In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region once came to pray. Syria’s 13 ...

At least three migrants have died while attempting to cross the English Channel to Britain from northern France, authorities said. Rescuers aided 45 people stranded in the water and on the beach ...

You might’ve indulged in some of the final bites and slurps of your favorite food and drinks without even realizing it. This year marked the end for many foods and drinks, most notably Panera’s ...

Chadians are voting in a parliamentary and regional election that will end the three-year transitional period from military rule but which the main opposition is boycotting. Sunday’s parliamentary ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is having his prostate removed on Sunday, his office said, a procedure that comes as he manages multiple crises at once, including the ongoing war in Gaza and ...

Croatia’s left-leaning president, an outspoken critic of Western military support for Ukraine in its war against Russia, is running for reelection in the Adriatic Sea state, but is unlikely to get an ...

Iranian media say a suicide bomber killed a local police officer and wounded another in a southern Iranian port city, home to a large Sunni Muslim community. The hard-line Javan Daily, a newspaper ...

A Palestinian woman was shot and killed in her home in the volatile northern West Bank town of Jenin, where the Palestinian Authority is carrying out a rare campaign against militants. The family of ...

Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move for European Union nations. Health minister Frank Vandenbroucke ...

Bolivia will elect a new president in August and already, a political battle is looming between two adversaries, the country’s former leader Evo Morales and his onetime ally turned rival, President ...

Olha Mesheryakova doesn’t know what the next year will bring for her life in the capital of war-torn Ukraine, for her family or her business. She is confident, however, that in 2025 she will attend a ...

Associated Press Charles Dolan, who founded some of the most prominent U.S. media companies including Home Box Office Inc. and Cablevision Systems Corp., has died at age 98. Newsday reports that a ...