A magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit Japan's Pacific Ocean coast off Honshu Island on Sunday, the country's meteorological agency reported. The agency said the quake occurred around 1.13 a.m. local time (0400GMT) at a depth of 50 kilometers (31 miles). Nagano and Aichi states were also jolted...

India's tally of coronavirus cases is expected to cross 6 million on Sunday, the Health Ministry said. The case count increased by a million in just over 10 days. Over the last 24 hours, 88,600 cases and 1,224 deaths were reported. This takes the total number of cases to 5.99...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham says he hopes his committee will approve Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court by the week of Oct. 26, setting up a final confirmation vote on the Senate floor one week before the Nov. 3 presidential election. Trump nominated...

The Lebanese security forces killed at least two militants during a heavy exchange of fire on Saturday with an armed group in northeast Lebanon, close to the Syrian border, security sources said. Three members of the Lebanese security forces were also injured in the clash, which began...

Three Syrian refugees from the same family were killed in a crash involving two vehicles at the Gaziantep-Adana highway, Turkish media outlets said on Saturday. The three refugees died at the scene after the car collided with a truck near the city of Nur Dag in southern Turkey....

A booby-trapped vehicle exploded in a Syrian town on the border with Turkey on Saturday, killing seven people, residents said, in an area that has seen regular bomb attacks since Turkish-backed Syrian rebels seized it from Kurdish-led forces. The vehicle exploded in the border town of...

A key committee of Iraq’s parliament has called for a halt on attacks on foreign missions and US forces in the country.  "Iraq is facing serious challenges which require the adoption of clear and courageous stances before the [Iraqi] people,” Mohammad Redha al-Haidar, chair of the...

More than 75% of COVID-19 patients in Bangladesh have now recovered, authorities said on Saturday. With 1,753 more patients cleared over the past 24 hours, the number of recoveries in the country now stands at 268,777, or 75.1%, according to the Health Ministry. Some 36 more...

Groundbreaking innovations, from artificial intelligence (AI) to blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT), will take root and grow at Teknofest, Turkey’s biggest aerospace and technology event, the nation’s president said on Saturday. Teknofest is a place for young people who want to...

India enforced one of the world’s most stringent lockdowns in March to check the spread of the coronavirus. The shutdown took effect four hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement and created chaos and confusion as Indians were totally unprepared. All economic...

The death toll from a military plane crash reached 25, according to a statement by the chief prosecutor in Ukraine early Saturday.  The prosecutor’s office said an investigation has been launched into the crash of an AN-26 type military plane near Kharkiv that also severely injured two...

The US Army has sent 70 trucks to Syria through the al-Waleed border crossing with Iraq, local sources said Friday. The convoy, including 12 armored vehicles, trucks with essential supplies, and several fuel tankers, went to US bases in Syria’s Hasakah, Raqqa and Deir ez-Zour provinces...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump's campaign has grown increasingly focused on making inroads in Pennsylvania to offset potential vulnerabilities in other battlegrounds. The president will travel to the state for the second time in a week on Saturday, hoping to attract the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce Saturday that he is nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court as he aims to put a historic conservative stamp on the high court just weeks before the election. Trump said Friday he had made up his mind and it...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- After excelling in both his studies and work, Sajid Kasabra, was named as one of the best financial and insurance consultant in 6 companies in the city of Freiburg, few months month after joining Barmenia, one of the major independent insurance groups in Germany....

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on everyone, the most vulnerable members of society, including refugees, were among the first to lose their jobs and income, according to a UN representative in Turkey.  "As refugees were overwhelmingly working informally before the...

Three people have died and 16 are feared drowned after a boat carrying refugees and migrants capsized off Libya’s coast on Thursday night, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which added there were 22 survivors. The dead include two Syrians and one man from...

New York city's mayor has pulled out of a Saudi summit over human rights concerns, amid calls for a boycott of the event that coincides with the anniversary of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder. Bill de Blasio, who announced his decision on Thursday, withdrew from the Urban 20 (U20)...

It began with devastation in the New York City area, followed by a summertime crisis in the Sun Belt. Now the coronavirus is striking cities with much smaller populations in the heartland, often in conservative corners of America where anti-mask sentiment runs high. The spread has created...

President Vladimir Putin called on Friday for an agreement between Russia and the United States to guarantee not to engage in cyber-meddling in each other’s elections. In a statement ahead of the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3, Putin called for a reset between Russia and the United...