JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis on Sunday thronged the funeral of a prominent rabbi in Jerusalem, flouting the country's ban on large public gatherings during the pandemic. The funeral procession for Rabbi Meshulam Soloveitchik, who died at age 99, wended its way...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government has privately told Biden administration staffers its embattled Tigray region has “returned to normalcy,” but new witness accounts describe terrified Tigray residents hiding in bullet-marked homes and a vast rural area where effects of the...

A Russian court ordered house arrest Friday for the brother and aides of jailed Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny.  At Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, a hearing was held on grounds that the rules of sanitary and epidemiological were violated during unauthorized...

For those who have fled war to shelter in Syria's last rebel-held stronghold, suffering knows no end. A rainstorm lashing the country's northwest these days is spreading more misery, after rain and flooding less than two weeks ago killed one child and destroyed hundreds of tents,...