Seven bomb explosions have rocked the coastal cities of Tartous and Jableh in western Syria, leaving at least 101 people dead. ... More
Israeli border police officers together with a number of passersby have violently beaten up a young Palestinian man outside a supermarket in Tel Aviv. ... More
U.S. President Barack Obama says he will not apologize to Japan over the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, emphasizing that looking forward and not backward will instead be the focus of his upcoming trip to the country.... More
U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s campaign is far smaller than that of the likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in terms of finance and infrastructure, a new report says.... More
A new survey in the United States shows that eighty percent of Republican voters want party leaders to step in line behind Trump in spite of any differences of opinion.... More
George Zimmerman said he has sold the gun he used to kill unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012 for $250,000, according to reports on television stations in Orlando and Las Vegas.... More
Thousands of Palestinians have staged a protest rally in the besieged Gaza Strip, calling for an end to the nine-year Israeli siege of the coastal enclave. The rally was organized by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of Nakba Day (the Day of Catastrophe). ... More
European authorities estimate that nine out of ten refugees and asylum seekers paid between $3,400 to $6,800 USD each to smugglers. ... More
The United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) says some 25 Palestinian children were killed in the last three months of 2015 during a wave of anti-Israeli protests in the occupied territories. ... More
Pope Francis has condemned "bloodsuckers" who grow rich by exploiting others, saying that abusing and overworking employees is nothing other than modern day slavery. The head of the Catholic Church said: "To live from the blood of others is a mortal sin! And it requires penitence, much restitution to be absolved of this sin." ... More
British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that leaving the European Union (EU) would cost Britain billions of pounds in infrastructure investment deemed as an economic risk to the country. ... More
Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office has expressed concern over an increase in the number of arson attacks on refugee shelters amid growing anti-asylum seeker sentiment in the European country. ... More
The National Rifle Association (NRA), a major American gun lobby group, has endorsed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's bid for the White House. ... More
The lower house of the Argentinean Congress has approved a bill aimed at freezing the dismissal of workers in the country, but the government of President Mauricio Macri has pledged to veto the bill. ... More
In Chile, the Supreme Court has asked the United States to extradite three former agents who worked for the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. ... More
