Prosecutors in the only criminal trial involving the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown has appealed against the acquittal of three former Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives.

Iraq and Syria have opened a key border crossing between the two neighboring countries, seven years after it was closed during Syria’s civil war.

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Iran says this month’s missile-and-drone attack by Yemen’s rebels on major Saudi oil sites was an act of 'legitimate defense' by the Iran-allied Houthis.

A Pakistani mountaineering official says an army helicopter has airlifted two British climbers to safety and that efforts are underway to rescue their three climbing partners stranded on a peak in the country’s north.

Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels on Monday launched two attacks on U.S. and European military targets, officials said.

Three of four inmates who overpowered two female corrections officers and escaped from an Ohio county jail were caught in North Carolina after slightly more than a day on the run, authorities in both states said.

The group stage of the Champions League is only one round old and already Chelsea faces a match it cannot afford to lose.

Lebanon’s central bank governor says the bank will secure foreign currency for some imports in a move that is expected to ease the demand for hard currency.

Egypt’s president says he’ll protect the poor and middle-class Egyptians hard hit by his government’s austerity measures.