Lebanon's caretaker prime minister Hassan Diab urged the central bank on Tuesday to hand over missing documents needed for a forensic audit demanded by international creditors. In September, New York based firm Alvarez and Marsal started a forensic audit of the Bank of Lebanon as part of...

 Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday the U.S. presidential election’s result will not impact Tehran’s policy towards Washington. “Our policy towards the United States is clearly set and does not change with the movement of individuals. It does not matter to us...

On his motorbike, Mohammed Derbas speeds across a field in northeast Syria, slender Saluki dogs galloping behind. He hopes to export them for racing in the Gulf, despite war and coronavirus. Salukis, cousins of the greyhound, have been used for hunting for thousands of years in the...

A three-year-old girl was pulled out of the rubble alive on Tuesday days after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit Turkey's Aegean region. Ayda Gezgin was rescued in the Bayrakli district of the Aegean Izmir province 91 hours after the quake. Ayda, the 107th survivor to be rescued,...

At least 472 people have been tested positive for novel coronavirus  in rebel-held areas in northern Syria , the Epidemiological Surveillance Laboratory said Tuesday. The positive cases toll has reached a total of 6,535 in northwestern Syria. The laboratory has also...

Stunned students demonstrated outside Kabul University on Tuesday after at least 22 people were killed in a brutal, on-campus attack claimed by the Islamic State group. Holding banners stating: "Stop Killing Us", the small gathering came as Afghanistan observed a national day of mourning...

The death toll from a powerful earthquake which hit western Turkey rose to 100 on Tuesday, the country's disaster authority said. The 7.0 magnitude quake also injured 994 people, the agency known by its Turkish acronym AFAD reported, with 147 still in hospital. It added that rescue...

Saudi Arabian state oil group Aramco 2222.SE on Tuesday reported a 44.6% drop in third-quarter net profit, in line with analysts' estimates, dented by lower crude oil prices and volumes sold as the coronavirus crisis choked demand. Weaker refining and chemicals margins have also hit the...

In the closing hours of a campaign shadowed by a once-in-a-century pandemic, President Donald Trump charged across the nation Monday delivering an incendiary but unsupported allegation that the election is rigged, while Democratic challenger Joe Biden pushed to claim states once seen as safely...

The assailant killed by police in an attack in central Vienna on Monday sympathised with the Islamic State (IS) group, Austria’s Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said Tuesday. At least three civilians were killed in the attack. “We experienced an attack yesterday evening from at least one...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has documented the deaths of 167 civilians, including 77 children, who have died due to the cold in Syria since March 2011.   The five-page report states that nearly 689,000 persons have been displaced in northwest Syria in the last month...

Gunmen opened fire on people enjoying a last night out at Vienna's cafes and restaurants before a coronavirus lockdown Monday in what authorities said was a terrorist attack that left at least two dead — including one of the assailants — and 15 wounded. “We are victims of a despicable...

 Saudi Arabia and Qatar are among countries slated to establish relations with Israel under a regional rapprochement launched by U.S. President Donald Trump, an Israeli official said on Monday. Straying from Israel’s reticence about Tuesday’s U.S. election, Intelligence Minister Eli...

Turkey registered 2,302 more novel coronavirus patients over the past 24 hours, according to Health Ministry data released Monday. The country's overall tally now stands at 379,775, the ministry said. Some 1,521 more patients recovered over the past day, raising the count to 327,007,...

President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden fought Monday through the eve of an election threatened by legal chaos and fears of violence after Trump, down in the polls and with only hours to go, pushed hard to discredit the US voting process. On Tuesday, the world will witness a country...

Spanish veteran Feliciano Lopez said on Monday that the vastly reduced prize money on offer for tennis players is the "best we can have" after setting up a Paris Masters second-round tie against Rafael Nadal. The final ATP Masters event of the season started at Bercy Arena on Monday behind...

An armed group in Ethiopia's restive Oromia region has carried out a "horrendous" attack on civilians, the government said Monday, with one survivor saying dozens had died. The incident is likely to further ramp up pressure on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace...

Armenia's prime minister called on Monday for an international investigation into the presence of "foreign mercenaries" in Nagorno-Karabakh after ethnic Armenian forces said they had captured two mercenaries from Syria. Azerbaijian has repeatedly denied the presence of foreign combatants in...

German police are investigating a Syrian satirist who filmed a video in a Berlin street in which, dressed in an Arab robe and turban, he flogged a handcuffed man wearing a mask depicting French President Emmanuel Macron. The video also showed Fayez Kanfash dragging the Macron character on a...

 Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte resisted pressure to impose a new economically-damaging national lockdown Monday despite spiking virus cases, instead proposing a regional approach that would target the hardest-hit areas. Reports had suggested Conte would push for a nationwide...