The Palestinian Authority on Sunday imposed a night-time and weekend curfew on the occupied West Bank for the coming 14 days to try and rein in rising coronavirus numbers. "Travel will be prohibited daily from 8:00 pm (1700 GMT) to 6:00 am in all governorates," as well as from Thursday...

 Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers turned up over the weekend to vote in an unofficial two-day primary election held by the city’s pro-democracy camp as it gears up to field candidates for an upcoming legislative poll. The exercise is being held two weeks after Beijing imposed a...

Russia's forest service said there were nearly 300 wildfires blazing across the vast country's northern wilderness on Saturday, as it attempted to contain them with methods including explosives and cloud seeding. Freakishly warm weather across large swathes of Siberia since January,...

Syria’s Intelligence arrested three senior army officers following an espionage scandal that hit Bashar al-Assad’s special office and his inner circle, source told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. Bri. Gen Mohamed Tawfiq al-Mohamed, Bri. Gen Shawkat Hassan Mayhoub and Colonel Ibrahim Salem...