(AP) — Two people died and an estimated 20 to 25 people were injured in a shooting outside a banquet hall in South Florida, police said. The gunfire erupted early Sunday at the El Mula Banquet Hall in northwest Miami-Dade County, police told news outlets. The banquet hall...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Thousands of Ethiopians gathered in the nation's capital Sunday to protest outside pressure on the government over its brutal war in Tigray. Protesters at the rally in Addis Ababa carried banners that criticized the United States and others in the international...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt and Israel held high-level talks in both countries Sunday to shore up a fragile truce between Israel and the Hamas militant group and rebuild the Gaza Strip after a punishing 11-day war that left parts of the seaside enclave in ruins. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukry...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has married his fiancée, Carrie Symonds, in a small private ceremony that came at the end of a tumultuous week during which a former top aide said he was unfit for office. The couple wed Saturday at the Roman Catholic Westminster...

  Bodies of 13 Syrian army forces were found Saturday in the Syrian desert, two days after a group of 30 troops went missing in an area controlled by the Islamic State militants, local news site said Sunday.   Al-Sharqiya24 Network said the bodies of slain troops were found near the...

ROME (AP) — The three suspects in Italy’s cable car disaster that killed 14 people were allowed to leave prison Sunday after a judge indicated that most of the blame fell on a service technician who intentionally disabled the car's emergency brake because it kept locking spontaneously....

CAIRO (AP) — Workers dig and ferry wheelbarrows laden with sand to open a new shaft at a bustling archaeological site outside of Cairo, while a handful of Egyptian archaeologists supervise from garden chairs. The dig is at the foot of the Step Pyramid of Djoser, arguably the world’s oldest...

Bashar al-Assad has appointed Mohamed Khaled Nasri as a Director General of the Center for Scientific Studies and Research, succeeding Amr Armanazi who held the post for 22 years.   Nasri, who ran the Institute 1000 in the scientific research center, is considered as one the...

Syrian regime forces and allied militias have deliberately intensified artillery and missile bombardment on agricultural areas in rebel-held northwestern Syria, setting huge fires to wheat and barley crops, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.    The regime forces stationed in the...

  At least 252 Palestinian refugees from Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus, have been forcibly disappeared in the Syrian regime prisons since the conflict erupted 10 years ago, monitoring group said Saturday. The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria said 25 women...

Syria’s regime government on Saturday appointed a new  director for customs, following an anti-corruption campaign and a series of terminations for senior officials within the Finance Ministry.   Prime Minister Hussein Arnous assigned Majed Omran as the director general of customs,...

Dubai's property market is powering out of a six-year malaise as "lockdown dodgers" and wealthy international investors drive a buying frenzy that is breaking records and fuelling an economic recovery. Luxury villas are the hottest segment in the market, with European buyers in particular...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three rebel factions operating in the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army have merged on Friday, seeking to close ranks and form a unified military body.   The Sultan Mohamed Al-Fateh Division, Samarkand Brigade, and Al-Waqqas Brigade will be united under the...

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said Saturday it had foiled a Houthi attack south of the Red sea, the second such attack in less than a week. A coalition statement cited by the official Saudi news agency SPA said two booby-trapped boats were destroyed off the Yemeni port of Salif. The...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K., the Vietnamese health minister said Saturday. Nguyen Thanh Long said scientists examined the genetic makeup of the virus that had infected some recent...

Many refugee pupils from Syria have been made to feel welcome and have settled well in Northern Ireland's schools. But, for others, learning English remained a significant challenge to learning and making friends. That is according to research into support for Syrian refugee pupils...

ROME (AP) — When Italy won the Eurovision Song Contest with an over-the-top glam-rock performance, the victory signaled more than just a psychological boost for one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19: Held before a live, indoor audience of 3,500, the annual kitsch fest confirmed that...

 (AP) — Where is Sheikh Jaber? Kuwait was abuzz with the question as citizens on social media demanded to know the whereabouts of their 79-year-old former prime minister. He'd been ordered detained pending trial in an unprecedented move last month over the alleged embezzlement of millions...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Families arriving at the U.S. border with Mexico will have their cases fast-tracked in immigration court, the Biden administration said Friday, less than two weeks after it said it was easing pandemic-related restrictions on seeking asylum. Under the plan, families stopped...

A Russian hacker group known as Nobelium has launched another sweeping cyber attack, this time using the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) email system, Microsoft has said. The attack, which is suspected of targeting 3,000 email accounts at over 150 different organizations,...