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In the poverty-stricken mountains of southern Mexico, children can only dream of internet or television that would allow them to join millions of others following distance learning during the pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak and its impact on education are just the latest chapters in...
A Lebanon-based consulting company hit by US sanctions said Friday it was surprised by the move and accused Washington of seeking to choke the battered Lebanese economy. The United States imposed sanctions Thursday on an official from Hezbollah, a movement backed by Iran and deemed a...
A presidential campaign that was already tugging at the nation’s most searing divides has been jolted by the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, potentially reshaping the election at a moment when some Americans were beginning to cast ballots. For months, the contest has...
Homes were destroyed Friday by an unrelenting wildfire that reached a Mojave Desert community and was still growing on several fronts after burning for nearly two weeks in mountains northeast of Los Angeles. Officials were investigating the death of a firefighter on the lines of another...
The U.S. Commerce Department said Friday it will ban Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat from U.S. app stores on Sunday and will bar the apps from accessing essential internet services in the U.S. — a move that could effectively wreck the operation of both Chinese services for U.S. users....
The U.S. has deployed additional troops and armored vehicles into eastern Syria after a number of clashes with Russian forces, including a recent vehicle collision that injured four American service members. Navy Capt. Bill Urban, spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said the U.S. has...
France reported 13,215 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, a new daily record. The health ministry also said that the total number of deaths from COVID-19 increased by 123 to 31,249. That would make the daily toll the highest in three months. Based Thursday's...
The United States has accused Hezbollah of stockpiling ammonium nitrate in several European countries, suggesting a possible link between the Lebanese Shiite movement and the recent massive explosion in Beirut. "Since 2012, Hezbollah has established caches of ammonium nitrate throughout...
Flooding has affected well over a million people across East Africa, another calamity threatening food security on top of a historic locust outbreak and the coronavirus pandemic. The Nile River has hit its highest levels in a half-century under heavy seasonal rainfall, and large parts of...
The coronavirus pandemic is far from the minds of homeless migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos who are facing extreme hunger, dehydration, exhaustion and myriad illnesses, an aid worker has warned. Nearly 13,000 people, including thousands of children, were left homeless after Europe's...
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey was upset that Libya’s internationally recognised Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, an ally, wants to quit next month and Ankara may hold talks with his government on the issue in the coming week. Sarraj announced on Wednesday his intention to...
A Lebanon-based consulting company hit by US sanctions said Friday it was surprised by the move and accused Washington of seeking to choke the battered Lebanese economy. The United States imposed sanctions Thursday on an official from Hezbollah, a movement backed by Iran and deemed a...
Pep Guardiola said Friday that only Lionel Messi knows if a move to Manchester City is a possibility next year after the Argentine reluctantly decided to stay at Barcelona this season. In an explosive interview earlier this month, Messi blasted Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu,...
Two Iraqi officials and a businessman have been arrested as part of a new anti-corruption drive spearheaded by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi, government sources said Friday. The arrests represent a rare instance in which current officials -- usually deemed too well-connected to touch in...
Armed groups in the area of northern Syria controlled by Turkey may have committed war crimes and other violations of international law, the UN rights chief said Friday. Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the situation in those areas of Syria was...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Father of the 3-year-old Asyaf, who was born with congenital amputation in Atmeh refugee camps, has appealed to the Turkish President and authorities to install prosthetic and arms limbs to his displaced son in Turkey. The plea came just three weeks after a similar case...
Eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar said Friday his forces would let oil production resume after an eight-month blockade and a senior politician in Tripoli said a committee would be formed to ensure fair distribution of revenues. However, National Oil Corporation (NOC), which operates...
The Netherlands is preparing a case against Syria at the UN's highest court, seeking to hold the government of President Bashar al-Assad accountable for human rights violations, including torture and the use of chemical weapons, the Dutch foreign minister told parliament Friday. Syria has...
A Damascus-based network reported new details about the August-31 Israeli strikes on Iranian weapons depots near the Damascus International Airport and on Al-Hejana military base on the outskirts of the village of the same name. According to a security source, the first raid that...
For years, small boats have left northern Lebanon’s coast, packed with desperate migrants hoping to reach European shores. Until recently, they carried mostly Syrian and Palestinian refugees. But with Lebanon in freefall, its citizens have begun joining their ranks in larger numbers....
