NEW YORK (AP) — Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, has died. He was 79. Corea died Tuesday of a rare form of cancer, his team posted on his website. His death...

Friends, family members and diplomats on Thursday demanded “accountability” for the death of Lebanese publisher and Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim. Slim, a 58-year-old political activist and commentator, was found dead with six bullets in his body last week on a deserted rural road in...

 Australia's highest court on Wednesday upheld a law that can keep extremists in prison after they have served their sentences. Five of the seven High Court judges dismissed a constitutional challenge by convicted terrorist Abdul Benbrika who remains in a Victoria state prison...

Lebanon should extend its full lockdown and 24-hour curfew another week as numbers of new COVID-19 cases remain "stubbornly high", Dr. Firass Abiad said Friday.