BEIJING (AP) — A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in southern China on Monday, officials said, in the country's worst air disaster in nearly a decade. There was no immediate word on survivors. The Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement...

Ukrainian officials defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol lay down arms and raise white flags Monday in exchange for safe passage out of the besieged strategic port city. Even as Russia intensified its attempt to pummel Mariupol into surrender, its offensive in...

LVIV, Ukraine — An ammonia leak at a chemical plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy has contaminated an area with a radius of more than 2.5 kilometers (about 1.5 miles), officials said early Monday. Sumy regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy didn’t say what caused the leak. The...

The Lebanese Hezbollah militia on Sunday sent new military reinforcements in the desert city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs. Zaman al-Wasl reporter, quoting private sources, said that the reinforcements came from the city of Deir Ezzor, including a convoy of 50 militants with...