Besieged civilians of Daraa al-Balad, the capital of southern Daraa province, have made a public appeal to the Syrian regime to flee the city, seeking to escape a wide-scale attack by Russia-backed regime forces that left two people dead, local activists said Tuesday.   The...

BERLIN (AP) — An explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies shook the German city of Leverkusen on Tuesday, sending a large black cloud rising into the air. At least 16 people were injured and five remain missing. Germany’s Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster...

July 26 (Reuters) - The Delta variant is the fastest, fittest and most formidable version of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 the world has encountered, and it is upending assumptions about the disease even as nations loosen restrictions and open their economies, according to virologists...

KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the more than 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi. Church officials handed those children over to their parents at the school on...