Israeli forces have detained seven Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military. A Thursday statement said the individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in hostile popular activities", without elaborating...

There are man-induced and natural fires in the Amazon rainforest but ongoing fires cannot be explained as natural, according to one of the senior officials of a non-profit environmental group. "Some 7,500 square kilometers (1.9 million acres) of forest were felled in 2018, and with the...

Turkey plans to resettle 1 million refugees in northern Syria and may reopen the route for migrants into Europe if it does not receive adequate international support for the plan, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday. Ankara, which hosts 3.6 million Syrian refugees, controls...

One person died and at least 34 were injured on Thursday when a truck and an express train with 500 people aboard collided in Japan’s second-largest city of Yokohama, setting the truck on fire and derailing half the train. The accident, which halted services on a busy rail link to the...