Reporting by Abdul Salam Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian Republican Guard officer complained of hunger to the Russians at a time when the administration of military appointments provided expired canned food to the army, causing several cases of poisoning in the regime-controlled...

Hong Kong has closed more than a dozen beaches after a palm oil spill washed foul-smelling, Styrofoam-like clumps ashore, the latest major environmental disaster to blight the territory's waters. The Chinese-controlled city closed two more beaches in the south of Hong Kong island on Tuesday,...

Venezuelan security forces have wielded excessive force to suppress protests, killing dozens and have arbitrarily detained 5,000 people since April, including 1,000 still in custody, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday. In preliminary findings based on 135 interviews...

The U.N. warned of a deepening crisis Tuesday after another asylum-seeker was found dead at a Pacific island detention camp, urging Australia to ensure protection for vulnerable refugees as closure of the facility nears. Canberra sends anyone who tries to enter the country by boat without a...