After three days of decline, Italy reported a rise in both coronavirus infections and deaths on Tuesday. According to latest Health Ministry data, daily fatalities stood at 634, up from 528 on Monday, and raised the nationwide death toll to 61,240 – the highest in Europe after the UK....

Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla said Tuesday he understands concerns around the speed at which pharmaceutical companies have produced Covid-19 vaccines, but insisted that no corners had been cut. As Britain on Tuesday became the first Western country to start a mass coronavirus vaccine...

 Turkey on Tuesday condemned the interception of one of its ships by eastern-based Libyan forces in the Mediterranean, saying it must be allowed to resume its journey to western Libya and warning of possible reprisal. Khalifa Haftar’s eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) said on...

Israeli forces have demolished a number of Palestinian homes and detained 16 people in the occupied West Bank, an official said on Tuesday. "The [Israeli] occupation army demolished five homes in the town of Ras Al-Auja in the Jordan Valley," mayor Salah Freijat told Anadolu Agency. He...