U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Mexico has committed to cuts in oil production of 100,000 barrels per day to help contribute to global reductions. At a White House briefing on the coronavirus, Trump said the United States was helping Mexico with the cuts as he did not want...

Apple and Google launched a major joint effort to leverage smartphone technology to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. New software the companies plan to add to phones would make it easier to use Bluetooth wireless technology to track down people for who may have been infected by coronavirus...

Turkey’s confirmed cases of coronavirus increased by 4,747 and 98 people died in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll from the disease to 1,006, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Friday. The total number of recovered cases stood at 2,423, with 281 recoveries in the last 24...

The World Health Organization (WHO) warned countries on Friday to be cautious about lifting restrictions introduced to curb the spread of the new coronavirus and voiced alarm it was taking hold in Africa. The United Nations agency would like to see an easing, but at the same time “lifting...

With an aircraft carrier forced into port and nuclear missile crews hit by COVID-19, the US military wants rivals to understand: don't test us, we have not been weakened. Statement after statement from the Pentagon has sought to deliver that message amid questions this week over whether the...

Kareem Zukari has endured a lot during the nine years of Syria’s war. There have been missiles and bullets, loved ones killed, and the fear of being conscripted into the army or tortured in Bashar al-Assad’s prisons. But no matter how bad things got, there was always food. “Now there is...

Lebanon's security forces said Friday they had made their largest cannabis seizure in history last month, unearthing 25 tonnes of the drug intended for Africa. The Mediterranean country on March 15 announced a lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19, which has now officially infected 609...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The siege imposed by regime on southern Sanamayn town has entered the sixth week amid deteriorating living and health conditions. Daraa24, local news site, said the regime army has blocked the entry of aid and basic staples into the key town in Daraa province, such a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime media outlets said Friday at least 30 people were released from a quarantine center in Homs city after testing negative for the novel Coronavirus. About 70 more people are still in the quarantine center but they are not infected, according to Al-Khabar TV....

U.S. President Donald Trump held a second straight day of telephone conversations with Russia's president focused on oil and the international fight against the novel coronavirus, the White House said Friday. "President Trump and President Putin discussed the latest efforts to combat the...

Morocco has started manufacturing its own ventilators with oxygen masks, with 500 expected to be ready by mid-April to help meet demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Industry Ministry said. The North African kingdom has confirmed 1,431 cases of the novel coronavirus, including 105...

President Donald Trump is claiming without evidence that expanding mail-in voting will increase voter fraud. But several GOP state officials are forging ahead to do just that, undermining one of Trump’s arguments about how elections should be conducted amid the coronavirus outbreak. While...

Six directors of Spanish La Liga champions Barcelona have quit in the latest turmoil within the club hierarchy that fans and players including Lionel Messi are increasingly frustrated at. The board members' protest deepened chaos at the world's richest club, hit by plunging revenues from...

Christians are commemorating Jesus' crucifixion without the solemn church services or emotional processions of past years, marking Good Friday in a world locked down by the coronavirus pandemic. The chanting of a small group of clerics inside Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher echoed...

Criminal organizations in Italy are distributing food and ordering interest-free lending to the needy to try to extend their influence, Italian anti-mafia author Roberto Saviano has warned. Italy's mafia groups are also poised to snatch up struggling businesses as the country -- which is in...

Iran's total death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak rose to 4,232 Friday with 122 lives lost in the past 24 hours, according to a health ministry spokesman. The total number of people diagnosed with the disease increased by 1,972 in the past 24 hours to a total of 68,192, the spokesman,...

The Israeli ImageSat International on Thursday published satellite images revealing massive damage in Shayrat airfield in central Homs province, following the Israeli airstrikes on March 31. ImageSat International images showed 6-7 hits on the runway and access routes and additional two...

Hundreds of millions of people around the world will spend the Easter holiday at home as lockdown measures intensify to combat the coronavirus, a pandemic with a global death toll rapidly approaching 100,000. Governments have forced businesses to close and limited the movement of half the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Egyptian authorities will deport a Syrian woman due to 7-year-old Facebook posts criticizing the military coup, media outlets said Thursday.  The Egyptian Interior Minister Mohamed Tawfiq issued a decision stating that Heyam Sobhi Al-Badi is to be deported outside...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was resting in hospital Friday as he recovered from COVID-19 while Britons were told to avoid the temptation of spring sunshine during the Easter break with the coronavirus outbreak approaching a peak. The flamboyant 55-year-old leader's visible decline shook...