Nyoman Sidekarya, chief of the provincial search and rescue agency that covers the Indonesian island of Lombok, tells The Associated Press that the death toll from the earthquake that hit the island on Sunday is now 227. Several agencies have been releasing higher death toll figures...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As hundreds of Syrian refugees seek a voluntarily return to Syria , the Lebanese General Security announced its will to create centers to register refugees after earlier outlining conditions for returnees who are in violation of residency requirements, including lifetime bans...

Aid began reaching isolated areas of the Indonesian island struggling after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 131 people, while rescuers Wednesday doubled down on efforts to find the dead, pulling another body from the rubble. Volunteers and rescue personnel were erecting more...

At least 11 people were shot and killed and about 70 others were wounded over the weekend in Chicago, in a spasm of gun violence that police attributed mostly to gangs and that the president's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, used to criticize the city's Democratic leadership. The violence peaked...