Nearly a million Madrid residents were bracing Sunday for a partial lockdown as Spanish authorities seek to put a brake on a second wave of Covid-19. The restrictions, which kick off Monday for two weeks, affect 850,000 people living mainly in densely-populated, low-income neighbourhoods in...

Egypt's antiquities ministry announced Sunday the discovery of 14 coffins in the Saqqara area that had lain buried for two and a half thousand years. The tombs were found two days ago during an archaeological dig, and follow 13 wooden sarcophagus discovered in the same burial spot last...

Russian warplanes on Sunday carried out airstrikes on residential areas in the south of northwestern Syria’s Idlib. The planes took off from the Hmeimim military air base in Latakia and specifically targeted residential areas. The sound of explosions was heard from Turkey's southern...

Iran Sunday called on the rest of the world to unite against the United States, after Washington unilaterally declared UN sanctions against the Islamic republic were back in force. "We expect the international community and all the countries in the world to stand against these reckless...