Emirates, the largest airline in the Middle East, said Monday it had so far returned $1.4 billion in refunds to customers amid sharply reduced global travel due to the coronavirus pandemic. "Emirates reveals that is has returned over 5 billion dirhams in Covid-19 related travel refunds,"...

Annual trade between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is expected to reach $4 billion, an Israeli minister said Monday. Israel and the UAE announced in August they would normalize diplomatic relations in a deal brokered by Washington. The UAE has since announced it was scrapping an...

 Greece will be bolstering its military with new armament programs, a boost to military personnel and the development of the country’s defense industry, the government spokesman said Monday, as a tense stand-off with neighboring Turkey has led to concerns of open conflict between the two...

Morocco imposed a lockdown on Casablanca and shut its schools Monday, the day they were supposed to reopen after summer, in a bid to stop the spread of Covid-19. The new measures, which include restrictions on movement and a night-time curfew, would be in place for two weeks in the...

Syria's Agriculture Minister Mohamed Hassan Qatna said that   ongoing “rigorous” investigations are underway on the fires that broke out in northwestern Hama province. The minister's statement to Al-Watan daily came in response to claims that fires were contrived as massive...

Oil prices were trading down more than 1% on Monday after hitting their lowest since July, as Saudi Arabia made the deepest monthly price cuts for supply to Asia in five months and optimism about demand recovery cooled amid the pandemic. Brent crude LCOc1 was at $42.11 a barrel, down 55...

More than 200 people were airlifted to safety after being trapped by a fast-moving wildfire near a popular recreation area in northern California, officials said Sunday. The evacuees climbed aboard military helicopters after the blaze, in bone-dry conditions, cut off ground escape routes...

A powerful typhoon lashed South Korea on Monday after smashing into southern Japan with record winds and heavy rains that left four people missing in a landslide. Half a million people were without power after Typhoon Haishen roared past Japan's southern-most main island of Kyushu, ripping...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given an October 15 deadline for a post-Brexit trade agreement with the European Union, brushing off fears about "no-deal" chaos if talks fail. The eighth round of negotiations resume in London this week, with both sides talking increasingly tough,...

With coronavirus cases surging as a new school year begins, many Spanish parents are refusing to send their children back to class despite the threat of sanctions. "You have your whole life to learn, but if you lose your health, that's it," says Aroa Miranda, a 37-year-old mother-of-two who...

India overtook Brazil on Monday as the country with the second highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases, even as key metro train lines re-opened as part of efforts to boost the South Asian nation's battered economy. India has emerged in recent weeks as the new global pandemic hotspot,...

More than 200 United Nations staff members have contracted Covid-19 in Syria, as the global body stepped up its contingency plans to combat the fast spread of the pandemic in the country, medical workers and UN officials have said. The UN's resident coordinator and humanitarian...

Two Turkish forces were wounded on Sunday by unidentified gunmen in northern Idlib province, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter. The attack took place at the international Aleppo-Latakia Highway, known as (M4) while t he Turkish forces were having lunch at a local restaurant near the...

 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and European Council President Charles Michel discussed developments in the Eastern Mediterranean on Sunday, CNN Turk reported. NATO allies Turkey and Greece have been locked in a row over hydrocarbon exploration in the sea’s disputed waters and the...

Three Katyusha rockets fell in the vicinity of Baghdad airport on Sunday but caused no casualties, Iraqi state news agency INA said. One of the rockets landed in the airport garage damaging four civilian vehicles, it said, citing a military statement.. Last week, in three separate...

The racing Williams family ended their association with Formula One on Sunday with an understated result at the Italian Grand Prix that reflected their recent fortunes and a pledge from one of their drivers to "drive like hell to honour the name". After 740 races, 114 victories, 128 pole...

French health authorities reported 7,071 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Sunday, down from Saturday's 8,550 and also below Friday's peak of 8,975. Friday's figure had set a new all-time high of daily additional infections for the country. The number of people hospitalised for the disease...

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched Sunday to the outskirts of the presidential residence in the capital of Belarus, calling for the country's authoritarian leader to resign as protests against President Alexander Lukashenko entered their fifth week. Protests also took place in major...

Faint hopes of a miracle rescue from the rubble of the Lebanese capital's catastrophic August 4 explosion were snuffed out Sunday as a civil defence chief announced the search had been in vain. "There's nothing more," after an exhaustive search that lasted three days, George Abou Moussa,...

France's Pierre Gasly won an astonishing Italian Grand Prix thriller for Italy-based AlphaTauri Sunday in a topsy-turvy race packed with suspense and none of the usual top teams on the podium. McLaren's Spaniard Carlos Sainz finished a close second at Monza after a nail-biting chase to the...