President Vladimir Putin said that Russian authorities had the coronavirus crisis under full control and that everything would work out with God's help, even as the country Sunday registered a record daily rise in cases of the new virus. Russia on Sunday reported 6,060 new cases in the...

The emirate of Abu Dhabi said Sunday it had sold $7 billion of bonds in the third major sale this month by Gulf sovereigns seeking to counter slumping oil prices. OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia last week raised $7 billion in a bond sale, while gas-rich Qatar sold bonds worth $10 billion two...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus Monday, Tehran said over the weekend, in what would be their first official meeting in a year. Zarif plans to travel to Damascus for a one-day visit to discuss bilateral relations, regional...

Polls opened in Mali Sunday for the final round of legislative elections aimed at reviving public faith in the country's embattled institutions despite a bloody jihadist conflict and the coronavirus pandemic.  Voters in Mali, one of the world's most impoverished nations with a...