Young Palestinian soccer players, all amputees and many on crutches, were back on the field in Gaza Tuesday for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were eased in the territory. Their coach said some of the 26 athletes lost limbs to Israeli gunfire in Gaza, where Hamas and Israel...

Brazil may be struggling in its battle against the coronavirus, but it is on the cutting edge of vaccine development with large-scale trials and the production of millions of doses on the horizon. Unlike Europe and China, COVID-19 continues to spread rapidly across the Latin American nation...

Germany and Belgium have asked the UN Security Council to vote to extend authorization for cross-border humanitarian aid in Syria despite a likely Russian veto, diplomatic sources said Tuesday. The German-Belgian draft resolution would extend for a year an authorization for aid to move into...

Two people died and another three were injured Tuesday when a pre-dawn explosion rocked a factory south of Tehran, Iran's official IRNA agency reported, blaming human error. The blast in "a completely industrial zone" of Baqershahr, 23 kilometres (14 miles) from the capital, was caused by...