The United Nations independent expert on poverty is warning that the worst impacts from the coronavirus pandemic on poverty are yet to come, and that measures taken by governments to protect people so far have been insufficient. "The social safety nets put into place are full of holes,"...

Firefighters were battling unprecedented wildfires up and down the US West Coast on Friday that killed 15 people and forced more than half a million others to flee their homes, with officials warning of more deaths to come in the days ahead. The true scale of destruction was impossible to...

Thousands of supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr gathered at a mosque in east Baghdad Friday for the first weekly prayers since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Iraq's mosques have been closed to gatherings for close to six months, but notoriously outspoken Sadr said Wednesday that...

Bekaa (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee child has been killed by lightning in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley on Thursday evening, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Anwar Alaiwi, 6-year-old, was struck by lightning while he was playing with two more children inside the refugee camp in Bar Elias...