(CNN) ISIS claimed responsibility for bombings that killed 36 at two Coptic churches in Egypt on Palm Sunday -- brazen strikes against a vulnerable minority on one of the most important days on the Christian calendar.

Indian police are reviewing reports of missing children to try to identify a girl who was found living in a forest with a group of monkeys.

A “once in 500-year” flood is swallowing up large parts of the east coast of New Zealand, as the tail-end of ex-cyclone Debbie sweeps east after devastating large parts of Australia. States of emergency have been declared in numerous regions in the North Island, after rivers burst their banks following two days of heavy rain and gale-force winds.

April 6, (Agencies): Philippine security forces arrested a Kuwaiti and a five-month pregnant Syrian for suspected links to Islamic State three months after they arrived, authorities said on Thursday. Kuwaiti Husayn Al-Dhafiri and Syrian Rajaf Zina had been living and working in Manila since January before they were arrested on March 25 in an upscale commercial district, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre told reporters.

UN to investigate potential war crimes after dozens were killed in Idlib attack US says 'cannot be ignored'.

To cater to the increasing demands of the Indian community in Kuwait, passport, visa and attestation services will be outsourced to two different agencies which will open a total of 6 embassy outsourcing centers across the Kuwait. Civil Aviation of India had already approved the request of two India-based private Airlines Indigo Airways and Go Air to start their service to Kuwait.

The United Kingdom has followed the United States in banning electronic devices on passenger flights from several Muslim-majority countries, reports say.

EY’s experience with major companies in the region highlights an increasing level of concern that the lack currently of official guidance from government ministries is posing an increasing risk that the business sector will face significant challenges in preparing for VAT implementation by the proposed effective date. The results of a recent survey of participants at EY webcasts on GCC VAT are concerning with 50% of the businesses surveyed reporting that they have not started any preparations. Only 11% of respondents reported that they have evaluated the changes that are needed to their financial, operational and information technology processes (enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems).

WASHINGTON, March 9, (Agencies): US President Donald Trump’s administration is weighing a deployment of up to 1,000 American soldiers to Kuwait to serve as a reserve force in the fight against Islamic State as US-backed fighters accelerate the offensive in Syria and Iraq, US officials told Reuters.

Dubai - A proposed project to build a railway system to connect Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member nations is necessary to ensure sustained development, GCC Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani said on Tuesday.