With a practiced hand, a courier balances a tray of steaming cups and with the other grips his bicycle handlebars as he weaves between cars in the crowded Gaza Strip. Shaaban Hamuda's modest coffee on wheels business is giving the coastal Palestinian territory its first taste of a delivery...

Australia on Monday posted its highest number of new coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, even as officials expressed hope outbreaks in locked-down Melbourne may have peaked. A day after Australia reported its highest daily death toll, authorities confirmed at least 549 new COVID-19...

"Gone With the Wind" star Olivia de Havilland, a winner of two Academy Awards and among the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, died on Sunday at her home in Paris. She was 104. De Havilland died of natural causes at her home in the French capital, where she had lived for...

Protests took a violent turn in several U.S. cities over the weekend, with demonstrators squaring off against federal agents outside a courthouse in Portland, Oregon, forcing police in Seattle to retreat into a station house and setting fire to vehicles in California and Virginia. A protest...

An Israeli drone crashed inside Lebanon during operational activity along the border, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. "There is no concern that any information was leaked," the spokeswoman said. Israel's Channel 12 reported that the drone crashed after it experienced a technical...

Taking selfies and waving Chinese flags curious locals flocked to the US consulate in Chengdu Sunday as officials prepared to remove its official plaque just days after Washington and Beijing ordered each other to close one of their diplomatic missions. Tensions between the two countries...

At least one civilian was killed in a mortar attack by Assad regime forces in the de-escalation zone in Idlib, northwestern Syria, a civil defense group said Sunday. Two others were also injured in the attacks targeting Ein Laruz village, the White Helmets said. Idlib falls within a...

US Special Envoy Brian Hook said Sunday a deep rift among Gulf Arab states had gone on for too long and he urged them to rebuild trust and unity. Gulf states Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and non-Gulf state Egypt cut ties with Qatar in mid-2017 over accusations it supports...

Women across Turkey gathered Sunday in support of a landmark treaty on combating violence against women as fears grow over Ankara's possible withdrawal from the agreement. The demonstrations are part of the rising anger in Turkey at the growing number of women killed, including the murder...

A Zoroastrian priest who resided in the United States has been killed on a visit to Iran, the country's judiciary said in local media reports Sunday. The body of Arash Kasravi was found in the central province of Kerman alongside those of two other people who were not members of the...

Libya's UN-recognized government has disavowed a visit by French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, a champion of the 2011 ouster of longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi whose standing has plummeted since the uprising. Across Libya, the euphoria of the NATO-backed rebellion has long since faded as...

At 24, Sama al-Diwani and her college sweetheart had big dreams. He was working on opening a bakery in Iraq. She was preparing to leave to England, where she would spend a year working on her masters’ degree in pharmacy. After that, they would reunite, get married and start a family....

At least 8 civilians were killed and 17 more wounded in a bomb attack in the Turkish-held region of Ras al-Ayn northeastern Syria, Turkey’s Defense Ministry and activists said Sunday. The suspected YPG-blast went off in the vegetable marketplace in the Turkish-held region. ...

Israel violated Lebanon's air space at least 29 times in the last 48 hours, Lebanese authorities said Saturday. "On Friday, Israeli planes violated Lebanese air space 20 times, and on Saturday 9 times," according to a statement by the Lebanese army. All violations were in a circular...

Brazil reported Sunday 1,211 more deaths from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, according to its Health Ministry. Brazil, one of the worst-hit countries in the world, registered a death toll of 86,449 with the latest fatalities, according to the ministry. The number of...

The top US general made an unannounced visit to Israel Friday to discuss "regional security challenges" at a time of heightened tensions with Iran and its allies across the Middle East. Army Gen. Mark Milley, the Joint Chiefs chairman, met with senior Israeli military and intelligence...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un placed the city of Kaesong near the border with South Korea under total lockdown after a person was found with suspected COVID-19 symptoms, saying he believes “the vicious virus” may have entered the country, state media reported Sunday.  If the person...

Israel violated Lebanon's air space at least 29 times in the last 48 hours, Lebanese authorities said Saturday. "On Friday, Israeli planes violated Lebanese air space 20 times, and on Saturday 9 times," according to a statement by the Lebanese army. All violations were in a...

Tunisia’s Interior Minister Hisham El-Mechishi will form the country’s government, the official news agency announced Saturday.  Tunisian President Kais Saied appointed el-Mechishi to form the government, according to the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP). Having no attachments to a...

(Eqtsad)- Abdulrahman Darwish, a Syrian displaced continues to work in his first profession as a "dental prosthetics technician" in which he worked in the harsh conditions of the siege on the region, in addition to working in the field of manufacturing and installing artificial "glass"...