India recorded more than 90,000 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, health ministry figures show early Sunday. The figures are India’s highest daily spike since the pandemic began. Infections have reached 4.11 million and the number of fatalities stand at 70,626 with 1,065...

South Africa recorded 101 new deaths related to COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 14,779, the health minister announced. Zweli Mkhize said the country also registered 1,806 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, raising the total number of confirmed cases to 636 ,884....

Morocco is hosting consultations between Libya’s warring rivals to discuss ways of ending the country’s 10-year conflict, a Libyan official said Saturday.  "Meetings are currently underway between committees representing the Libyan government and the Tobruk parliament in Morocco...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday warned Greece to enter talks over disputed eastern Mediterranean territorial claims or face the consequences. "They’re either going to understand the language of politics and diplomacy, or in the field with painful experiences," he said at...

After nearly two months of being sedated and connected to IV lines in a hospital's intensive care unit, Francisco Espana took a moment to fill his ailing lungs with fresh air at a Barcelona beachfront. Lying on a hospital bed at the beach promenade and surrounded by a doctor and three...

Sudanese authorities declared their country a natural disaster area and imposed a three-month state of emergency across the country after rising floodwaters and heavy rainfall killed around 100 people and inundated over 100,000 houses since late July. The announcement was made late...

The Taliban's negotiating team has arrived in Qatar, a spokesman said Saturday, in a sign that long-delayed peace talks with the Afghan government are inching closer to starting. A date for the talks, to be hosted in Doha, has not been set but the warring sides have this week made...

Rescue teams kept up their search for survivors in Beirut Saturday even as hopes raised by sensor readings of a pulse beneath the rubble of last month's blast began to fade. The cataclysmic August 4 explosion in the port of Beirut killed at least 191 people, making it Lebanon's...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that there is a risk of famine and widespread food insecurity in four countries affected by conflict - Congo, Yemen, northeast Nigeria and South Sudan - and the lives of millions of people are in danger. In a note to Security Council members...

(Reuters) - After an outcry from U.S. lawmakers, President Donald Trump on Friday said his administration would not be shutting down the Stars and Stripes military newspaper as announced by the Pentagon earlier this year. “It will continue to be a wonderful source of information to our...

Argentine football superstar Lionel Messi will remain with Spain's Barcelona for a final season, a sports channel in Argentina said on Friday. "Lionel Messi will continue in Barcelona until June 30, 2021, the date on which his contract ends," TyC Sports said in an exclusive report....

The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Egypt Friday to release two jailed journalists, including one with Covid-19, after Human Rights Watch said four inmates had died in Egyptian custody within 72 hours. The CPJ, a New-York based press freedom advocacy group, called on authorities to...

The confirmed death toll from the coronavirus has gone over 50,000 in the Middle East as the pandemic continues. That's according to a count Thursday from The Associated Press, based on official numbers offered by health authorities across the region. Those numbers still may be an...

Belarus opposition challenger Svetlana Tikhanovskaya on Friday appealed for help from the United Nations and called for sanctions against those responsible for alleged electoral fraud and rights violations in her ex-Soviet country. Addressing a meeting of the UN Security Council by video...

A former United Nations official accused of drugging and sexually assaulting several women has been charged with lying to the FBI. Karim Elkorany, who worked as a telecommunications specialist in Iraq, was arrested Wednesday on two counts of making false statements to federal law...

Championship leader Lewis Hamilton topped the times ahead of team-mate Valtteri Bottas as Mercedes continued their emphatic domination in Friday afternoon's second practice for this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. The six-time champion responded to the Finn’s quickest lap in opening practice...

In the days that followed the Beirut port explosion, Shady Rizk played a video he had taken on his phone again and again. Filmed from the balcony of his office directly opposite the port, it shows flames and smoke rising from what some officials knew were burning explosives. Suddenly there...

Iran has let the UN nuclear watchdog inspect one of the two sites it agreed last week to grant access to after a protracted standoff, while Tehran's stockpile of enriched uranium has risen further, quarterly reports by the agency said Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency inspected...

Japanese officials and Tokyo 2020 organisers began talks Friday on the mammoth task of how to hold the postponed Olympics safely while the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage. The Games were postponed earlier this year in a historic decision as the scale of the coronavirus crisis became...

Sudan’s power-sharing government and a major rebel group active in southern borderlands have agreed to hold new peace talks hosted by South Sudan, both sides said on Friday, days after Khartoum signed a peace deal with other groups. The government agreed the move with the Sudan People’s...