Left with no income because of the coronavirus lockdown, Dmitry Volodin, the co-owner of several bars in Moscow, says he’s getting inadequate government support, and he has no idea how he can keep paying his staff and his rent. President Vladimir Putin last week gave many Russians the...

Kurdish authorities performed tests for the new coronavirus on those arriving at Qamishli's domestic airport from Damascus. Medics and security teams set up a mobile testing facility at a roundabout outside of the airport and examined the returning passengers. Mohammed...

An Algerian court Monday sentenced another leading figure in the country's anti-regime protest movement to one year in prison, part of a crackdown on activists, a support group said. Abdelouahab Fersaoui, who heads the civic group Youth Action Rally (RAJ), was arrested in October during a...

An Algerian court Sunday sentenced to eight months in jail a journalist who had provided images of months-long anti-government protests to foreign media, a prisoners' support group and a non-government organization said. Sofiane Merakchi, a correspondent for Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen,...