The International Monetary Fund's executive board approved Egypt's request for $2.77 billion in emergency financing Monday to help the Egyptian government meet urgent budget needs related to the new coronavirus pandemic, the Fund said. The IMF said it remained closely engaged with the...

Hundreds of people protested outside the Iranian consulate in western Afghanistan Monday over the deaths of several migrants who were allegedly forced into a river by Iranian border guards and drowned. Afghan officials claim the migrants died while they were illegally crossing into...

 Afghan security forces arrested three senior South Asia Daesh members including the group's regional leader, the government said Monday. The militant group's head of South Asia, Abu Omar Khorasani, was arrested in Kabul alongside the group's spy chief and public relations officer, the...

The British government performed an about-face on masks Monday, telling people to cover their mouth and nose in shops, buses and subway trains. The change came as part of a plan to gradually lift a nationwide lockdown imposed seven weeks ago to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. In a...