Taiwan on Monday said Chinese "obstruction" had prevented it from attending a key World Health Organization meeting focused on the coronavirus, accusing the global body of prioritising politics over health. The self-ruled island of 23 million has seen remarkable success in combatting the...

The Democratic Union Party’s Autonomous-administration continued the seizure of state homes and residential areas in the northeastern provinces of al-Raqqa and Hasakah. One of those affected told Zaman Al-Wasl that the Autonomous Administration asked 4 families to vacate the apartments...

President-elect Joe Biden signaled on Sunday he plans to move quickly to build out his government, focusing first on the raging pandemic that will likely dominate the early days of his administration. Biden named a former surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, and a former Food and Drug...

Joe Biden shored up the Democrats' "blue wall," - more sturdily in Michigan, more tenuously in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - to rebuild the party's path back to the White House. And while The Associated Press had called all three states and their combined 46 Electoral College votes for...