Palestine and Lebanon have been added to the International Red Cross (IRC) emergency watchlist for 2021. This year's list also includes Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Mali and Afghanistan, but Iraq and Libya, which featured in 2020, have been removed. The list identifies 20 countries at...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday urged world's rich nations to make stronger contributions to make coronavirus vaccine available to everyone on the planet. "It is not with vaccine nationalism that we are going to defeat the COVID, it is with international cooperation," he...

When Abdullah boarded an inflatable boat crammed with fellow migrants in February he thought he would finally reach Europe after braving the dangers of a Sahara crossing and Libya’s civil war. The 27-year-old from Niger knew the voyage ahead was risky. The Mediterranean waters between...

 Saudi Arabia kicked off a three-phase Covid-19 vaccination programme Thursday, with the health minister among those inoculated after the first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived in the kingdom. Along with Health Minister Tawfiq al-Rabiah, a woman in a wheelchair and...