U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began conducting secondary medical checks on migrant children after two children died in their custody. The CBP said in a statement Tuesday it would conduct checks on all children in their custody, with a focus on those less than 10 years old....

U.S. Customs and Border Protection ordered medical checks on every child in its custody Tuesday after an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died, marking the second death of an immigrant child in the agency’s care this month. The death came during an ongoing dispute over border security...

 Head of Al-Ekhlas hospital in northern Idlib province has appealed to humanitarian and aid organizations to provide funds to the charity hospital that provides health care and treatment for 75,000 people in the opposition-held territory. Dr. Zuhair Qarrat said that the...

Gunmen shot a former lawmaker dead in southern port city of Karachi in a fresh wave of political violence, police said. Ali Raza Abidi, who had been elected twice as a member of the lower house -- the National Assembly -- from Karachi in 2008 and 2013 was ambushed by motorbike riding...