Rima settles in a chair at an upscale Riyadh cafe, looks around carefully, and seeing no one she recognises, drags on her electronic cigarette and exhales a cloud of smoke. "I feel that smoking in public is a part of exercising my newly won freedoms. I am happy that now that I can choose,"...

The number of people infected with the deadly new coronavirus on a quarantined ship off Japan has risen to 355, the country's health minister said Sunday, as the United States, Canada and Hong Kong prepare to repatriate their residents on board. The figure is a jump of 70 cases from a...

(Eqtsad)- It has been a habit of shepherds and hunting enthusiasts to kill wild porcupines in Syria, whether for meat or for medicinal properties in treating illnesses like arthritis, according to the hunters. Geographically, the wild porcupine species is spread all along the Arabian...

Russia has carried out airstrikes in northwestern Syria's Idlib de-escalation zone, killing at least four civilians, a Syrian civil defense group announced Saturday.    The Syrian opposition aircraft observatory said the Russian jets targeted rural areas near the western Aleppo...