Tokyo will cancel all public Olympics viewing events in an effort to reduce the risk of coronavirus infections, the city governor said Saturday. Having postponed the Games for a year because of the pandemic, Japan has already banned overseas spectators -- in an Olympics first -- while...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief won the country’s presidential election in a landslide victory Saturday, propelling the supreme leader’s protege into Tehran’s highest civilian position in a vote that appeared to see the lowest turnout in the Islamic...

More than 15 Syrian-Palestinian refugees were arrested after their return from Europe or neighboring countries to Syria, a Palestinian rights monitoring said Thursday.   Among the detainees, 13 people who were arrested after their return from Lebanon, a refugee after returning from...

    Colonel Wassim Hassan, the former director of Sednaya prison, died of a heart attack on Saturday, the Sednaya Prison Detainees and Missing Association said.   The Sednaya slaughterhouse had witnessed during Hassan’s era the execution of at least 500 opposition rebels...