Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda, the biggest party in the parliament, decided Wednesday to withdraw confidence from the government, a senior official in Ennahda told Reuters. Ennahda’s move will deepen the political crisis engulfing Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfkah, whom Ennahda...

A Massachusetts-based biotech company has been testing a possible vaccine against the novel coronavirus which is showing early signs of success.   Moderna Therapeutics announced an estimated start date for phase 3 trials, its final phase of testing.  The trial involved 45...

The Libyan army announced Wednesday that a total of 225 bodies have been unearthed from mass graves in the south of the capital Tripoli and in the city of Tarhuna and its surrounding areas in 40 days. The corpses were found in areas liberated from eastern Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar's...

Fatma Youssef stuffs rice, chicken or meat and vegetables into boxes spread on her dining table -- tens of them in the last few weeks. On some, she scribbles "Be well" in Arabic; on others, she writes "Together, we will get through this." Youssef doesn’t know who will eat her food. Still,...