Deputy mayor of Israel's Jerusalem municipality, Meir Turjeman, has announced the suspension of all construction activity in Arab parts of the city, Israeli Radio reported. The move, announced Monday night, came in response to a Sunday shooting attack in East Jerusalem in which two Israelis...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 people, mostly children, were killed by explosion hit a school in the southern Syrian city of Daraa on Tuesday, activists and local monitoring group said. Opposition factions denied any responsibility for the attach as regime-run news agency reported. SANA said...

Russian jets resumed heavy bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Tuesday after several days of relative calm, a rebel official and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Air strikes mostly hit the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood, Zakaria Malhifji of the...

The death toll from the collapse of four residential buildings in an industrial district of the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang has risen to 22. State news agency Xinhua reported that rescuers pulled six survivors from the rubble by the time their search was wrapped up at around 1 a.m....