President-elect Joe Biden has chosen his longtime adviser Ron Klain to reprise his role as his chief of staff, installing an aide with decades of experience in the top role in his White House. Klain will lead a White House likely to be consumed by the response to the coronavirus pandemic,...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wooed sceptical investors Wednesday with a promise of painful reforms, throwing his full support behind a new economic team installed after his powerful son-in-law quit. In remarks that saw the Turkish lira gain more than three percent against the...

A Syrian family has set up home in an ancient Roman temple in northwest Syria to avoid the overcrowded refugee camps. Abdelaziz Al-Hassan, his wife and three children, fled Idlib after the regime and its allies intensified attacks in 2019. Between December 2019 and March 2020, one...

Vowing “to get right to work,” President-elect Joe Biden shrugged off President Donald Trump's fierce refusal to accept the election outcome as “inconsequential,” even as Democrats elsewhere warned that the Republican president's actions were dangerous. Raising unsupported claims of...