Top congressional lawmakers struck a late-night agreement on the last major obstacle to a Covid-19 economic relief package costing nearly $1 trillion, clearing the way for votes as early as Sunday. A Democratic aide said in an email that an agreement had been reached late Saturday and that...

Nearly 60% of people in France are dissatisfied with President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Jean Castex, revealed the latest online survey. Conducted by the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP), a total of 1,936 people aged 18 and above participated in the survey. According...

Contradicting his secretary of state and other top officials, President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested without evidence that China — not Russia — may be behind the cyber espionage operation against the United States and tried to minimize its impact. In his first comments on the...

The Iraqi Parliament on Saturday commemorated the first anniversary of the killing of Iranian General Qasim Soleimani in a US drone airstrike. Soleimani was killed along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy leader of Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi militia or Popular Mobilization Forces...

Iran and Pakistan on Saturday opened a new border crossing point, in a move likely to bolster business and trade between the two neighboring countries. The Rimdan-Gabd border gateway was officially thrown open in the presence of officials from the two countries, becoming the second...

Those who threaten Turkey with sanctions will end up disappointed, the nation's president said on Saturday. "We are determined to put across that Turkey will never hesitate to use its sovereign rights," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a highway opening. "They tried to confront...

Tunisia and Palestinian territory Gaza announced more coronavirus fatalities early Saturday as they continued efforts to contain the disease.   Tunisian Health Ministry reported that 58 more people died due to the virus, and 1,616 new cases were identified. The total deaths...

Israel has destroyed more than 100,000 olive trees in the West Bank since 2010, according to Palestinian NGOs. “Israeli settlers have uprooted, burned down and chemically poisoned 101,988 olive trees since 2010,” Nazeh Fkhaida, director of the Palestinian Agricultural Damage...

A fire broke out Saturday at an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients in southern Turkey after an oxygen cylinder exploded, killing eight people, state-run media reported. The Anadolu news agency said the fire took place at the privately-run Sanko University Hospital unit in...

 A major US air base north of Kabul was targeted in a dawn rocket attack on Saturday but there were no casualties or damage to the airfield, officials said. Five rockets were fired at Bagram Airfield at 6:00 am, said Parwan province spokeswoman Waheeda Shahkar, adding that police...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — More than four months after the largest explosion in Lebanon’s history sent a shock wave of death and destruction through Beirut, not a single official has accepted responsibility for the blast or publicly explained how a stockpile of explosive material was left unsecured in...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday it was clear that Russia was behind the widespread hacking of government systems that officials this week called “a grave risk” to the United States. Mr. Pompeo is the first member of the Trump administration to publicly link the Kremlin...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he was doing fine a day after testing positive for COVID-19, but was working at a slower pace while he convalesced. Macron said he would stay focused on France's response to the coronavirus pandemic and Brexit, as negotiations governing 1...

Mexican driver Sergio Perez will replace Alexander Albon at Red Bull next season, the Formula One outfit announced on Friday. Perez, who was out of contract with Racing Point, will race alongside Max Verstappen for the Milton Keynes-based team in 2021. The popular driver put himself in...

Tech giants have changed our daily lives but governments around the world are worried they are out of control. Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft -- dubbed the GAFAM -- are accused of not paying enough taxes, unfair competition, stealing media content and threatening democracy by...

The World Health Organization and partners said Friday that the Covax facility, created to ensure equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines worldwide, expected to begin delivering jabs early next year. Announcing the agency had secured nearly two billion doses of vaccine candidates, the WHO...

The Saudi-Led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Friday it destroyed a marine mine laid by Iran-aligned Houthis in the southern Red Sea, and that the mine is Iranian-made, Saudi state TV reported.

The UN mission in Libya announced the formation of a legal committee consisting of members of the Libyan Forum for Political Dialogue, which will work on the necessary arrangements for the elections in the country. The elections in Libya are scheduled for Dec. 24, 2021. The first...

As Israel prepares to give COVID-19 vaccines to its citizens, Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza are scrambling to secure their own doses, which health authorities say are still months away. Palestinian leaders have cast a wide net in their search, contacting...

US President Donald Trump startled Moroccans when he revealed brokering a normalisation deal with Rabat, as public attention was focused entirely on developments in the Sahara. However, the royal office statement made it clear that Morocco is engaging in a new phase in its regional positions....