Syrian businessman Rami Makhlouf revealed Sunday he had set up a web of offshore front companies to help President Bashar al Assad evade Western sanctions, in a social media post blasting the government for investigating his business empire. One of Syria's richest and most powerful...

With a practiced hand, a courier balances a tray of steaming cups and with the other grips his bicycle handlebars as he weaves between cars in the crowded Gaza Strip. Shaaban Hamuda's modest coffee on wheels business is giving the coastal Palestinian territory its first taste of a delivery...

Australia on Monday posted its highest number of new coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, even as officials expressed hope outbreaks in locked-down Melbourne may have peaked. A day after Australia reported its highest daily death toll, authorities confirmed at least 549 new COVID-19...

"Gone With the Wind" star Olivia de Havilland, a winner of two Academy Awards and among the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, died on Sunday at her home in Paris. She was 104. De Havilland died of natural causes at her home in the French capital, where she had lived for...