Riot police fired tear gas at protesters in Hong Kong Monday afternoon as the financial hub was shaken by a general strike that brought parts of the city to a standstill. The latest clashes occurred in the working class district of Wong Tai Sin with police launching multiple volleys of tear...

At least 19 people have been killed when a speeding car driving against traffic crashed into three others causing a huge explosion in Cairo, the Egyptian health ministry said Monday. The car crash happened just before midnight Sunday outside the National Cancer Institute in central Cairo...

The U.N. food agency Sunday said it reached an agreement with Yemen’s rebels to resume food deliveries to rebel-controlled parts of the country after suspending the aid for over a month. The partial suspension of aid to the capital, Sanaa, began in June amid accusations that the Houthi rebels...

Iran said Sunday that an oil tanker sized by its elite forces in the Gulf for smuggling fuel was an Iraqi ship, the official IRNA news agency reported. "The oil tanker that was captured on Wednesday for smuggling Iran's fuel to other countries was an Iraqi ship," IRNA said, quoting...