Iran said Sunday it will allow "low-risk" economic activities to resume from April 11 as its daily coronavirus infection rates slowed for a fifth straight day. "Restarting these activities does not mean we have abandoned the principle of staying at home," President Hassan Rouhani said at a...

A planned $1 billion cut in U.S. aid to Afghanistan would come from funds for Afghan security forces, according to three U.S. sources, a step experts said would undercut both Kabul's ability to fight the Taliban and its leverage to negotiate a peace deal with them. Secretary of State Mike...

The United Arab Emirates' cabinet approved strengthening the country's "strategic stockpile" Sunday in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the vice president and prime minister tweeted after a cabinet meeting, without specifying what goods. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who is...

While the coronavirus epidemic rages in France and around the world, President Emmanuel Macron’s poll ratings have jumped to a two-year high. Analysts say that – while his leadership style played badly during the Yellow Vest protests and pensions strikes – it has been an asset during the...