Israel has advanced plans for more than 2,300 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the latest in a surge of such approvals since US President Donald Trump took office, an NGO said Tuesday. A defence ministry planning committee issued the approvals while meeting over the past couple...

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and other works transformed American letters, has died at age 88. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced that Morrison died Monday night at Montefiore Medical...

The UN's human rights office on Tuesday accused southern Yemeni security forces of perpetrating "retaliatory attacks" against citizens from the country's north. "We have received information from multiple sources about arbitrary arrests and detention, forced displacement, physical assaults...

English football club Crystal Palace confirmed the signing of former Chelsea defender Gary Cahill on late Monday. Cahill signed a two-year contract, the club said in a tweet. "Looking forward to the new adventure and challenge. I can’t wait to get started!" Cahill tweeted....