The World Health Organization said Tuesday it was helping Yemeni authorities with a second round of vaccination against cholera in three hard-hit districts, as cases surged across the war-ravaged country. More than 2,500 people have died of the waterborne infection since the worst...

Germany will next year end its reconnaissance and air-to-air refueling missions that are part of U.S.-led operations against Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, the government decided Tuesday, a document seen by Reuters showed. Germany, whose Nazi past makes military action a sensitive...

Three researchers Tuesday shared the Nobel Physics Prize for inventions in the field of laser physics which have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in industry and medicine, the jury said. Arthur Ashkin of the United States won one half of the prize, while Gerard...

At least seven people were killed in a suicide attack on an Afghan election campaign rally Tuesday, an official said, in the latest violence ahead of this month's legislative vote. Another 25 people were wounded when the militant blew himself up among supporters of parliamentary...

Libya has closed the only functioning airport in the capital Tripoli again after rockets were fired in its direction, officials said Tuesday, days after flights had resumed following an earlier shutdown. Matiga airport, a former air base used for commercial flights since the main...

A team of ornithologists in Ecuador has identified a new species of hummingbird: a lovely blue-green creature that lives in a cold, barren highland area and is danger of extinction. Team leader Francisco Sornoza saw one of the birds through binoculars a year ago and had a hunch that it...

Canada's Justin Trudeau Monday hailed a new continental trade pact with the United States and Mexico as "profoundly beneficial" for Canadians -- but the prime minister must now sell the deal to skeptical dairy farmers, unions and voters. The 11th-hour deal was reached late Sunday after...

Lebanon's foreign minister gathered ambassadors Monday near Beirut international airport in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah movement had secret missile facilities there. "Today Lebanon is raising (its) voice by addressing all countries of the world... to...

Over the last two days, three Russian Air Force An-124−100 Ruslan cargo planes flew to Hmeimim airbase in Syria, reports Eurasia Daily. The planes flew over the Caspian Sea and then Iran and Iraq. According to the reports, seven more IL-76 military cargo planes landed in Hmeimim airbase during...

Bones discovered at the foot of the Matterhorn have been identified as the remains of a Japanese national who disappeared on the iconic mountain four years ago, Swiss police said Monday. Police in the canton of Valais said that a 40-year-old climber, who had set out alone, disappeared...

A meeting between Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his Chinese counterpart has been canceled, a US defense official said Monday, amid rising tensions between the two nations. The Pentagon had been working on a plan for Mattis to travel to Beijing later this month to meet General Wei...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Over 700 Syrian refugees headed back to Syria Monday from Lebanon, in the latest of such returns organized by the General Security, the Lebanese Daily Star reported. Over the past few weeks, about 2000 Syrian refugees have returned to Syria, most of the refugees...

Russia has lost 112 servicemen during its three-year operation in Syria, a senior lawmaker said late Sunday in a news conference. "As of today, the losses of our armed forces in Syria stand at 112 people, with the crashes of An-26 and Il-20 accounting for about a half of them," Viktor...

The man at the center of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature was convicted Monday and sentenced to two years in prison for a rape in 2011. Jean-Claude Arnault, a major cultural figure in Sweden, had faced two...

The contemporary art market is booming with Chinese artists helping to push prices up by nearly a fifth in the past year, the world's biggest art index said Monday. Rocketing prices for living artists have for the first time become the motor of the market, Artprice told AFP. Nowhere is...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they launched a missile strike against a "terrorist" headquarters in Syria in retaliation for an attack that killed 24 people in the Iranian city of Ahvaz. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had vowed a "crushing" response to last month's assault --...

Two people have been killed in a powerful typhoon that battered Japan over the weekend, officials said Monday, as the storm's aftermath brought travel chaos to Tokyo's morning commute. By Monday morning, Typhoon Trami had cleared Japan, but its powerful winds and heavy rainfall caused...

The heavy and indiscriminate bombardments have been a standard since the first days of the intervention of Russian forces in Syria on September 30, 2018, which generated a state of panic and terrorization in the areas that broke away from the Syrian regime’s control, as it aimed to end all forms...

Israel is prepared to open its side of the crossing point with Syria following the return of the UN peacekeepers to the Golan Heights after four years, the army said Saturday. Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman "authorised the reopening of the Alpha gate of the Quneitra Crossing between...

When Hollywood stars and some of the world's top models get together it's usually their fans who get the goosebumps. But it was actresses Elle Fanning, Andie MacDowell, Eva Longoria and supermodels Winnie Harlow and Ming Xi who had the shivers from a chill breeze as they prepared to...