Hong Kong began enforcing a mandatory two-week quarantine Saturday for anyone arriving from mainland China, a dramatic escalation of its bid to stop the deadly new coronavirus from spreading. The new measures, which came into effect overnight, will see the vast majority of cases expected to...

Iran repelled a cyberattack on Saturday that disrupted the country's internet services for an hour, a telecommunications ministry official said. "At 11:44 (0814 GMT) a distributed denial-of-service attack disrupted the internet services of some mobile and fixed operators for an hour,"...

Turkey will use its right of self-defense in the strongest manner if Turkey faces a new attack in Syria, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday. “In the event of a new attack, proper response will be given in the strongest manner based on the right of self-defense,” the ministry...

With polls predicting a shakeup in government, more than 3.3 million Irish voters are going to the polls Saturday to elect 160 members of the national assembly. Voting began at 7 a.m. (0700GMT), with the latest polls showing Irish nationalists Sinn Fein leading with 25%, but even in a...