US President-elect Joe Biden will name his first cabinet picks on Tuesday, his chief of staff said, even as Donald Trump clung to unsubstantiated claims of fraud despite growing dissent from within his own party. Biden has pushed ahead with preparations to assume the presidency on...

No country has been spared the coronavirus epidemic, nor the scourge of domestic violence, which has surged during lockdowns as the day marking such violence approaches on Wednesday. From a spike in rapes in Nigeria and South Africa, increased numbers of women missing in Peru, higher...

The Houthi rebel group in Yemen announced early Monday it targeted a facility of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Aramco in Jeddah by a missile.  "The missile force managed to target the Aramco distribution station in Jeddah with a winged Quds 2 missile," the group's military...

The Syrian regime has tortured 98 people in the last two years violating the 2018 Daraa agreement, according to local sources. The regime tortured many people who resided in Daraa and applied for amnesty based on the agreement, local sources told Anadolu Agency. Those tortured included...