Iran's health ministry said Monday a total of 84 people have died and nearly 1,000 been poisoned from consuming bootleg alcohol over the past six weeks, ISNA news agency reported. Despite tough penalties against alcohol consumption since the Islamic revolution of 1979, the use of...

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire in fresh protests on the Gaza border Monday, the health ministry in the enclave said. Mohammad abu Abada, 27, was shot in the chest in protests along the border near Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, a health ministry spokesman told AFP. An...

Three Palestinians were killed Sunday in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip, the health ministry in the enclave said. Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said emergency crews were transporting the bodies of the dead, who appeared to be in their early teens, to hospital in Gaza....

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Sunday for the stepping up of efforts to fight enemy "infiltration" in a speech to officials in charge of cyber defense, state television reported. "In the face of the enemy's complex practices, our civil defense should ......