Wrapped in plastic and white sheets, the ashen corpse of Mohammed Al-Shuhna, a Syrian mercenary allegedly killed in Azerbaijan, is shuttled back to north Syria just two weeks after he had first left. In the grainy mobile phone footage sent to The Independent  by Mohamed’s friends, a...

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump's chief rival in Congress, proposed a commission Friday to assess a president's capacity for carrying out his duties -- a move that highlights concerns about Trump's health weeks before the election. Despite the conspicuous timing of the...

Fouad Khamasi fills his taxi every day with about 40,000 Lebanese pounds’ worth of fuel. It could cost at least four times that much if subsidies come to an end. The Beirut cab driver, 53, can just about afford to buy fuel and feed his kids. He worries the price of subsidised foods and key...

 There are as many as 45,000 new COVID infections in England each day, the largest study on prevalence of the coronavirus in the population said Friday, adding that a resurgence in the north of the country could be replicated elsewhere in weeks. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is battling...