The morning bell Monday marked the first entrance to the classroom for the children of Codogno since Feb. 21, when panicked parents were sent to pick up their children after the northern Italian town gained notoriety as the first in the West to record local transmission of the coronavirus....

Working conditions are so bad for some medics in Morocco handling a surging coronavirus outbreak that they have staged protests against inadequate staffing and poorly equipped facilities. The kingdom recorded a record 2,430 cases on Friday and has confirmed more than 1,000 new cases every...

The defense ministers of Bahrain and Israel held their first publicly acknowledged phone call Monday since their countries agreed to normalize ties. Bahraini state news agency BNA and a spokeswoman for Israel's defense ministry said Bahrain's minister of defense affairs, Abdulla bin Hassan...

The Trump administration is hoping to capitalize on agreements to be signed this week between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain by pressing for an end to a dispute that has roiled relations between the Gulf Arab countries. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the US is...