Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) has declared a 10-day curfew starting Friday to fight the novel coronavirus.   At a press conference Wednesday in the capital Tripoli, the Supreme Committee for Combating COVID-19 said all vegetable and meat markets will...

The ruling party in South Korea clinched a landslide victory in the general elections held amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to unofficial results on Thursday. With nearly all votes for the directly contested seats counted, the country's election commission said the ruling...

Japan's government will convene a key panel of medics Thursday to advise on its state of emergency over the coronavirus, as local media reported the prime minister would expand the measures to cover the entire country. Shinzo Abe has already declared a month-long state of emergency in seven...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A fire broke out in four warehouses in Souq al-Hal, the main fruit marketplace in the Syrian capital on Thursday, local media outlets said. The state-run news agency (SANA) said no casualties had been reported and the blaze was under control. Shop owners ruled...