By OHAD ZWIGENBERG and TIA GOLDENBERG Associated Press BEN-GURION INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Israel (AP) — A missile launched by Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen briefly halted flights and commuter traffic at Israel's main international airport on Sunday after its impact near an access road ...

PARIS (AP) — The United Nations agency that promotes education, science and culture and also works for the preservation of outstanding cultural and natural heritage around the world is abruptly losing one of its 194 member states. It marks a blow to the Paris-based body that is also in U.S. ...

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British counterterrorism officers arrested four Iranian men over an alleged plot to attack an unspecified target and three others over a national security threat, police said Sunday. The government called them the biggest "counter state threat ...

By ALI SHARAFEDDINE and KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press HARET HREIK, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanese voted Sunday in the country's first local elections in almost a decade, months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah. The first round of voting, which is taking ...

By JAMEY KEATEN and FARNOUSHI AMIRI Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — United Nations officials have circulated proposals for a vast consolidation of its operations and other sweeping reforms to root out inefficiencies, overlaps and cost overruns as the world body faces a critical ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's government on Friday rejected a ruling from the United Nations' top court ordering the South American country to refrain from holding elections for officials who supposedly would oversee a resource-rich region in neighboring Guyana that both nations claim ...