The facility at Al-Faiha Stadium will operate 120 beds for people requiring oxygen, but has capacity for 100 more. The health ministry has reported 4,774 cases of Covid-19 and 228 deaths in government-held areas since March. However, experts believe the actual figures are significantly...

The World Bank has approved $12 billion in financing to help developing countries buy and distribute coronavirus vaccines, tests, and treatments, aiming to support the vaccination of up to 1 billion people. The $12 billion "envelop" is part of a wider World Bank Group package of up to $160...

Joe Biden heads for Florida on Tuesday to court elderly Americans who helped elect Donald Trump four years ago but appear to be swinging to the Democratic candidate for the White House this time around amid the coronavirus pandemic. Biden, at 77 the oldest Democratic nominee ever, is to...

The United States said Tuesday it had reached an "agreement in principle" with Russia on extending New START, the two nations' last major nuclear accord, which is due to expire in February. President Donald Trump's administration has been insisting without success that China enter the...

The European Union demanded “substantive” movement on Tuesday from Britain on fisheries, dispute settlement and guarantees of fair competition in their talks on a post-Brexit trade deal, with Germany saying they were at a “critical stage”. France said the 27-nation bloc must not yield on...

A vast majority of people in Arab countries are not in favor of normalizing ties with Israel without settling the Palestinian issue, according to a recently published survey. Some 88% of over 28,000 respondents across 13 countries in the Middle East and North Africa opposed diplomatic...

Turkish charity the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) on Tuesday sent aid supplies to rural Idlib, a northern province of Syria, where millions of people are living in desperate conditions due to internal conflict. Some 2,419 boxes containing food supplies such as dry legumes, cereals,...

Governments across Europe are ratcheting up restrictions in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus as the continent recorded its highest weekly number of new infections since the start of the pandemic. The World Health Organization said Tuesday there were more than 700,000 new...

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other Tuesday of violating a ceasefire agreed three days ago to quell fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, drawing warnings from international groups of a humanitarian crisis in the region. The Russia-brokered truce is buckling despite mounting calls from...

Hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police in a provincial Tunisian town on Tuesday after authorities bulldozed an unlicensed cigarette kiosk, killing its owner sleeping inside, witnesses said. Street protests are frequent in Tunisia, where a popular uprising toppled...

The International Monetary Fund Tuesday said forecasts for the global economy were "somewhat less dire" as wealthy countries and China rebounded more quickly than expected from coronavirus lockdowns but warned that the outlook was worsening for many emerging markets. The IMF forecast a 2020...

Armed with a snorkel mask and a home-made gun shaped like a trident, and dressed in a green sweatshirt and jogging pants, Ashraf Al-Amoudi goes hunting every day in the coastal waters of Gaza. He is one of scores of spear fishermen who scratch out a living close to shore in the Hamas...

Russia on Tuesday reported 13,868 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 244 fatalities, bringing the total number of cases to 1.32 million and the deaths to 22,966, according to health authorities. This sets a new record for daily infections. The country has reported over 13,000 daily...

The number of patients who have recovered from the novel coronavirus in Africa has reached 1.31 million, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday. With the number of cases having stood at 1.58 million, active cases are 272,356, it said in its latest update....

Direct flights between Israel and the UAE, slated to begin in October after a landmark normalization deal, are to be postponed until January because of coronavirus, an Israeli official said Tuesday. The air link announced after the two states signed the deal at the White House last month...

Lebanon and Israel, formally still at war after decades of conflict, launch talks on Wednesday to address a long-running dispute over their maritime border running through potentially gas-rich Mediterranean waters. The U.S.-mediated talks follow three years of intense diplomacy by Washington...

Germany Tuesday called on Turkey to end a "cycle of detente and provocation" in the Mediterranean, after Ankara's decision to redeploy a research ship at the centre of tensions with Greece over energy and maritime rights. "If there should be renewed Turkish gas exploration in the more...

China's imports grew at their fastest pace this year in September, while exports extended strong gains as more trading partners lifted coronavirus restrictions in a further boost to the world's second-biggest economy. Exports in September rose 9.9 percent from a year earlier, customs data...

The head of the World Health Organization warned against the idea that herd immunity might be a realistic strategy to stop the pandemic, dismissing such proposals as "simply unethical." At a media briefing Monday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said health officials...

Syrian President Bashar Assad has made a rare public visit to the coastal province of Latakia where he toured areas that suffered heavy damage in last week’s wildfires that killed three people, state media reported Tuesday. Assad’s public visits to areas around Syria have been rare since...