The Israeli army said it had shot down a drone overnight Thursday into Friday that came from Lebanon, a border on heightened military alert due to recent skirmishes. Israeli troops overnight "identified a drone which infiltrated into Israeli airspace in the Mount Hermon area, along the...

At least five people were killed while 10 were rescued Friday morning from a massive landslide in the southern Indian state of Kerala, local officials said. “Some more families are trapped in the area and the search is ongoing," Idukki’s district police chief, known as Karuppasamy. R,...

Global coronavirus cases exceeded the 19 million mark Thursday, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University.  The number of deaths from the virus has reached 713,406, with recoveries topping 11.48 million. The US remains the worst-hit country, with over 4.88...

World stocks ended four days of gains Friday after US. President Donald Trump cranked up simmering tensions with China by banning US transactions with two popular Chinese apps, Tencent's WeChat and ByteDance's Tiktok. Chinese stocks led losers in Asia and its currency slumped after Trump...