Too many doctors and nurses are paying the ultimate price while battling Covid-19, the World Health Organization said Thursday as it launched a charter aiming to boost safety for health workers. The UN health agency said that the pandemic had exposed health workers and their families to...

Swiss exports of gold to the United States all but halted in August while shipments to China and India rose, customs data showed on Thursday, suggesting a big transfer of bullion to New York that followed the cororonavirus outbreak has run its course. The pandemic upended the global gold...

The Emirates airline group unveiled plans Thursday to produce kosher meals in keeping with Jewish dietary rules, two days after the UAE and Israel signed a deal to normalise ties. Dubai-based Emirates, the largest airline in the Middle East, is expected to start flying to the Jewish state...

  Turkish forces killed a jihadist woman who tried to blew herself up at a Turkish observation point, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday. The Turkish forces stationed in “Tala’e Al-Ba’ath Camp” in Al-Mastumah area, on the road between Idlib city and...

 The emergencies chief of the World Health Organization says scientific disagreements over COVID-19 interventions - like masks and vaccines - shouldn’t be treated as "some kind of political football," but acknowledged that "it isn’t easy for everyone to be on message all the time."...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday said France was being led by an "incapable" president as he stepped up his personal feud with Emmanuel Macron. Erdogan and Macron have traded insults for months after finding themselves on opposite sides of conflicts ranging from Libya and...

 Two Palestinian travel bloggers are promoting local Palestinian tourism in the West Bank as an act of defiance against Israeli occupation. The West Bank is scattered with sites holy to Christians, Muslims and Jews, and its mountainous landscape offers breathtaking views from the hills...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Thursday that authorities will have to impose tougher measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 and "protect’’ the Christmas holidays as the government prepared to introduce stricter measures in northeast England. Johnson’s comments came amid...

Lebanon's largest prison has more than 200 coronavirus cases, the head of the country's doctors' union warned Thursday, calling for speedy trials to ease overcrowding. "There are more than 200 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Roumieh prison," Sharaf Abu Sharaf told journalists in Beirut,...

Oil prices fell on Thursday, after rising steeply in the two previous sessions, as concerns about weak fuel demand re-emerged and producers in the Gulf of Mexico prepared to resume output following Hurricane Sally. Brent crude  futures fell 67 cents, or 1.6%, to $41.55 a barrel at 0628...

Libya’s internationally recognised Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj said on Wednesday he wants to quit by the end of October, which could feed political tensions in Tripoli amid new efforts to find a political solution to the country’s conflict. “I declare my sincere desire to hand over my...

 Greek police began moving hundreds of migrants stranded on the island of Lesbos into a new temporary tent camp on Thursday, more than a week after a fire razed Greece’s biggest migrant camp where they had been staying. The operation, including 70 female officers, was intended to...

In defiance of overwhelming opposition, the United States is preparing to declare that all international sanctions against Iran have been restored. Few countries believe the move is legal, and such action could provoke a credibility crisis at the United Nations. Virtually alone in the...

(Eqtsad)- “We fled death in Syria and now death haunts us here in Lebanon,” Mohamed Khoury said gravely, leaving Beirut, now, his greatest wish. The 18-year-old shares a basement apartment with his family in Gemmayzeh district, Beirut. His previous home was destroyed in the port...

Latin America has started to resume normal social and public life at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic still requires major control interventions, the World Health Organization regional director Carissa Etienne said Wednesday. Speaking in a virtual briefing from Washington with other...

The Trump administration vowed Wednesday to impose the "full force" of US sanctions on any international arms manufacturers who deal with Iran once Washington sees a United Nations arms embargo on Tehran as reimposed. Elliott Abrams, US special envoy on Iran, issued the warning in a...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday that Ankara was open to "constructive" talks but would remain determined in its eastern Mediterranean standoff with Greece. The videoconference call between the two leaders came ahead of an EU summit...

The Jordanian authorities have over the past few months deported dozens of Syrian refugees to a desolate camp on the Syria-Jordan border, despite deteriorating conditions and accusations from rights groups that the returns are a breach of international law. Jordan has been sending...

President Donald Trump appeared to confirm on Tuesday — contradicting his own previous remarks — that he had wanted to assassinate Syrian strongman Bashar Assad in 2017, but that his then-Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis opposed the operation. "I would have rather taken him out. I...

The US army denied media reports claiming that one of its helicopters had crashed in northern Syria, Anadolu news agency reported. The army said in a statement that the helicopter had “landed safely and was not shot down by any hostile activity.” According to the statement, the...