The powerful Shi’ite group Hezbollah is against allowing the International Monetary Fund to manage Lebanon’s financial crisis but does not oppose Lebanon seeking the IMF’s advice, the group’s deputy leader said on Tuesday. Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and designated as a...

Fears mounted Saturday over the rise of new cases and fatalities outside China from the new coronavirus outbreak, as the World Health Organization warned of a shrinking window to stem the spread of the deadly disease.  The warning came as the first European died from the new COVID-19...

German sportswear maker Adidas said Wednesday store closures in China had brought plummeting sales since the beginning of the novel coronavirus outbreak in late January. "Our business activity in Greater China has been around 85 percent below the prior year level since Chinese New Year on...

Sanaullah Dar was due to undergo surgery to remove a tumour in his bladder. Four months later, he was dead, with doctors blaming a lockdown imposed by New Delhi on the restive part of Kashmir it controls. In August, India's Hindu-nationalist government stripped the Himalayan region of its...