A top Palestinian business executive said on Monday that new Gulf Arab ties with Israel, condemned by Palestinian leaders, could also be an opportunity to apply fresh pressure to halt Jewish settlement in occupied land. Bashar Masri, a Palestinian-American who runs two of the...

 A drastic rise in COVID-19 infections has pushed Lebanon’s hospitals to the edge, and experts warn they will soon be unable to cope as the country buckles under a succession of devastating crises. Lebanon’s healthcare system was already struggling before several hospitals were badly...

The number of total coronavirus cases around the world surpassed 35 million on Monday, less than a week after deaths from COVID-19 passed one million, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The US leads the world with over 7.4 million cases and almost 210,000 deaths, while India had...

Wall Street futures climbed in pre-market trading Monday, with investors seemingly unperturbed by US President Donald Trump's hospitalization after announcing he'd tested positive for coronavirus last week. About an hour before trading was to begin, the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial...