JERUSALEM - The Arab bloc in Israel's parliament abandoned its usual hands-off stance on Sunday and endorsed former military chief Benny Gantz for prime minister, potentially giving him the edge over hard-line incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu.
UNITED NATIONS - Several high-ranking officials and representatives from various missions to the United Nations on Friday shared their congratulations to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
PANGUITCH, Utah - Authorities in Utah on Saturday identified the four Chinese tourists killed in a bus crash in the US state, and the tour company is dispatching employees from China to help those injured.
TOKYO - A powerful typhoon is heading northeast to Japan's main island of Honshu on Sunday after lashing parts of the country's southern islands with heavy rains and winds that caused flooding and some minor injuries.
Africans may benefit from improved public services - and reduced corruption - if advocates of digital technology persuade governments across the continent to embrace change.
WASHINGTON - Despite the increasing frequency of mass shootings which have shocked the nation, gun reform legislation in the United States remains uncertain, as bipartisan negotiations are moving slowly in Washington.
The UN Security Council on Thursday rejected two competing resolutions to achieve a cessation of hostilities in Syria's Idlib Province, the last region in the war-torn nation to be largely held by rebels.
Three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, were acquitted on Thursday on charges of failing to prevent the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, meaning no one will be held criminally responsible for the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
MONROVIA, Liberia - a huge fire at a Liberian Koranic school killed at least 26 pupils and two teachers on Wednesday when flames engulfed their dormitory, in one of the worst disasters of its kind for the West African nation.
The recently appointed head of the US Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA, plans to climb into a flight simulator to test software updates for the Boeing 737 Max jet's anti-stall system when he visits the company in Seattle this week, a move one analyst called "theater".
UNITED NATIONS - the United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Thursday on a draft resolution calling for a truce in northwest Syria.
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