The Islamic State (IS) militants have rigged the millennia-old city of Palmyra in central Syria with explosives, a monitor group reported on Sunday.
Nineteen militants were killed earlier on Wednesday in clashes between local jihadists and the Islamic State (IS) affiliate in the eastern Libyan city of Derna, according to a security source.
At least two people were confirmed dead Tuesday and 12 missing after severe storms battered Houston, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas, overnight.
Syria's pro-government National Defense Forces (NDF) withdrew Wednesday from the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria following large-scale offensive by the Islamic State (IS) group, according to the state-run Al-Ekhhariya TV reported.
More than 6,500 families have been displaced as Islamic State militant group have reached the Iraqi city of Ramadi, deputy UN spokesman Farhan Haq said here Monday at a daily news briefing.
Tens of thousands of ultra-nationalist Jews marched Sunday through east Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter, sparking scuffles between Palestinians and the police.
Saudi-led coalition forces intensified air bombings against several military bases and destroyed arms depots in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Tuesday, hours before a planned five-day humanitarian truce comes into force.
Israel's Supreme Court rejected Monday a petition to reroute an annual ultra-nationalistic Jewish parade that marches through a Palestinian neighborhood of East Jerusalem, with dozens of marchers shouting anti-Arab calls.
The Syrian army and allied fighters have made fresh progress on two main fronts in central and northern Syria against the al-Qaida-affiliated militant groups, where the rebels' defenses were reportedly collapsing, the official SANA news agency reported Sunday.
Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Wednesday asked the U.S. Justice Department to conduct a civil rights investigation into the city police practices after the death of 25-year-old African-American man Freddie Gray thrusted the city into the vortex of a heated national debate over police brutality in minority neighborhoods.
Newly sworn-in U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Tuesday visited Baltimore, Maryland, for the first time since rioting convulsed the city late April in a bid to help ease tensions.
Myanmar's Yangon region government will form a public bus service company to run the service in Yangon under the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system in a bid to reduce inconvenience to the public due to growing traffic jam, official media reported Tuesday.
Signs of peace showed on the streets of Baltimore Wednesday, a day after the riots-torn U.S. city declared a one-week long curfew.
A rare Chinese woodcut map of the Beijing city in the 19th century will be auctioned at Sotheby's in London on Thursday.
The extremist militant groups committed a massacre in a town they captured in northwestern Syria, killing over 30 civilians, mostly women and children, the state news agency SANA reported Sunday.
A total of 43 dinosaur egg fossils were found at a construction site in south China's Guangdong Province on Sunday afternoon.
The Chinese central government has approved the establishment of a third prefecture-level city in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, said a senior regional official on Sunday.
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