French prosecutors on Tuesday demanded that ex-prime minister Francois Fillon serve two years in jail, with another three suspended, for embezzlement over his wife’s suspected fake job as his parliamentary assistant.  The allegations that Fillon, a fiscal conservative, paid his wife...

An Iraqi security source said on Wednesday that unidentified gunmen assassinated two Iraqi anti-government activists in Maysan province, southern Iraq. The security source identified the names of activists as Abdel-Aaddous Qasim and Karrar Adil, who were killed in Amarah city. The...

Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry has directed oil producer Saudi Aramco  to raise its output capacity to 13 million from 12 million barrels per day , CEO Amin Nasser said in a statement on Wednesday. “The company is exerting its maximum efforts to implement this directive as soon as...

The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak has risen to 3,161, the country's National Health Commission said Wednesday. The commission said 22 people have died in the past 24 hours while 24 new cases were registered. There are currently 80,778 registered cases in China...