Iran's semi-official Fars news agency is reporting that 230 people have been poisoned by drinking polluted water in the county's southwest
Greek Cypriot pensioner plans to build home in divided island's Turkish north, triggering unease among locals
After years of rocket attacks and militant infiltrations from Gaza, residents of southern Israel are now coping with a new kind of threat: incendiary kites and balloons that have damaged farmlands and nature reserves
Israel opening new national natural history museum in Tel Aviv in wake of public debate over evolution
The Israeli military says it has struck Hamas militant sites in Gaza in response to the resumption of rocket fire toward Israel
A prominent American economist says getting rid of fossil fuels by mid-century and switching to renewable energy sources and nuclear power offers the best chance of meeting the climate change targets set out by the Paris accord
France's former prime minister calls US pullout from Paris climate deal 'dangerous nonsense'
Thousands of Iraqis arrested on suspicion of ties to the Islamic State group are being rushed through counterterrorism courts in trials that raise questions over whether justice is being done
Saudi media are reporting a proposal to dig a maritime canal along the kingdom's closed border with Qatar, turning the peninsula-nation into an island and further isolating it