The cabinet of the United Arab Emirates approved a smaller federal budget for 2021 in a sign that the country is curbing expenditure amid the coronavirus crisis and lower oil prices. The budget for next year was set at 58 billion dirhams ($15.8 billion), state news agency WAM reported...

The one-month lockdown for England announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson this weekend could be extended as Britain struggles to contain a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior cabinet member said on Sunday. Johnson announced on Saturday that the lockdown across England would...

Algerian voters began to cast ballot Sunday in a referendum on constitutional amendments. The vote is held amid restrictions as part of measures to stem the spread of coronavirus and absence of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, who was hospitalized in Germany. Polls opened at 8 a.m. local...

A 70-year-old man was pulled from the rubble of a flattened building in western Turkey early Sunday after being buried under the debris for 33 hours following a powerful earthquake which struck the country's Aegean coast and Greek islands. The death toll from Friday afternoon's quake rose...