The Trump administration will not invoke federal authority over the National Guard for now, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien said on Sunday as protests flared in multiple U.S. cities following the death of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis in police custody last week. "We're not...

Spain's prime minister said Sunday the country needed 15 more days of lockdown until June 21 "to finish with the pandemic once and for all", and he would ask parliament to approve a final two-week extension to the stay home rule. "We have almost set out what we set out to do," Pedro Sanchez...

Mask-clad worshippers flocked to Saudi mosques that reopened nationwide Sunday, except in the holy city of Mecca, more than two months after congregational prayers were halted under a coronavirus-triggered lockdown. Complying with stringent social distancing rules, worshippers kept a...

Emirates Airline said Sunday it will cut "a few" jobs in the face of the downturn over the coronavirus crisis, but did not specify the extent of the layoffs. "We reviewed all possible scenarios in order to sustain our business operations, but we have come to the conclusion that we...

Venezuela will increase fuel prices in June, the president said, putting a limit on state subsidies that for decades had allowed citizens to fill their gas tanks virtually for free. Although the country has huge oil reserves, production has collapsed and Venezuelans are facing dire...

Paris Saint-Germain have signed Argentina international Mauro Icardi from Inter Milan on a four-year deal after taking up the option to buy the on-loan forward, the two clubs announced on Sunday. Icardi joined PSG this season and impressed with 20 goals in 31 games, before the Ligue 1...

British foreign minister Dominic Raab defended Sunday the government's "careful" loosening of the coronavirus lockdown, saying it was the "right step to be taking at this moment in time". Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under fire from some scientists for easing a lockdown put in...

Egypt's military said it had killed 19 militants in targeted ground and air operations as part of its battle to quell a long-running Islamist insurgency in north Sinai. Five soldiers were killed or wounded in the operations last week, according to the online video statement Saturday, which...

Sudanese authorities have begun to recover billions of dollars of real estate illegally amassed by deposed dictator Omar al-Bashir's regime, but other assets will be difficult to seize, experts say. "Initial estimates indicate that the real estate and properties owned by the former...

Iraq has only 190,000 tons of rice available in its coffers for its food rationing program, the trade ministry said in a statement late Saturday. The country needs around 1-1.25 million tons of rice a year to support the program. In March, the trade ministry pleaded for money from the...

Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said any negotiations with the United States would be "futile" as he delivered his first major speech to the conservative-dominated chamber Sunday. Ghalibaf, a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards' air force, was elected speaker...

Chinese state media took aim at the US government over the weekend as many American cities were gripped by raging protests and clashes, comparing the unrest with the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Beijing has long been infuriated by criticism from Western capitals, especially...

Iran's interior minister has suggested that up to 225 people were killed in November protests sparked by a petrol price hike, ISNA news agency reported on Sunday. Officials in Iran have yet to issue an overall death toll for the unrest, while London-based human rights group Amnesty...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would postpone a Group of Seven summit he had hoped to hold next month until September or later and expand the list of invitees to include Australia, Russia, South Korea and India. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One during his return to...

Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque reopened to worshippers on Sunday after a two-and-a-half month coronavirus closure, but Muslim authorities imposed some precautions as health officials warn of an uptick in local infections. The resumption of prayers at Islam's third-holiest site caps a sombre...

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait confirmed new fatalities due to the novel coronavirus on Saturday, while Qatar and Bahrain reported fresh infections.  In a statement, the Saudi Health Ministry said 22 people had died from COVID-19, taking the nationwide death toll to 480.  A...

Italy on Saturday reported 111 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 33,340, as regions prepare to reopen their borders starting June 3. The slowing trend in the number of deaths registered over the past week indicates that the peak of the crisis has...

At least two employees of a local Afghan TV channel were killed and four more injured by a bomb blast in the country's capital Kabul on Saturday. The country's Interior Ministry said in a statement that the incident took place in the city's downtown Qulola Pushta neighborhood in the...

Turkish authorities on Saturday sent official orders on recent decisions to ease restrictions related to the novel coronavirus as the country made advances in its fight against the pandemic. The Interior Ministry ordered local officials to allow restaurants, cafes, patisseries, coffee...

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser lashed out at President Donald for his tweets criticizing her and Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department after protests near the White House on Friday night. Trump warned in a tweet Saturday that the Secret Service was ready to unleash “the most...