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Judges say decision should be made by parliament but stress that such unions should not face discrimination...

The Palestinian Authority’s official news agency published comments on Sunday by President Mahmoud Abbas that criticized Hamas over its actions but later removed reference to the militant group without providing an explanation.

The Swiss branch of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) has issued an official letter in protest to the Langmatt Museum’s decision to sell three prime works by Paul Cézzane at Christie’s New York in November, the Art Newspaper reported Thursday. The museum has said the sale will save the Baden, Switzerland-based...

There’s little that compares to the feeling of walking into place and being immediately comfortable, your shoulders loosen, your breathing slows, and you relax, knowing you can be yourself. Finding those spaces has often been hard for the LGBTQ+ community. America, and hopefully the world, is coming around to the fact that the...

Kim Jong-un wrote to Vladimir Putin promising to boost ties as North Korea and Russia marked the 75th anniversary of bilateral relations....

Work-from-home made living in the suburbs a lot more expensive, and that’s unlikely to change even as more people return to the office.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday told Palestinians to “stop their harassment” of Israelis and for both sides to respect the rules of war, as fighting raged in Gaza....

Qatari mediators have held urgent calls to try to negotiate freedom for Israeli women and children seized by the militant group and held in Gaza in exchange for the release of 36 Palestinian women and children from Israel’s prisons, a source briefed on the talks told Reuters....

Islamic Jihad chief Ziad al-Nakhala said on Sunday that his faction was holding captive more than 30 of the Israelis who were abducted in the Gaza Strip since Saturday after Hamas launched attacks on Israel....

High-level Iranian officials were also reported to have met with members of Hamas leadership in Lebanon last month....

Rescuers found more bodies overnight as they dug through slushy debris and ice-cold water in a hunt for survivors after a glacial lake burst through a dam in India’s Himalayan northeast, washing away houses and bridges and forcing thousands to flee....

Narges Mohammadi, the most prominent jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for fighting the oppression of women in the country....

Pakistan’s government announced a major crackdown Tuesday on migrants in the country illegally, saying it would expel them starting next month and raising alarm among foreigners without documentation who include an estimated 1.7 million Afghans....