REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — In one of Mexico's most notorious cities for organized crime, migrants are expelled from the United States throughout the night, exhausted from the journey, disillusioned about not getting a chance to seek asylum and at a crossroads about where to go next....

Online taxi booking apps, which recently have been widespread across Syria, helped launch a phenomenon of women-only taxi with services provided by women for women. The idea has recently reached the central city of Homs, despite the poverty that overcame its residents for years....

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil currently accounts for one-quarter of the entire world’s daily COVID-19 deaths, far more than any other single nation, and health experts are warning that the nation is on the verge of even greater calamity. The nation’s seven-day average of 2,400 deaths...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — As Myanmar’s military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade Saturday in the country's capital, soldiers and police elsewhere reportedly killed dozens of people as they suppressed protests in the deadliest bloodletting since last month's coup....

SUEZ, Egypt (AP) — A giant container ship remained stuck sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal for a fifth day Saturday, as authorities made new attempts to free the vessel and reopen a crucial waterway whose blockage is disrupting global shipping and trade. Meanwhile, the head of the Suez...

The giant cargo ship wedged in Egypt’s Suez Canal is forcing Syria to begin rationing its distribution of fuel as shipments are expected to be delayed, the war-torn nation's Oil Ministry said Saturday. A giant container ship remained stuck sideways, blocking the Suez Canal for a fifth...

Syrian army's Fourth Division on Saturday sent reinforcements to the central Homs province amid an unprecedented rise in the Islmaic State attacks in the Syrian desert, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The military convoy of the elite Fourth Division left early Saturday the town of Qalaat...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — As Myanmar’s military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade Saturday in the country's capital, soldiers and police elsewhere reportedly killed dozens of people as they suppressed protests in the deadliest bloodletting since last month's coup....

A giant container ship remained stuck sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal for a fifth day Saturday, as authorities prepared to make new attempts to free the vessel and reopen a crucial east-west waterway for global shipping. The Ever Given, a Panama-flagged ship that carries cargo between...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — As Myanmar’s military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade Saturday in the country's capital, soldiers and police elsewhere reportedly killed dozens of people as they suppressed protests against last month's coup. A count issued by an...

 Four Syrian people, two women and two children, have frozen to death in a border region between Syria and Lebanon while they were trying to reach Lebanon illegally, Lebanese media outlets said Friday. The four victims were left behind by Lebanese smugglers in...

Hamas announced the appointment of a Palestinian woman as a member in its political bureau for the first time since its creation. Jamila Al-Shanti, 64, is the first woman to become a member of its bureau. Speaking to Anadolu Agency she said that she came to this position not by...

Lebanon's outgoing prime minister, Hassan Diab, said on Friday that experts had found "dangerous chemicals" at a warehouse at the Zahrani oil installations in the south. Diab said the country's atomic energy authority had identified the substances as "nuclear" after reviewing a report by...

A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels Friday outside the Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course as dredgers worked frantically to free a giant container ship that is stuck sideways in the waterway and disrupting global shipping. One salvage expert said freeing...

Two trains collided on Friday in southern Egypt, apparently after someone activated the emergency brakes, killing at least 32 people and leaving 108 injured, Egyptian authorities said. Dozens of ambulances rushed to the scene in the southern province of Sohag, according to a statement by...

The UN has urged the UK not to go ahead with expected significant cuts in aid to Syria next week, warning that the move could further destabilise the wartorn country and backfire on Britons. The warning from the UN’s chief humanitarian coordinator, Mark Lowcock, comes before a...

A Turkish court on Friday sentenced two former police chiefs and a former military officer to life terms in prison over the 2007 killing of prominent Armenian-Turkish newspaper editor Hrant Dink, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported. The slain journalist’s family and lawyers insisted,...

The Syrian National Army has arrested ten people operating for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northern Aleppo province, such a move follows a series of bomb attacks hit the opposition areas. The Third Corps in the National Army released a video recording that includes...

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Ethiopia's prime minister said Friday that Eritrea has agreed to withdraw its forces from the Tigray region, where witnesses have described them looting, killing and raping civilians. The statement by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office comes after intense pressure...

The Iraqi army on Thursday said it was redeploying and repositioning troops along the Syrian border in the country's northeast. The move comes a day after the country launched a major operation against remnants of Islamic State group in Makhmour district of Nineveh governorate....