Jordan's education and tourism ministers resigned Thursday after an investigation into the deaths of 21 people, mainly school children who were swept away in flash floods on a school outing in the Dead Sea region, state media said. A parliamentary committee formed to investigate the...

Thousands of Google employees and contractors staged brief midday walk-outs Thursday at offices across Asia, Europe and North America to protest sexism, racism and unchecked executive power in their workplace. At Google's global headquarters in Mountain View, California, hundreds of...

Egyptian security forces have detained the daughter of former presidential candidate and senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat al-Shater, family members and two security sources said Thursday. Aisha al-Shater was one of six women arrested overnight. They also included Huda Abd...

Yemen's coalition-backed government said it would work on resuming oil production and exports from new fields "in the coming days", without specifying the quantity expected, SABA state news agency reported Thursday. The announcement came after the first cabinet meeting held by the newly...