Iranian health authorities reported over 100 new deaths from the novel coronavirus Sunday for the third day running, stressing that the outbreak had not yet peaked in the hard-hit country. Iran reported its first coronavirus cases on February 19 and has since struggled to contain the...

Yemeni separatists funded by the United Arab Emirates Saturday took control of military and police camps in Yemen's Socotra archipelago, a UNESCO World Heritage site, security officials said. By day's end the separatist militia had taken control of most of the remote province from forces of...

Iraqi football legend Ahmed Radhi died Sunday from complications linked to COVID-19, the health ministry said, just hours before he was to be flown for treatment in Jordan. Radhi, 56, scored what remains Iraq's only World Cup finals goal in 1986 against Belgium. He had been hospitalised...

China's capital reported 22 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday after a mass testing effort that has collected more than two million samples in a race to contain a new outbreak. The fresh cluster in Beijing has raised fears of a resurgence of the virus in China, which had largely brought...