European Union foreign ministers will weigh later Friday what action the bloc could take should Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu push ahead with plans to annex the West Bank in coming months. The ministers had planned to welcome the formation of a new government and offer EU...

Democratic candidate Joe Biden said that if he wins the presidency he would not use his power to pardon Donald Trump or stop any investigations of Trump and his associates. "It is not something the president is entitled to do, to direct a prosecution or decide to drop a case," Biden said...

The Yemeni army announced Friday that scores of Houthi militia members were killed in clashes in Al-Bayda governorate.  The press office of the Yemeni military said many Houthis were also injured in the fighting. The Houthis have yet to comment on the incidents. Yemen has been...

The UN General Assembly will cast ballots in-person for five new non-permanent Security Council seats, its president said Thursday, effectively ruling out electronic voting despite the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to UN members obtained by AFP, President Tijjani Muhammad-Bande said...

On the Turkish capital's bridges and bus stops, Ankara mayor Mansur Yavas urges wealthier residents to help poorer citizens during the coronavirus pandemic by paying off their debts to grocers. "Kindness is more contagious than disease," the advert proclaims, showing a large black book with...

 A former Syrian detainee has given a new testimony against Germany-based Doctor Alaa Al-Mousa, accusing him of torturing and killing his epileptic brother in front of him in a military security branch.. Mohamed Fajer said Al-Mousa who used enter security chambers to treat...

More than 300,000 people have died from the coronavirus globally, according to data compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University on Thursday. The running tally counted 300,074 deaths, while the number of cases and recoveries stand at 4,405,019 and 1,573,765, respectively. The US is the...

Turkish officials says Kurdish rebels have opened fire and killed two municipality employees who were distributing aid in a district that has been placed under quarantine due to the coronavirus outbreak. A third employee was wounded. The attack occurred Thursday on a road near the district...

Brutal weekly unemployment numbers underscored the coronavirus pandemic's continued ability to destroy jobs in the United States -- 36.5 million in two months -- as President Donald Trump and his allies pushed to reopen the world's largest economy. About 2.98 million people filed fresh...

France's death toll from the coronavirus rose by 351 to 27,425 on Thursday, the health ministry announced, but the number of patients in hospital and in intensive care units continued to drop. Thursday’s tally marks a significant increase from the 83 deaths reported on Wednesday, owing...

 U.S. President Donald Trump further hardened his rhetoric towards China Thursday, saying he no longer wishes to speak with Xi Jinping and warning darkly he might cut ties over the rival superpower's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Tensions have ratcheted up between Washington...

Arab stock markets plunged almost a quarter in value in the first three months of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and the collapse in oil prices, a U.N. agency said Thursday. "The drop in oil prices and the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a 23-percent average loss for major Arab stock...

Nervous residents of China's pandemic epicenter of Wuhan queued up across the city to be tested for the coronavirus Thursday after a new cluster of cases sparked a mass screening campaign. Lines of socially distanced people formed at makeshift testing sites set up under tents in parking...

A Palestinian rammed a car into Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Thursday before being shot dead, the Israeli army said. "An assailant drove at a high speed towards (Israeli) soldiers adjacent to a military post near the community of Negohot, southwest of Hebron," an army...

A record 9.3 million people are now food insecure in Syria as spiralling prices and the coronavirus pandemic compound the damage of a nine-year war, the World Food Programme said Thursday. "Record high food prices & now COVID-19 have pushed families in Syria beyond their limits," the...

Hundreds of people went to streets of southern Daraa province, protesting an imminent offensive on the town of Tafas by regime forces and iran proxies, activists and monitoring groups said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said people have rallied Thursday evening...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  At least three civilians were killed on Thursday by a bomb hidden in a motorbike in the Syrian border region of Ras Al-Ayn, which is controlled by the Turkish army, local council said. The local governing body said the booby-trapped motorbike exploded in Al-Alyia...

A top French official on Thursday said it would be “unacceptable” for the US to be given priority access to a vaccine for the novel coronavirus. Deputy Finance Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher’s comments came a day after the head of French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi suggested the company...

Turkish and Russian military elements performed the 11th joint patrol along a key highway in Idlib, northwestern Syria, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. “Within the framework of TUR-RF Agreement/Protocol, the 11th TUR-RF Combined Land Patrol on M-4 Highway in...

Virtual reality tours have replaced flag-waving rallies as Palestinians facing coronavirus restrictions create digital spaces to lament the loss of their physical homeland in 1948. Cellphone apps and Zoom video chats are among the other online tools Palestinians are using to mark the Nakba,...