At least 18 people, mainly schoolchildren and teachers, were killed Thursday in a flash flood near Jordan's Dead Sea that happened while they were on an outing, rescuers and hospital workers said. Thirty-four people were rescued in a major operation involving police helicopters and...

 A Yemeni hospital official says the death toll from an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition near the flash-point Red Sea port of Hudaida has climbed to 19. The director of the Bayt el-Faqih Hospital, Abdullah Shahawi, says all the victims are civilians. The airstrike, which hit an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At a time when government agencies were honoring and hailing the medical achievements of the Mouwasat hospital in Damascus for carrying a successful operation or holding a medical conference, a number of accusations against the hospital came to the fore.  The last...

A Peruvian court postponed Sunday a ruling on a prosecutor's demand to put opposition leader Keiko Fujimori in preventive detention for 36 months, which she called a conspiracy to "bury" her presidential hopes. Anti-corruption prosecutor Jose Domingo Perez had asked the court to hold Fujimori...