Cristiano Ronaldo shot back at Italy's sports minister on Friday by denying that he broke the coronavirus protocol adopted for the country's football after returning from international duty while positive for the disease. On Thursday Minister of Sport Vincenzo Spadafora said that Portugal...

The U.S. national security adviser said on Friday that China was perpetrating “something close to” a genocide with its treatment of Muslims in its Xinjiang region. “If not a genocide, something close to it going on in Xinjiang,” Robert O’Brien told an online event hosted by the...

A batch of drugs, at least the one used in the treatment of COVID-19, was unable to prevent deaths in patients infected with the novel coronavirus, a World Health Organization (WHO) study showed Friday.  In six months, the world’s largest randomized control trial on COVID-19...

The European Union on Friday decided to impose sanctions on seven newly appointed ministers in Syria over violent repression against the civilian population. The sanctions include a travel ban and an asset freeze against the ministers. With seven more ministers, the number of people who...