Libyan officials Wednesday allowed 51 migrants to disembark in the capital after spending hours on a coast guard vessel off Tripoli, the U.N. migration agency said. The U.N. mission in Libya, meanwhile, voiced concerns about the escalation of fighting between rival forces over Tripoli in...

Standing in colorful hula hoops carefully spaced to illustrate social distancing, young children in a camp in war-torn Syria give an enthusiastic welcome to a puppet show staged to teach them about the coronavirus. Volunteers visited the camp for displaced Syrians in the northwestern town...

People infected with the new coronavirus may start spreading the virus several days before they have any noticeable symptoms, according to a new modelling study published Wednesday. The study comes as nations have broadened restrictions aimed at curbing the epidemic, amid concerns over...

With the global economy plunged into the worst recession in a century, the Group of 20 nations on Wednesday announced a one-year debt standstill for the world's poorest nations as they struggle to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. The G20, which brings together the world's largest...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-An ISIS homemade landmine has killed two children of the same family in central Homs province, regime-run news agency said. SANA reported that the landmine is a remnant of Islamic State's weapons in the eastern countryside of Homs.   According to the Human...

Jordan's Prime Minister Omar al Razzaz said Wednesday the government would soon ease a tight lockdown imposed to stem the spread of coronavirus by allowing more businesses and industries to return to work. However, it will not yet lift a curfew imposed nearly a month ago that restricts the...

A team of robot-designing girls in Afghanistan is trying to build a low-cost medical ventilator from car parts, as health authorities look to boost critical-care capabilities for coronavirus patients in the impoverished country. If the teenagers succeed and can get government approval for...

Iran said Wednesday the world is learning that the United States "kills people", after President Donald Trump suspended U.S. funding for the World Health Organization amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump has accused the U.N. body of covering up the seriousness of the COVID-19 outbreak in...

As the EU's economy reels from virus lockdowns, Brussels unveiled a proposed roadmap Wednesday to ease restrictions on life and businesses, relying in large part on smartphone tracking apps. That technology aims to spot localized COVID-19 outbreaks in real-time. Already many individual...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and parliament speaker Benny Gantz faced a midnight deadline Wednesday to form a unity government or risk prolonging the country's unprecedented political crisis. The right-wing premier Netanyahu and centrist Gantz, Israel's former army chief, have...

In a hospital in the Yemeni city of Taiz, medics scarred by five years of war are marshaling scant resources to face a new enemy. The coronavirus epidemic has yet to make clear inroads in Yemen, with the little testing that has been done uncovering just one confirmed case. But aid groups...

Greece transferred a dozen unaccompanied children from overcrowded migrant camps to Luxembourg Wednesday, the first of more than 1,000 relocations that are being expedited amid concerns over the impact of coronavirus on vulnerable groups. Another group of 50 children is expected to fly from...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has approved an additional package of measures to help the private sector deal with the economic impact of the coronavirus, state news agency (SPA) reported Wednesday. The package aims to provide liquidity to the private sector and will include exemptions, relief...

An Israeli drone targeted a car belonging to Hezbollah on the Syrian side of the Syria-Lebanon border at the Masnaa crossing

Russia and Turkey held a fourth joint patrol in northern Idlib region, the RIA news agency cited the Russian Reconciliation Centre for Syria as saying on Wednesday. The patrol covered the M4 highway which links the cities of Aleppo and Latakia, and is part of the two countries’ efforts...

Some 74 million people in the water-scarce Arab region are at greater risk of catching the novel coronavirus because they lack a sink or soap at home, the United Nations said Wednesday. This includes 31 million people in Sudan, more than 14 million in war-torn Yemen and 9.9 million in...

German authorities say police have arrested four suspected members of the Daesh group alleged to be planning an attack on American military facilities. Federal prosecutors said the suspects were arrested by tactical police units early Wednesday at various locations in the western state of...

With 94 new deaths reported in Iran, the death toll from the new coronavirus rose to 4,777, state media said on Wednesday. The Iranian state TV reported Kianoush Jahanpour, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, as saying that 1,512 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24...

A Syrian activist, who witnessed regime’s chemical attacks on Hama province, said hope was last to hold the Assad regime accountable for those attacks in Ltamenah town in March 2017. Mahmud Hamawi, who has archived the attacks of the Bashar al-Assad regime and his allies since the beginning...

Apple has launched a new website that shows with striking graphs how the coronavirus pandemic has slammed the brakes on life around the world. The tool visualises the movement of people in dozens of major cities and countries around the world based on the number of requests made for...