The official Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics Games Twitter account offers no inkling that the novel coronavirus pandemic has threatened the Games - and the account's cheery tone is prompting sarcastic online replies. Japanese officials insist the Olympics will go on as planned, and...

At the heart of Syria's latest humanitarian crisis, locals call Idlib "the forgotten city", still paying the price for one day in the 1970s when the former president was pelted with tomatoes. The city and its surroundings have suffered furious bombardments since December at the hands of...

Greece on Friday prepared to swear in the first woman president in its history as the country grapples with over a hundred coronavirus cases. Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou, a 63-year-old senior judge, will become the new Greek head of state for a five-year term. She will take her oath in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A huge blaze ripped through a school building established by Jewish and Arab Israelis in the Greek island of Lesbos for Syrian children. According to reports by Israeli newspapers, the school administration described the fire as suspicious. The fire coincided with the...