UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Donors pledged about $160 million for the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, but it still needs over $100 million to support education for more than half a million children and provide primary health care for close to 2 million people and emergency cash assistance...

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Health Ministry said Monday authorities have detected the country's first case of monkeypox in a person who returned from abroad and is now isolating at home. The ministry said the person is stable and that authorities are tracking the person's contacts. It did not...

Iran's former top military commander Qassem Soleimani was killed to stop a plot against 500 Americans, according to former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.  "General Soleimani was engaged in a plot to kill another 500 Americans. We had the opportunity to take down that plot, and we...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called on Lebanon to respect the verdict of a UN-backed court on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005. "The Secretary General's thoughts are with the victims of the 14 February attack and their families,"...