Israel's army has demolished the homes of nearly 80 Palestinian Bedouins in the occupied West Bank, officials and witnesses said Wednesday, in a rare operation targeting an entire community at once. Late Tuesday, Israeli bulldozers razed the village -- including tents, sheds, portable...

Turkey registered 2,302 more novel coronavirus patients over the past 24 hours, according to Health Ministry data released Monday. The country's overall tally now stands at 379,775, the ministry said. Some 1,521 more patients recovered over the past day, raising the count to 327,007,...

Russia's attempt to overturn its four-year ban from international sport got under way in Lausanne Monday, the latest chapter of a long-running and controversial saga over state-sanctioned doping. Global anti-doping body WADA in December last year declared the Russian Anti-Doping Agency...

A record high number of fires scorched Brazil's Amazon and Pantanal wetlands last month, official data showed on Sunday, as deforestation and climate change wreaked havoc on some of the planet's most valuable ecosystems. The Amazon rainforest has been described as the Earth's "lungs" due to...