Wrapped in plastic and white sheets, the ashen corpse of Mohammed Al-Shuhna, a Syrian mercenary allegedly killed in Azerbaijan, is shuttled back to north Syria just two weeks after he had first left. In the grainy mobile phone footage sent to The Independent  by Mohamed’s friends, a...

 There are as many as 45,000 new COVID infections in England each day, the largest study on prevalence of the coronavirus in the population said Friday, adding that a resurgence in the north of the country could be replicated elsewhere in weeks. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is battling...

As the number of novel coronavirus cases in India nears 7 million, the country's Central Bank projected that the economy would contract by 9.5% this fiscal year. After a meeting of India's monetary policy committee on Friday morning, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI),...

The Israeli army said Friday it was holding the body of a Palestinian shot dead in a West Bank clash earlier this week, ending days of uncertainty over his fate. The announcement follows a policy change last month in which Israel said it would not return the bodies of any Palestinian killed...