Germany registered on Sunday for the first time more fully recovered coronavirus patients than people still infected with the virus, according to the country’s disease control agency. The Robert Koch Institute reported 60,200 recoveries as of Sunday, compared to 57,606 current COVID-19...

Republican U.S. senators from oil states who recently introduced legislation to remove American troops from Saudi Arabia said Saturday they had spoken with three officials from the kingdom and urged them to take concrete action to cut crude output. Saudi Arabia and Russia were close to...

Former Liverpool player and manager Kenny Dalglish, who tested positive for the coronavirus, has been released from hospital, British media reported Sunday. Liverpool said Friday that Dalglish, 69, was admitted to hospital for an infection. He required intravenous antibiotics but was...

Motor racing great Stirling Moss has died aged 90 following a long illness, the British sporting icon's wife announced Sunday. "It was one lap too many," Susie Moss told Britain's Press Association. "He just closed his eyes." Tributes flooded in from the world of motorsport and...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday the country had won a legal "victory" over $1.6 billion of its assets that had long been frozen on a US request in Luxembourg. Tehran and Washington have long been arch enemies and tensions have risen sharply since President Donald Trump in 2018...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from hospital, a week after being admitted due to "persistent" Covid-19 symptoms, a Downing Street spokesman said Sunday. "The PM has been discharged from hospital to continue his recovery, at Chequers," he said. Chequers is the official...

The interconnected conflicts raging across the Middle East today have amounted to a dreadful human catastrophe with spiraling global consequence. One of their lesser effects has been to deflate the reputations of Western main battle tanks mistakenly thought to be night-invulnerable in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- With the help of protective suits, masks and gloves, and the most precautionary measures, the 13-year-old Libyan child, Ismail Abdul Wahab, who hails from Brixton State, south of London, was buried.  Abdul Wahab was one the youngest people to die of Coronavirus...

A handful of priests celebrated Easter on Sunday at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built on the site where Christians believe Jesus was crucified and resurrected. In the heart of Jerusalem's Old City, the church -- which had not been closed over Easter for at least a century -- has been...

Algeria faces economic and social turmoil if crude prices continue to collapse, experts have warned, with the oil-dependent country reeling from a year of popular protests, political turmoil and now, coronavirus. The North African country is an example of how hydrocarbon economies are...

The Taliban announced Sunday it will be releasing 20 Afghan government prisoners the group has been holding, in the first phase of its commitment under its historic peace deal with the United States. The deal calls for the government to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners in exchange for 1,000...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said Libyan pilots from Khalifa Haftar's forces had arrived in Damascus to follow a training by the Syrian Air Force on the Russian Mi-25 attack helicopters. The pilots will be stationed in the Air Force 64th Brigade at the Beli Military...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The military intelligence Division has arrested a Syrian woman near Damascus over claims she made phone calls with regime opponents seven years ago, local media outlet said Saturday. The regime security claimed that the detained women had links with rebel...

The number of deaths from the novel coronavirus in the U.S. crossed the 20,000 mark early Sunday, according to data by Johns Hopkins University. The university's running tally counted 20,608 deaths and 529,951 cases as the U.S. struggles to curb the outbreak. The U.S. leads the world in...

A small van zips through the streets of Casablanca to deliver food to single mothers, as economic paralysis caused by the coronavirus crisis puts pressure on Morocco's poor. "We have to be quick," says Bouchra, a coordinator from NGO INSAF who is supervising the day's rounds. The...

"Is it halal to buy shares in Tesla?" a young Muslim would-be investor asks on Twitter. Islamic finance -- an amalgamation of Sharia law and modern banking -- has become a $2 trillion business over the past two decades, covering everything from bonds to buying cars. But with complex...

It's a grim truth that times are good for the coffin business when they're bad for people, and the coronavirus pandemic is no exception. At a factory belonging to Europe's largest coffin maker, OGF, in eastern France, workers are doing overtime to meet demand from families parting with...

Liver patient Shahjahan's family feared the worst when a New Delhi public hospital told her to leave because her bed was needed in a coronavirus unit. The 40-year-old mother had been on a ventilator with an acute infection for almost two weeks when she left Lok Nayak hospital on Tuesday...

 Britain said Sunday it was pledging 200 million pounds ($248 million) to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and charities to help slow the spread of the coronavirus in vulnerable countries and so help prevent a second wave of infections. More than 1.6 million people are reported to...

 Saudi Arabia's King Salman approved an extension of the kingdom's curfew until further notice due to the rate at which the coronavirus is currently spreading, the state news agency (SPA) reported early Sunday. The Saudi king has previously ordered a curfew that took effect on March...