The Dutch, Spanish and Monaco Formula One Grand Prix races were Thursday postponed due to the global spread of coronavirus, officials announced, with the start of the season now pushed back to June at the earliest. The triple postponements follow the cancellation of the season-opening...

Lawmakers in breakaway northern Cyprus voted Thursday to postpone a Turkish Cypriot leadership election scheduled for April 26 by six months because of the coronavirus. The election will now be held on October 11, and dovish incumbent Mustafa Akinci will remain in office in a caretaker...

The Taliban should commit to a ceasefire as a way of tackling the novel coronavirus, Afghanistan's defence minister said Thursday, while also vowing that security forces would respond to continued insurgent attacks. "Our proposal is that to prevent this plague, a ceasefire should come, so...

U.S. senators on Wednesday raised pressure on Saudi Arabia and Russia to stop the price war that is sinking global oil prices as they held talks with the kingdom’s U.S. envoy and separately urged President Donald Trump to impose an embargo on oil from the two countries. Oil prices...