French senators have approved a bill giving the government special powers to fight the worsening coronavirus outbreak as the death toll rose to 372 on Thursday. The text, which will be examined by the National Assembly on Friday, allows the government to restrict people’s freedom of...

The radical Hurras al Din group is responsible for kidnapping and forcibly disappearing six activists working for relief organisations in northern Idlib province, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Thursday. Since the beginning of 2020, SNHR has documented at...

Lebanese-American Amer Fakhoury, who was detained in Lebanon in September, has been released and is on his way back to the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday. Fakhoury, a 57-year-old New Hampshire resident, was accused of overseeing the torture of Lebanese at a...

Moroccan police have arrested at least a dozen people for spreading rumours about the coronavirus, including a woman who used her YouTube channel to say the disease did not exist, authorities said on Thursday. “Fake news is the first cause of panic among citizens,” said Prime Minister...