Four people died as Indonesia's capital was hit by flooding, a disaster agency official said Wednesday, while local media reported landslides sparked by torrential rain on New Year's Eve had killed several more residents. Electricity was switched off in hundreds of waterlogged...

Israel's offshore Leviathan field started pumping gas on Tuesday in what the operating consortium hailed as "a historic turning point" for the Israeli economy. A joint statement from partners Noble Energy, Delek Drilling, and Ratio said the start of production was expected to lead to an...

French President Emmanuel Macron will address the nation Tuesday in a bid to win support for a pension overhaul that has prompted the biggest transport strike in decades, upending travel plans for thousands over the holidays. The strike -- now the longest such transport stoppage since the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The city of Maaret al-Numan has turned into a relative ghost town as Russia-backed forces wage a crushing assault on northern Idlib province that uprooted about 280,000 people from their homes and killed more than 100 people in three weeks. Abadat al-Thikra,...