(AP) — House Democrats nominated Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday to be the speaker who guides them again next year as Joe Biden becomes president, and she quickly seemed to suggest these would be her final two years in the leadership post. The California Democrat, the first woman to be...

Israel launched air raids against what it called a wide range of Syrian and Iranian targets in Syria on Wednesday, sending a signal that it will pursue its policy of striking across the border despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s election defeat. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

The first results are out on vaccine trials which aim to provide immunity against the novel coronavirus. There is much to be optimistic about. US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German biotechnology firm BioNTech, co-founded by Turkish scientist Ugur Sahin, announced that their vaccine...

: Israeli protesters shouted down a group of European diplomats on Monday who were visiting the site of a planned settlement expansion in east Jerusalem that would make it even harder to establish a viable Palestinian state and could anger the incoming US administration. The diplomats went...