The framework that currently governs Palestinian workers in Israel dates to 1994, when Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed to the Paris Protocol of the Oslo Accords. The protocol established that the Israeli shekel would...

DUBAI/LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - Iran reasserted its right on Friday to control shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and warned Gulf states against siding with the U.S., a day after an attack on...

PARIS/AMSTERDAM/BERLIN, June 26 (Reuters) - Health authorities across Europe were on high alert on Friday as a killer heatwave progressed across the continent, prompting alcohol bans in France and cracking road surfaces open in...

LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — In cities across northern Venezuela, neighbors helped each other dig through rubble to search for loved ones, after back-to-back earthquakes killed at least 589 people and left thousands injured.Acting...

Ukraine launched a major nighttime attack on a dozen Russian regions, Russian-held Crimea and the surrounding seas, Moscow’s Defense Ministry said Friday, in what appeared to be one of Kyiv’s biggest drone assaults since...

Urgent search and rescue efforts are underway for survivors of two powerful earthquakes in northern Venezuela that buckled and pancaked buildings and homes throughout the region on Wednesday evening, leaving an untold number dead...

Tim Pughsley always believed that he was more than just a bookie. Long before the ubiquity of FanDuel and DraftKings, he imagined himself as a C.E.O. of a major sports-gambling company, and the role...

Voting for Brexit was, of course, not the same as actually achieving it. Britain was convulsed for years by the difficulty of agreeing to terms of divorce with Europe. Would it be a “soft”...

“Let’s go talk to the ducks,” John Hickenlooper, the Democratic senator from Colorado, said. It was midafternoon on a rainy Tuesday, and Hickenlooper’s colleagues in the Senate were trying, after multiple failed attempts, to...

TOKYO (AP) — The head of the U.N.’s nuclear agency said Wednesday that Iranian nuclear enrichment sites would be visited by his inspectors as part of the interim U.S.-Iran deal to reach an end...