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Yemeni government and Houthi delegations met in Amman on Saturday for the second day of a new round of prisoner swap talks, raising hopes for the release of hundreds of captives. The discussions, sponsored by the UN and the International…

A truck driver who expressed hated of Jews was convicted Friday of barging into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find, killing 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror for which he could be sentenced to die.…

Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar called Friday for a unified government of technocrats to organize long-delayed elections, in place of the rival administrations currently vying for control. Libya has been torn by more than a…

Interpol has issued an international warrant for a Lebanese man suspected of trafficking stolen antiquities, weeks after he was questioned in Lebanon, judicial officials said Friday. The Red Notice was unsealed 10 months after a criminal…

The Jordanian army said on Friday that units on the country’s eastern border shot down a drone carrying weapon parts from Syria. Border guards, in coordination with other security agencies, spotted the drone and downed it on Jordan’s…

A Lebanese tourism chief has called on the country’s political and security leaders to work together in helping create the conditions for a bumper summer season. Pierre Al-Ashkar, head of the Federation of Tourist Syndicates in Lebanon…

At least 125 Syrians were on board a migrant ship that sank off Greece this week, relatives and activists said Friday, as rescuers scoured the waters for hundreds feared missing. A blind 15-year-old boy and his 28-year-old sister from…

A son of Libya’s leader Muammar Qaddafi is suffering deteriorating health during the second week of a hunger strike to protest his detention in Beirut without trial, his lawyer said Friday. Hannibal Qaddafi is only drinking small amounts…

Russian firms are keen to develop further ties with the UAE, the country’s deputy prime minister has insisted in a speech lauding economic links between the two nations. Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Denis…

Archaeologists have found a pre-Hispanic mummy surrounded by coca leaves on top of a hill in Peru’s capital next to the practice field of a professional soccer club. A team from The Associated Press on Thursday viewed the skeleton with…