Jordan on Sunday started to deploy drones to fight the coronavirus pandemic, joining a host of Middle East countries using the technology to enforce curfews, deliver public health announcements and even monitor people's temperatures. Jordan has declared five deaths and 323 cases of COVID-19...

No one should have known Bella Lamilla’s name.  But within hours of her diagnosis as Ecuador’s first coronavirus case, it was circulating on social media along with photos showing the retired schoolteacher unconscious and intubated in a hospital bed. Her large, close-knit family...

 Hussam Qaterji, the corrupt parliament member is one of Bashar al-Assad's sincere businessmen who was subjected to European sanctions in January 2019, for his role in providing oil derivatives and wheat for the Islamic State (ISIS) and the Syrian regime....

Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki, who blazed a trail in classical music with innovative religious and symphonic works, died aged 86 Sunday in his home city of Krakow. His family told local media he’d undergone a long illness. Venerated as one of the 20th century’s most...