The dollar extended its dramatic fall Friday, putting it on course for its biggest monthly drop in a decade as investors fretted that a rebound in the US economy would be derailed by the struggle to stem the coronavirus epidemic. Weakness in the US currency propelled the euro higher, with...

Syria’s health ministry on Friday has announced 19 new confirmed coronavirus cases, topping the total of infections to 757.   At least 43 people have died of COVID-19 in the war-torn country but experts doubt that the number is accurate, saying Syria is seen at high risk from the...

India's coronavirus death toll passed 35,000 on Friday, overtaking that of Italy, as floods affecting millions and killing almost 350 hampered the battle against the pandemic. With 779 new deaths in 24 hours, the health ministry put total fatalities at 35,747, giving India the world's...

A second wave of coronavirus infections sweeping the Israeli-occupied West Bank is fuelling fears of a surge in overcrowded Palestinian refugee camps where social distancing is next to impossible. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, the Palestinian Authority quickly imposed a...