Britain's health minister said on Friday that the novel coronavirus was accelerating across the country, with hospital admissions doubling every eight days, but refused to say whether or not another national lockdown would be imposed next month. The United Kingdom has reported the fifth...

Too many doctors and nurses are paying the ultimate price while battling Covid-19, the World Health Organization said Thursday as it launched a charter aiming to boost safety for health workers. The UN health agency said that the pandemic had exposed health workers and their families to...

  Turkish forces killed a jihadist woman who tried to blew herself up at a Turkish observation point, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday. The Turkish forces stationed in “Tala’e Al-Ba’ath Camp” in Al-Mastumah area, on the road between Idlib city...

Oil prices fell on Thursday, after rising steeply in the two previous sessions, as concerns about weak fuel demand re-emerged and producers in the Gulf of Mexico prepared to resume output following Hurricane Sally. Brent crude  futures fell 67 cents, or 1.6%, to $41.55 a barrel at 0628...