Education ministry circulates handbook encouraging teaches to discipline students violating 2004 law outlawing religious symbols

Education ministry initiates disciplinary action against female high school teacher who slept with 10th grader, after prosecutors choose not to file charges

Arab legislators, activist who has alleged police broke his leg during May demonstration among attendees

'As far as I understand, the parties are satisfied,' Vasily Nebenzya tells reporters on reported agreement for Tehran's troops to withdraw from southern Syria

Hundreds of Jordanians demonstrate in Amman and other cities, calling for the 'fall of the government,' amid growing financial woes

Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Gettleman's adventurous coming of age tale has all the Hollywood elements: brushes with death and the near-loss of his long-term love

A wary EU congratulates new Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, whose government is led by the Five Star Movement and the far-right League

Rabbi says rejection of community, converted under Conservative auspices, 'is completely inconsistent with more than two decades of Israeli practice'