For years, social media platforms have fueled political polarization and hosted an explosion of hate speech. Now, with four months until the US presidential election and the country’s divisions reaching a boiling point, these companies are upping their game against bigotry and threats of...

Unpaid salaries, mask shortages, threats from patients' families -- doctors across Iraq are cracking under such conditions, just as they face a long-feared spike in coronavirus cases. "We're collapsing," said Mohammed, a doctor at a COVID-19 ward in Baghdad who declined to use his full name...

US and Saudi officials Monday called for extending a UN arms embargo on Iran, warning of major implications for regional security amid accusations that Tehran was arming Yemeni rebels. The embargo, put in place as part of a nuclear accord signed with Tehran in 2015, is set to expire in...

The death toll from Covid-19 reached half a million people on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, a grim milestone for the global pandemic that seems to be resurgent in some countries even as other regions are still grappling with the first wave. The respiratory illness caused by the new...