Four people were killed and others were injured in a shooting on Sunday in the Palestinian camp of Burj al-Shemali in Lebanon, two officials of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas told Reuters, and they blamed the rival movement Fatah for the bloodshed. Fatah condemned the incident,...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A spike in violence has deepened hunger and poverty in Haiti while hindering the very aid organizations combating those problems in a country whose government struggles to provide basic services. Few relief workers are willing to speak on the record about the...

UN special envoy Geir Pedersen called Sunday for a “step for step” approach in finding a political solution to Syria’s conflict, following his tour of Europe, the US, and Arab states. Several rounds of United Nations-brokered negotiations in Geneva since 2019 between the government and...

LONDON (AP) — The British government may need to introduce tougher restrictions to slow the growth of the omicron variant and prevent a new surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, British scientists said Saturday. U.K. health officials say omicron is spreading much more quickly than...