Dubai, the United Arab Emirates business hub, has extended by one week a 24-hour-a-day curfew imposed as part of a sterilisation drive to control the spread of the coronavirus, the government said in a Twitter post on Friday. The UAE has imposed a nationwide nightly curfew since March...

The Kurdish-led administration that runs much of northeastern Syria said it had recorded its first death from the new coronavirus, according to a statement on Friday in which it cited the World Health Organisation. The administration said in the statement that a 53-year-old man had died at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed forces on Friday have thwarted an attack by Kurdish PYD militia east of the border Ras al-Ayn region, military source told Zaman al-Wasl.  Two PYD groups tried infiltrate into the village of Bab al-Faraj east of Ras al-Ayn town. According to...

 Inmates at 30 Algerian prisons are being mobilised to make personal protective equipment to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, official news agency APS reported. Authorities will "open sewing workshops for the production of 200,000 masks by prisoners in 30 penitentiaries... to...