Palestinian grape farmers are boasting a bumper crop this year, helped in part by coronavirus lockdowns that gave many of them more time to till their vines in the occupied West Bank. But the pandemic's economic ravages have also slashed sales of the fruit, depressing the hilly breadbasket...

India on Thursday recorded its biggest one-day COVID-19 case rise yet, with nearly 96,000 fresh cases in the last 24 hours bringing the total number to date to 4.4 million. Indian Health Ministry figures Thursday morning showed that 95,735 new cases and 1,172 deaths were recorded in the...

Oil prices slid on Thursday after data showed U.S. crude stockpiles unexpectedly rose last week, stoking concern about a sluggish recovery in fuel demand as coronavirus cases continue to surge in many countries. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 futures fell 24 cents, or 0.63%,...

The cat-and-mouse campaigning by Donald Trump and Joe Biden has led the president and his Democratic challenger to the same locations, sometimes on the same day, while displaying radically different styles as they court American voters. As the candidates criss-cross the battleground states...