The Paris Saint-Germain of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe go after a first-ever Champions League title behind closed doors in Lisbon Sunday, but will have their work cut out against a Bayern Munich side led by the prolific Robert Lewandowski. It is a mouthwatering showdown between two of Europe's...

South Korea ramped up coronavirus restrictions on Sunday to try to contain a growing outbreak, as many countries around the world battled worrying surges in infections. The pandemic has killed more than 800,000 people globally, and continues to unleash destruction with areas such as Western...

Israeli authorities Sunday erased a "Peeping Toms" mural that had long been a fixture at a Tel Aviv beach, responding to public outrage over the suspected gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in the southern resort of Eilat. Painted 18 years ago and often criticized as sexist, the mural was...

 A Jordanian judge Sunday ordered the release of the teachers union's 13 elected council members who were arrested a month ago for alleged graft, a judicial source said. Authorities closed the union and arrested its leaders July 25 after it had led a campaign for higher pay in the...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen intercepted and destroyed early Sunday an explosive-laden drone over Yemeni airspace that was launched by Iran-aligned Houthis towards the kingdom, state news agency (SPA) reported quoting Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki.

Iran has retrieved some data, including a portion of cockpit conversations, from the Ukrainian jetliner accidentally downed by the Revolutionary Guard forces in January, killing all 176 people on board, an Iranian official said Sunday. That’s according to a report on the website of Iran’s...

The 10 firefighters who received the call a bit before 6 p.m. - alerting them of a big fire at the nearby port of Beirut - could not know what awaited them. The brigade of nine men and one woman could not know about the stockpile of ammonium nitrate warehoused since 2013 along a busy...

Pakistan has issued sweeping orders enforcing financial sanctions against Afghanistan’s Taliban, just as the militant group is in the midst of a US-led peace process in the neighboring country. Pakistan's foreign ministry in a statement late Saturday said the sanctions are not new but...

Leaders from West African states have paid a visit to Mali following a military coup in the country. A delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), headed by Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, former president of Nigeria, was received at the airport by junta leaders of the...

Israel's landmark deal with the UAE to normalise ties could see businesses from the Jewish state operating on arch-rival Iran's doorstep, but are unlikely to disturb Emirati economic ties to Iran. It could also pave the way for direct economic engagement between Israeli and UAE-based...

Days ahead of a final deadline, activation of a long-planned Algeria-EU trade deal risks unravelling as political and business leaders in the North African country warn it will undermine economic sovereignty. The deal is meant to come into effect on September 1, a decade and a half after...

The new coronavirus is circulating four times more among people under 40 in France than among over 65-year-olds, France's health minister said, though he warned that contamination was on the rise among the elderly and more vulnerable too. "We're in a risky situation," Olivier Veran said in...

Italy's health ministry on Saturday reported 1,071 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, exceeding 1,000 cases in a day for the first time since May when the government eased rigid lockdown measures. 

Credit ratings agency S&P Friday downgraded more Lebanese government debt issues after missed payments, citing the country's worsening economic crisis following the devastating explosion in Beirut earlier this month. S&P Global Ratings maintained the "selective default" or "SD"...

A cargo plane hired by the UN food agency crashed in South Sudan’s capital on Saturday morning, killing seven people and injuring one more, the country’s transport minister said. Speaking to Anadolu Agency over the phone, Madut Yel Biar said five passengers and three crew were on board...

Libya’s High Council of State on Saturday lauded Turkey and Qatar’s role in ending warlord Khalifa Haftar’s offensive on Tripoli and in western parts of the country. In a statement after Friday’s cease-fire call by the Government of National Accord (GNA) and the pro-Haftar parliament,...

Turkey expects its energy imports to fall significantly following a major Black Sea natural gas find and more discoveries could be made in another area now being evaluated, Energy Minister Fatih Donmez said Saturday. President Tayyip Erdogan announced the discovery of a 320 billion...

The number of deaths from the new coronavirus has surpassed 800,000 around the world, according to an AFP tally based on official sources at around 1100 GMT Saturday. In total, 800,004 fatalities have been recorded globally, out of 23,003,079 declared infections. Latin America...

Neymar is finally getting his big chance to shine. He is getting the opportunity to prove he doesn’t need Lionel Messi to help him win football’s biggest club tournament. He is getting the chance to demonstrate that Paris Saint-Germain were right to pick him to lead their quest...

Iraq Saturday registered nearly 4,000 cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases recorded by the country to over 200,000. According to the Iraqi health ministry, 201,050 Iraqis have contracted the virus, including 6,353 who have died, while 143,393 are declared...