Egypt's parliament on Monday approved a legislative amendment to toughen the punishment for children abduction. As per amended penal code, the death sentence or life imprisonment (25 years) would be awarded if the child is subjected to sexual abuse after being abducted, the parliament...

The representatives of various U.K.-based non-profit organizations reacted on Monday to a recent ban on their members from entering Israel. Israel on Sunday banned representatives of 20 NGOs working in the country from its territory due to their support for a campaign opposed to the...

Conjoined twin girls born in the blockaded Gaza Strip were separated in "successful" surgery in Riyadh Monday, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said in a statement. Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Rabiah, who headed the team that operated on Farah and Haneen at the King Abdullah...

The U.N. migration agency has raised the probable death toll to 64 in the weekend sinking of a smugglers' rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya. The Italian coast guard, hours after the boat started sinking Saturday due to a puncture, rescued 86 people from it and retrieved...