The shiny new robots gently check the pulses of highly infectious patients on life support in the Italian epicentre of COVID-19. The doctors and nurses love them because they also help save their own lives. Italians have seen the world around them turn unrecognisable from the...

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia was ready for deep oil production cuts with the United States and OPEC, but firmly put the blame for the collapse in oil prices on OPEC’s de facto leader Saudi Arabia. Putin, speaking in a televised video conference with Russian government...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Landmines killed three people, including a US-backed fighter, in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, local activists said Friday. A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces was killed and others wounded in a landmind explosion in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor...

Italy on Friday reported 766 more deaths from the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of fatalities to 14,681, still the highest in the world, but apparently confirming signs of a slowdown.  The continued slowdown in the rise of infections – down from the double-digit...