Andreyah Garland, a 44-year-old single mother of three daughters, bought a shotgun in May for protection in the quaint middle-class town of Fishkill, New York. She joined a new and fast-growing local gun club to learn how to shoot. She has since applied for a pistol permit and constantly...

Lebanon's protest movement has made some important gains since it burst out onto the streets a year ago, even if its revolutionary fever has died down. Demonstrations that erupted last October 17 over a planned tax on calls made via messaging apps quickly evolved into an unprecedented...

Ongoing illness after infection with COVID-19, sometimes called "long COVID", may not be one syndrome but possibly up to four causing a rollercoaster of symptoms affecting all parts of the body and mind, doctors said Thursday. In an initial report about long-term COVID-19, Britain's...

Libya’s internationally recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) has detained Abdalrahman al-Milad, a coastguard commander sanctioned by the United Nations for alleged human trafficking and migrant smuggling, its interior ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry said it had detained...