Oil slipped on Friday and were on track for a 3% weekly decline due to mounting worries about resurgent coronavirus infections crushing fuel demand and as Libyan crude exports resume. Brent crude LCOc1 was down 20 cents at $41.73 a barrel by 12:02 p.m. EDT (1602 GMT), while U.S. West Texas...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas appealed Friday to the United Nations for an international conference on the Middle East in 2021, hoping for a new start after US elections and the milestone of Gulf Arabs' recognition of Israel. In an address to the General Assembly, Abbas asked...

India registered 86,052 fresh cases of coronavirus and 1,141 virus-related fatalities in the last 24 hours, official data revealed on Friday. The total caseload now crossed 5.8 million and death toll climbed to 92,290, the Health Ministry data showed early morning. India has the...

The World Health Organization gave China its support and understanding to start administering experimental coronavirus vaccines to people while clinical trials were still underway, a Chinese health official said Friday. China launched its emergency program in July, having communicated with...