Rescue teams were searching Friday through rubble for missing people near the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon where an Israeli strike hit a civil defense center the night before, killing at least ...

Police and hundreds of demonstrators clashed Friday in Georgia's separatist region of Abkhazia as tensions flared over a proposed measure that would allow Russians to buy property there.

A Pakistani province declared a health emergency Friday due to smog and imposed a shutdown in two major cities.

Malaysia has protested new maritime laws in the Philippines that it says encroach on its territory, a government official said Friday.

A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an act of hate is expected to be sentenced Friday to life in prison.

Energy companies from Persian Gulf states have expressed interest in searching for natural gas off the southern coast of Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said Friday.