OPEC and its allies are to meet via video conference Saturday to assess their current deal to slash production as oil prices tentatively recover on easing coronavirus lockdowns. The meeting, originally scheduled for next week, was brought forward to Saturday at the suggestion of...

Italy's interior ministry said Saturday it had expelled a Tunisian national linked to the man who carried out a deadly 2016 attack on a Berlin Christmas market. Montassar Yaakoubi, described by the ministry as "an associate of the Tunisian terrorist Anis Amri," was flown to Tunisia on a...

President Hassan Rouhani insisted Saturday that the country had no option but to keep its economy open despite warnings of a second wave of the epidemic that Rouhani claimed to have spawned from a wedding party in the country. Iran, which has been gradually relaxing its lockdown since...

Seventeen years after US troops invaded their country and eight months since protests engulfed their cities, Iraqis are sending solidarity, warnings and advice to demonstrators across America. Whether in Baghdad's Tahrir Square or on Twitter, Iraqis are closely watching the...

The Libyan army announced Saturday it launched five airstrikes on Sirte, soon after it indicated the liberation of the city is its new goal after Tarhuna.  The government's Burkan Al-Ghadab (Volcano of Rage) Operation said the strikes targeted armored vehicles provided by the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians were killed in a bomb attack in the Turkish-held Ras Al-Ayn region in northeastern Syria, security sources said Friday. An explosives-laden car detonated in the town of Ras al-Ayn, wounding five other civilians, sources told Turkish Anadolu Agency....

The UN said Friday that cease-fire talks in Libya began on June 3, with the UN support mission and Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar's forces operating in the east of Libya. At a twice-weekly press conference, UN Information Services Director Alessandra Vellucci answered a question from Anadolu...

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters will "fully consider" calls for a proposed Saudi-led takeover of Newcastle United to be blocked, according to a BBC report on Friday. Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has written to the league to oppose the...

A major British clinical trial has found hydroxychloroquine has "no benefit" for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, scientists said Friday, in the first large-scale study to provide results for a drug at the centre of political and scientific controversy. Hydroxychloroquine, a decades-old...

The United States said Friday it had shared a draft UN resolution with rival Russia that aims to extend an arms embargo on Iran that expires in October. Moscow has already voiced opposition to prolonging the ban on conventional arms sales to Tehran, with Russian firms expecting to conclude...

President Donald Trump took a victory lap Friday morning after the government reported surprising job gains for last month, seizing on the data to predict that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic and its economic disruption was in the rear-view mirror. The unemployment rate dropped to a...

One Turkish soldier was killed and two were wounded in the northwestern region of Idlib on Friday in an attack on an armoured ambulance, Turkey’s Defence Ministry said. Turkish forces identified targets in the area and immediately opened fire in retaliation, the ministry statement said....

The United Nations' atomic watchdog agency says Iran has continued to increase its stockpiles of enriched uranium and remains in violation of its deal with world powers. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported the finding Friday in a confidential document distributed to member...

Turkey on Friday distributed food packages to 120 families in northern Syria. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) distributed the aid in six villages of Tal Abyad, cleared of terrorists during Turkey's Operation Peace Spring, the provincial governorate in Turkey's border...

The World Health Organization (WHO) updated its guidance Friday to recommend that governments ask everyone to wear fabric face masks in public areas where there is a risk of transmission of COVID-19 to help reduce the spread of the pandemic disease. In its new guidance, prompted by evidence...

 France demanded Friday that Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, whom Tehran has sentenced to six years in prison, be released immediately, saying her detention was harming trust between the two countries. "One year ago, Fariba Adelkhah was arbitrarily arrested in Iran. It is...

Airbus is ready to sue airlines that refuse to honour contracts to take aircraft, its chief executive was quoted Friday as saying, raising the stakes in a stand-off between some manufacturers and airlines over the coronavirus crisis. The warning came as Airbus prepared to unveil what...

Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday said he expected metals giant Norilsk Nickel to fully restore the environment after an unprecedented Arctic fuel spill, as responders said they had managed to stop the slick from spreading further. A national-level state of emergency was announced...

The US conducted its first air strikes against the Taliban since a rare ceasefire between the insurgents and Afghan forces ended more than a week ago, the US military said Friday. The two assaults took place Thursday and Friday in separate provinces in Afghanistan, spokesman Sonny Leggett...

Lionel Messi has sustained a "minor" thigh injury, but Barcelona remain confident he will be fit for the team's first game back against Mallorca on June 13, the club said Friday. Messi has not trained with the rest of the squad since Tuesday after working separately in the gym on both...