In reaching the third round, Ons Jabeur had already progressed as far as she ever has at Wimbledon, and she stretched the run further with a quite brilliant victory over former champion Garbine Muguruza on Centre Court. The Tunisian won through, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, in what was a classic match on the...

Children in Lebanon are particularly vulnerable as the country experiences one of the world’s worst economic crises in over 150 years, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).  Lebanon's currency has lost over 90 percent of its value since October 2019, leaving...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Thursday that extrajudicial killing claimed the lives of 723 civilians in the first half of 2021, noting that 95 civilians were documented killed in June 2021, including 22 children, eight women and 11 individuals due to torture.   The...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities reported a record-breaking 679 new coronavirus deaths on Friday, a fourth day in a row with the highest daily death toll in the pandemic. No plans for a lockdown are being discussed, however, the Kremlin insisted. The previous record, of 672 deaths,...