Knesset approves new coalition, ending Netanyahu's long rule
Bennett, the head of a small ultranationalist party, will have to maintain an unwieldy coalition of parties from the political right, left and center if he wants to keep the job
Major wreckage at hospital hit by artillery in north Syria
In a statement, the US State Department called for a nationwide cease-fire in Syria
Caution on Iran nuclear deal as G7 leaders vow to stop bomb
Sunday's bilateral meetings followed joint negotiations held Saturday involving senior diplomats from China, Germany, France, Russia, and Britain
40,000 jabs given in Lebanon Covid vaccine 'marathon'
Lebanon, home to more than six million people, has recorded over 542,000 infections, including over 7,700 deaths since last year
Lebanon currency drops to new low as financial meltdown deepens
Lebanon is in the throes of a deep economic meltdown that is threatening its stability. The World Bank has called it one of the deepest depressions of modern history
Algeria awaits results after voters snub election
Turnout was just 30.2 percent, electoral commission chief Mohamed Chorfi announced after Saturday's vote -- the lowest in a legislative poll at least 20 years.
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Climate change protests hit beach near G7 summit
Some protesters paddled out to sea, while others sunbathed on the beach wearing masks of leaders' faces
NATO leaders bid symbolic adieu to Afghanistan at summit: AP report
The 18-year war cost 47,000 Afghani civilians, up to 69,000 members of the national armed forces and police, and over 51,000 opposition fighters
Spain's right wing rejects any pardons for Catalan leaders
The demonstration has been organized by a civil society group in defense of the nation's unity, and it chose a central square that has become a symbol for far-right political rallies
China cautions G7: 'Small' groups don't rule the world
The re-emergence of China as a leading global power is considered to be one of the most significant geopolitical events of recent times, alongside the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union that ended the Cold War
As summit ends, G7 urged to deliver on vaccines, climate
They want to show that international cooperation is back after the upheavals caused by the pandemic and the unpredictability of former US President Donald Trump
Biden urges G7 leaders to call out and compete with China
Canada, the UK and France largely endorsed Biden's position, while Germany, Italy and the EU showed more hesitancy during Saturday's first session of the Group of Seven summit, sources said
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Pope demands food aid reach starving people of Tigray
Francis said he was thinking of the people of Tigray who have been 'struck by a grave humanitarian crisis that has exposed the poorest to famine. Today there is famine! There is hunger!'
US 'gravely concerned' by election conditions in violence-hit Ethiopia
"The United States is gravely concerned about the environment under which these upcoming elections are to be held," US State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement
More than five million Covid cases in Africa: AFP tally
A total of 5,008,656 cases of the coronavirus have been reported in 54 countries and territories, including almost 109,800 in the past seven days, for a daily average of 15,680
With military victory elusive, W.African nations quietly back talks with Islamists
For a decade, West African armies and their international allies have fought against militant groups active in the Sahel region, some linked to the al Qaeda and Islamic State networks
UN official accuses Eritrean forces of deliberately starving Tigray
More than 350,000 of Tigray's nearly 6 million people are living in famine conditions, according to an analysis by UN agencies and global aid groups
Over 30,000 children risk death in famine-hit Tigray: UN
'Without humanitarian access to scale up our response, an estimated 30,000-plus severely malnourished children in those highly inaccessible areas are at high risk of death,' UNICEF spokesman James Elder told reporters in Geneva
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