Swiss exports of gold to the United States all but halted in August while shipments to China and India rose, customs data showed on Thursday, suggesting a big transfer of bullion to New York that followed the cororonavirus outbreak has run its course. The pandemic upended the global gold...

  Turkish forces killed a jihadist woman who tried to blew herself up at a Turkish observation point, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday. The Turkish forces stationed in “Tala’e Al-Ba’ath Camp” in Al-Mastumah area, on the road between Idlib city...

 Two Palestinian travel bloggers are promoting local Palestinian tourism in the West Bank as an act of defiance against Israeli occupation. The West Bank is scattered with sites holy to Christians, Muslims and Jews, and its mountainous landscape offers breathtaking views from the hills...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Thursday that authorities will have to impose tougher measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 and "protect’’ the Christmas holidays as the government prepared to introduce stricter measures in northeast England. Johnson’s comments came...