The emergencies chief of the World Health Organization says scientific disagreements over COVID-19 interventions - like masks and vaccines - shouldn’t be treated as "some kind of political football," but acknowledged that "it isn’t easy for everyone to be on message all the time."...

 Two Palestinian travel bloggers are promoting local Palestinian tourism in the West Bank as an act of defiance against Israeli occupation. The West Bank is scattered with sites holy to Christians, Muslims and Jews, and its mountainous landscape offers breathtaking views from the hills...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Thursday that authorities will have to impose tougher measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 and "protect’’ the Christmas holidays as the government prepared to introduce stricter measures in northeast England. Johnson’s comments came...

Lebanon's largest prison has more than 200 coronavirus cases, the head of the country's doctors' union warned Thursday, calling for speedy trials to ease overcrowding. "There are more than 200 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Roumieh prison," Sharaf Abu Sharaf told journalists in Beirut,...