(Zaman Al Wasl)- A 32-year-old Syrian psychiatrist died from COVID-19 on Friday in Italy, relatives said. Dr. Eyad al-Deqer was tested positive for coronavirus shortly two weeks ago before his death on Friday in the Italian city of Piacenza, south of Milan city. Italy’s death...

Armoured vehicles in the streets, hundreds arrested, smartphone surveillance -- sweeping measures to fight the coronavirus have raised concerns in the Middle East over the erosion of already threatened human rights. As the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, more than three billion people...

China reported 45 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for Saturday, down from 54 on the previous day, with all but one involving travelers from overseas, the country’s health authority said on Sunday. In the last seven days, China has reported 313 imported cases of coronavirus but only...

North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean off its east coast on Sunday, the latest in an unprecedented flurry of launches that South Korea decried as “inappropriate” amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Two “short-range projectiles”...