Turkish police used tear gas to disperse a few dozen women who were still in central Istanbul after trying to march on Sunday evening to celebrate International Women’s Day. Reuters reporters saw the crowd, which was originally few hundred women, at the edge of Taksim Square holding...

Saudi authorities Sunday cordoned off the eastern region of Qatif, a centre of the kingdom's Shiite minority, in a bid to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus as the total number of cases rose to 11. The lockdown on Qatif, home to around 500,000 people, is the first action of its kind...

President Donald Trump defended the "perfectly coordinated" US response to the coronavirus epidemic Sunday amid heavy criticism over health cuts and strategic blunders that have failed to stem its rapid spread. The virus has reached 30 US states, killing at least 19 people, while the...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday he would meet European Union officials Monday to discuss migration, and repeated his call for more help in coping with the millions of refugees it hosts from neighboring war-torn Syria. Facing a further influx of Syrians fleeing the fighting,...