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After spending four months in Tehran's Evin Prison, a Woodrow Wilson Center scholar was back at work Monday. Haleh Esfandiari, who runs the Middle East program at the Washington-based center, met with reporters to talk about her time in captivity.

Israel has no problem sitting down at an upcoming Mideast peace conference with Syria, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says. That announcement came as Olmert said his country is not interested in friction with Syria.

A base housing African Union forces has been left a smouldering ruin after an unprecedented rebel assault on the peacekeeping contingent. As many as 40 soldiers have been killed.

Russian troops appear to be at the entrance of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and are engaged in active combat. Footage shows what looks like a fire in one of its administrative buildings.

Local authorities have placed up to 300,000 people under evacuation warnings in one of the country's worst flooding incidents.

In the most dramatic step a Big Tech company has taken against Russia, Apple says Russians will no longer be able to purchase Apple merchandise and access to Apple Pay is also restricted.

Amazon will face two union elections at once. Federal officials have set a union vote for Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse, coinciding with the ongoing re-do election in Bessemer, Ala.

The children were still clutching their flowers as they sat in custody. Police reportedly threatened mothers with losing their parental rights.

The Supreme Court says it will hear arguments next term in a major gun rights case. It will be the first time it has waded into the issue in more than 10 years.

Preply is collecting messages of hope and love from around the world to share with Ukrainian refugees in Poland.