A hospital in Gaza stopped services Monday after it ran out of fuel, the health ministry said, in a further example of a severe electricity shortage facing the blockaded Palestinian enclave. Beit Hanoun hospital in northern Gaza had "suspended medical services because of the...

Schools, clinics and food distribution centers in the Gaza Strip were closed Monday due to a one-day strike by the 13,000 employees of the United Nations agency that serves the Palestinians. The Palestinian employees have been angered by a U.S. decision to cut its annual...

A teenage mother who let her baby starve to death so she could party with friends has been jailed for just six and a half years. Viktoria Kuznetsova, 17, from Rostov, Russia, sat emotionless as her sentence was read out in court. The court was told that Kuznetsova had been planning...

More than half of the first line of the TurkStream natural gas pipeline project to deliver 35 percent of Turkey's gas needs has been completed, Gazprom officials, the project constructor, told visiting Turkish journalists at Novy Urengoy, Russia's biggest gas field and the world's...