Iran on Monday confirmed 217 additional fatalities from the novel coronavirus, bringing the nationwide death toll to 14,405. A further 2,414 people tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, raising the overall count to 276,202, Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari said....

A forest fire which broke out in northwestern Turkey Monday afternoon continues but has been brought under control, said local officials.  No casualties have been reported so far from the blaze, which erupted in Kemalkoy in the Canakkale province. A total of 130 firefighters, 20...

German biotech firm BioNTech and US drugmaker Pfizer Monday reported additional data from their experimental COVID-19 vaccine that showed it was safe and induced an immune response in patients. BioNtech's US shares gained 12 percent, while Pfizer's stock rose 3.6 percent in early trading....

Iraqi Kurdish authorities Monday denied handing over to Turkey the niece of an influential Syrian Kurdish official wanted by Ankara, as claimed by her family. The interior ministry in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region dismissed the accusation from the family of Dalia Mahmoud...