With 81 Palestinian deaths reported in the last 24 hours in the latest Israeli forces bombardments on the besieged Gaza Strip, the total number of people killed in the enclave since last October has approached the grim mark of 36,000. At least 35,984 Palestinians have been killed in...

A Paris court has sentenced three members of Syria's Assad regime to life imprisonment for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes in a landmark trial. It is the first time that France has held a trial on abuses committed during Syria's civil war since 2011. The accused –...

NAFPLIO, Greece (AP) — A  group of Egyptians  jailed for nearly a year pending trial for a deadly shipwreck were released from jail Wednesday, a day after a Greek court threw out the case against them on grounds that it had no jurisdiction to try it. Nine Egyptians had been...

BEIRUT (AP) — Poverty in Lebanon tripled over the course of a decade during which the small Mediterranean country slid into a protracted financial crisis, the World Bank said Thursday. The percentage of people in Lebanon living below the poverty line rose from 12% in 2012 to 44% in 2022,...