Online taxi booking apps, which recently have been widespread across Syria, helped launch a phenomenon of women-only taxi with services provided by women for women. The idea has recently reached the central city of Homs, despite the poverty that overcame its residents for years....

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil currently accounts for one-quarter of the entire world’s daily COVID-19 deaths, far more than any other single nation, and health experts are warning that the nation is on the verge of even greater calamity. The nation’s seven-day average of 2,400...

Lebanon's outgoing prime minister, Hassan Diab, said on Friday that experts had found "dangerous chemicals" at a warehouse at the Zahrani oil installations in the south. Diab said the country's atomic energy authority had identified the substances as "nuclear" after reviewing a report by...

A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels Friday outside the Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course as dredgers worked frantically to free a giant container ship that is stuck sideways in the waterway and disrupting global shipping. One salvage expert said freeing...