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  PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Nearly a week after disaster struck, aid workers raced Thursday to get shelter, food, medicine…

  IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq’s self-ruled Kurdish region was holding long-delayed parliamentary elections on Sunday, a year after a…

  The Palestinian Authority filed a case Friday with the United Nations’ highest court asking its judges to order Washington…

  Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians, two of them children, and wounded dozens more, Palestinian health officials said, in the…

  BAGHDAD (AP) — Masked gunmen shot dead a human rights activist and mother of four outside a supermarket in…

  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament has ratified the international Arms Trade Treaty, angering Hezbollah legislators, some of whom walked…

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Prosecutors in Bahrain say they have launched a mass prosecution of 169 defendants…

  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Gaza Strip’s economy is in “free fall,” a report from the World Bank warned Tuesday,…

  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey said Sunday it would take steps to create “safe zones” across northern Syria, including in…

  ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A meeting of OPEC and its allies ended without any decision to further increase oil…

    Hajar Youssif was on her daily commute to work, staring at her phone and flicking through her Instagram…

  Lebanon’s army says a child has drowned after a boat carrying 39 migrants hoping to get to Europe capsized…

  BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — The death toll from weeks of fighting between armed groups in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, has…

  DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — Marc van Bloemen has lived in the old town of Dubrovnik, a Croatian citadel widely…

  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon says FBI Director Christopher Wray has expressed support to the Lebanese army during a visit…

  SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — European Union leaders agreed Thursday to enter talks with Egypt to help stem the flow…

  BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia said Wednesday his group may reduce the number of its…

  ISTANBUL (AP) — Chinese authorities are placing the children of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities into dozens of state-run orphanages across…

  TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was re-elected as head of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party in…

  TAANAYEL, Lebanon (AP) — Every part of Lebanon’s national drink, arak, is infused with tradition — from distilling the…