The Israeli authorities issued 20 military orders preventing Palestinians from entering olive gardens in the occupied West Bank, according to a Palestinian official.  Walid Assaf, the head of the National Committee to Resist the Wall and Settlements affiliated with the Palestine...

Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces accused each other on Monday of launching new attacks in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, increasing pressure on a humanitarian ceasefire intended to stop the heaviest fighting over the enclave for more than 25 years. Azerbaijan said its military positions had...

Israel’s cabinet approved a normalisation deal with the United Arab Emirates on Monday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he and Abu Dhabi’s crown prince had agreed in a phone call to meet soon. The U.S.-brokered “treaty of peace” with the Gulf Arab country broke new diplomatic...

Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko should be part of a new sanctions list by the European Union, Germany’s foreign minister Heiko Maas said on Monday before meeting his European counterparts in Luxembourg. “We have to acknowledge that since our last meeting nothing has improved. The...

French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Monday he did not rule out local lockdowns in France due to a resurgence of new coronavirus infections. “Nothing must be excluded,” Castex told franceinfo radio after he was asked about potential local lockdowns. Castex also said the country was...

The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 can survive on items such as banknotes and phones for up to 28 days in cool, dark conditions, according to a study by Australia's national science agency. Researchers at CSIRO's disease preparedness center tested the longevity of SARS-CoV-2 in the dark...

The five-month-old baby girl of Wadha Sharmoukh has only lived in a tent because Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies captured her family's hometown in northern Syria from Kurdish forces a year ago. She was a born in a dusty camp crowded with Kurdish civilians who fled their towns and...

China aims to test more than nine million residents of the port city of Qingdao within five days following a minor coronavirus outbreak, health officials said Monday, the first mass testing in months. The country where the virus first emerged has largely controlled its outbreak, cutting a...

Lewis Hamilton equaled Michael Schumacher's all-time record of 91 wins in Formula 1 after winning the Eifel Grand Prix on Sunday. The British driver who represents Mercedes completed the 60-lap race in 1 hour 35 minutes to win the Round 11 in Germany's Nurburgring. Red Bull's Dutch...

The UN envoy for Yemen is set to arrive in Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday to discuss a peace proposal for the war-torn country with Yemeni and Saudi officials. A UN source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Martin Griffiths will try convincing the Yemeni government to agree on a...

Forces loyal to the Assad regime are behind the recent protests near Turkish observation posts in Idlib, northwestern Syria, according to security sources. The forces often make attempts to disrupt peace in the region where Turkish soldiers are stationed to protect the local population and...

Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, state media reported on Sunday, as the country announced a new record high in daily fatalities. Salehi, a vice president and the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, had been under quarantine and...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce new measures to tackle a growing coronavirus crisis on Monday, moving to work more closely with local leaders from England’s worst affected areas. With Johnson reluctant to repeat a national lockdown that would further hurt a...

 Israel’s finance minister promised on Sunday the long awaited 2021 state budget would be ready in December amid accusations the government was dragging its heels for political reasons and after a third senior economic official quit in three months. Failure to pass last year’s budget...

An array of Iran-backed Iraqi militia groups have suspended rocket attacks on U.S. forces on condition that Iraq's government present a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops, one of the groups said on Sunday. A spokesman for Kataib Hezbollah, one of the most powerful Iran-backed...

US President Donald Trump on Sunday declared himself immune from Covid-19 and ready for a fight as his White House race against surging rival Joe Biden enters its critical final weeks. Trump was given the all-clear Saturday to return to the campaign trail after he was ruled no longer a...

The self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus started a vote Sunday for a new leader amid heightened tensions on the divided island and in the wider eastern Mediterranean region. The election in the breakaway TRNC that is recognised only by Ankara comes three days after Turkish...

Apple is expected on Tuesday to unveil a keenly anticipated iPhone 12 line-up starring models tuned to super-fast new 5G telecom networks in an update considered vital to the company's fortunes. A streamed event was cryptically teased with the message "Hi, Speed" in an apparent reference to...

Libya’s national oil company announced Sunday it is resuming production at the country’s largest oil field as rival officials from eastern and western Libya began peace talks, part of preliminary negotiations ahead a U.N.-brokered dialogue set to take place next month. The National Oil...

About 40 unidentified people armed with metal bars and using fireworks as projectiles tried to storm a police station in the Paris suburbs on Saturday night, officials said. "Violent attack last night on the police station of Champigny with mortar shots and various projectiles. No police...