record coronavirus cases, including a more contagious variant strain, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday restrictions are "probably about to get tougher" though the kingdom plans to administer the Oxford AstraZeneca for t...

After a month-long hiatus, trilateral negotiations between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt resumed Sunday on the filling and operations of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile River...

Workers have threatened to protest a decision by a cash-strapped UN agency to cut back on wages. A spokeswoman for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Tamara Al-Rifai said that about 80 percent of employe...

A threat by Iran’s air force commander to use the missile capabilities of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza in any potential confrontation between Iran and Israel Sunday sparked a widespread negative backlash, raising questions about Lebanonâ€...

Oman has inoculated up to 7,600 people with COVID-19 vaccines, and has not received any report of side effects from those who received them, health secretary Ahmed Mohammed said...

One person was killed and a suspect was taken into custody after a shooting at a church in East Texas on Sunday morning...

At least three people were killed and eight others wounded in twin bombings in southern Somalia, officials said Sunday evening...

Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California was re-elected speaker of the US House of Representatives for the 117th Congress on Sunday...

Prominent Palestinian DJ Sama Abd Al-Hadi, who was arrested last week by the Palestinian Authority amid outrage over a techno party she hosted at the West Bank Muslim holy site of Nabi Musa, has been released on bail, Hebrew-language media reports...

People in Iraq have attended nationwide rallies to commemorate the first anniversary of the US assassination of top Iranian and Iraqi anti-terror commanders, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi discussed with the Sudan Sovereignty Council’s Chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan bilateral relations during a phone call on Saturday...