Lebanon is in “the final hours before” formally announcing it cannot pay its debts, senior MP Alain Aoun said on Saturday, as the president, prime minister and parliament speaker met ahead of an official declaration later in the day. Sources told Reuters on Friday Lebanon was set to...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered the Turkish coastguard to prevent migrants from crossing the Aegean sea because of the risks, state media reported. "On the orders of the president ... permission will not be given for migrants to cross the Aegean Sea because it is dangerous," the...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an $8.3 billion emergency funding bill Friday to fight the coronavirus outbreak, as the number of infections with the virus globally topped 100,000.  White House Deputy Press Secretary Judd Deere announced that Trump signed the Coronavirus...

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a phone call Friday that agreements reached between Russia and Turkey at recent talks would stabilise the situation in Syria's Idlib province, the Kremlin said. "Bashar al-Assad rated the outcome of the talks between...