Several hundred small business owners protested in Kiev on Wednesday, demanding the authorities ease anti-virus measures to save them from bankruptcy. Wearing surgical masks, demonstrators briefly blocked traffic outside a government building in the city centre in defiance of rules against...

Yemeni authorities reported multiple coronavirus infections for the first time Wednesday, after the United Nations said it feared the disease could be spreading undetected in a country where millions face famine. The five new COVID-19 cases were detected in Aden, a southern port which is...

Lebanon's under-fire central bank chief Wednesday blamed a lack of government reforms for a spiralling economic crisis that has seen angry protesters spill back into the streets despite a coronavirus lockdown. Central bank governor Riad Salameh was speaking after two nights of street...

At least 36 people were killed Wednesday when one of South Korea's worst fires in years broke out at a construction site near the capital, officials said. They said the death toll could rise because more people were believed to be trapped inside the warehouse that was under construction in...