The death toll from last month’s earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has risen to over 2,000, local media reported Tuesday. According to the Indonesian news agency Antara, military authorities in the region announced that the Sept. 28 earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi Island of...

UN refugee agency UNRWA on Tuesday decried as “irresponsible” Israeli plans to close the agency’s offices in the occupied East Jerusalem.  “UNRWA is carrying out operations within the framework of the UN Charter and bilateral and multilateral agreements which are still...

Taken away from their children, dozens of Palestinian women are suffering abuse in Israeli prisons, according to Palestinian activists.  In a recent report, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association said Israeli authorities are holding 51 women, including nine injured...

Egypt says its security forces have killed 10 militants in a shootout in the city of el-Arish in the turbulent northern Sinai Peninsula. A statement Tuesday by the Interior Ministry said the shootout took place on a deserted farm used by the militants as a hideout. It did not say when...