FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Some 130 countries have agreed on a global minimum tax backed by U.S. President Joe Biden as part of a worldwide effort to keep multinational firms from dodging taxes by shifting their profits to countries with low rates. The agreement announced Thursday is...

"I would rather take my own life here in Denmark than go back to Syria!". This was what I heard from Syrian refugees in Denmark in response to the Danish government's decision to strip them of their residency permits, claiming it is now safe for them to return to Syria. ...

 Ibrahim Arab waits in line several hours a day in the hot summer sun to buy gas for his taxi. When he's not working, the 37-year-old father of two drives from one Beirut pharmacy to another, looking for baby formula for his 7-month-old son — any he can find — even though the infant...

The Palestinian refugees of Daraa camp and Daraa Al-Balad are facing difficult conditions due a siege a imposed by Syrian regime forces on southern Daraa city last week amid high prices and the loss of food and medicine, a Palestinian monitoring said Wednesday.   The Action Group for...