A slew of countries closed their borders to Britain on Monday over fears of a highly infectious new coronavirus strain, heightening global panic, causing travel chaos and raising the prospect of UK food shortages days before the Brexit cliff edge. India, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Russia,...

The Palestinian-Syrian director Mohammed Khamis started his propaganda campaign for his long narrative  film "Exit Visa", a work that was carried out in difficult circumstances, not only because it was filmed in Palestine, but also under the spread of the Covid-19. The film,...

A six-year-old Syrian girl, who lost her left leg three years ago in an airstrike by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Idlib, hopes to get a prosthetic leg and be able to walk again. Esra Salih and her family left their home in the village of Harbil in the north of Aleppo province in 2015 and...

Oman will start reforming its expensive system of subsidies in January by shifting the focus of its electricity and water spending to its poorest citizens, the government said on Sunday. The plan, along with labour laws, privatisations and new taxation, is aimed at reducing a yawning fiscal...