UEFA has lifted a ban on the live screening of Premier League games kicking off at 3:00 pm in England and Scotland for the rest of the season. The blackout has long been in place to protect attendances at matches. The move by European football's governing body is seen a step...

Only a few weeks ago, Polish truckers were kings of the road in Europe. Now, they are in despair. If the coronavirus crisis drags on, Poland's road transport industry will be done for. "If our current financial situation continues, we'll go bankrupt in two months unless the government...

The shiny new robots gently check the pulses of highly infectious patients on life support in the Italian epicentre of COVID-19. The doctors and nurses love them because they also help save their own lives. Italians have seen the world around them turn unrecognisable from the...

When staff take a break to applaud at a sprawling field hospital set up at Madrid's conference centre to treat people with coronavirus, it means a patient has been discharged. Located just a short drive from Madrid's airport, the Ifema conference centre normally hosts car shows, art...

Poaching and habitat loss have decimated Indonesia's orangutan population, but now coronavirus has emerged as another potential deadly threat to the critically endangered species. While there have been no confirmed cases of transmission from humans to the fuzzy-haired apes, they share...

When Spain's first case of coronavirus was recorded on Jan. 31 - a German tourist in La Gomera, one of the remote Canary Islands - there seemed little cause for concern. "We believe that Spain will have, at most, not more than a few diagnosed cases," Fernando Simon, the country's health...

Saudi Arabia sharply criticized Russia Saturday over what it described as Moscow blaming the kingdom for the collapse in global energy prices, showing the tensions ahead of an emergency meeting of OPEC and other oil producers. Oil prices sharply fell after the so-called OPEC+ group of...

Before New Zealand began its four-week lockdown to fight the coronavirus, a reporter asked Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern what would happen if an earthquake struck while everybody was sequestered in their homes. "Why on earth would your mind go there?" Ardern quipped back. Every...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local media outlet on Saturday has reported two confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the eastern suburbs of Damascus. Ghouta Media Center said the two infections were confirmed in the town of Saqba, making the eastern enclave of the capital as an epicenter after...

 Hussam Qaterji, the corrupt parliament member is one of Bashar al-Assad's sincere businessmen who was subjected to European sanctions in January 2019, for his role in providing oil derivatives and wheat for the Islamic State (ISIS) and the Syrian regime....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has arrested seven Bangladeshis along with an Ivory Coast woman and her child in the central province of Hama, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. The migrants entered Syria illegally from Lebanon two months ago as they were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four children from the same family have lost their lives Friday when their tent caught fire in a refugee camp in northeastern Hasakah province, Kurdish news sites reported. Three more family members were hurt in the Nowruz camp fire near the city of al-Malikiyah....

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday Russia was ready for deep oil production cuts with the United States and OPEC, but firmly put the blame for the collapse in oil prices on OPEC’s de facto leader Saudi Arabia. Putin, speaking in a televised video conference with Russian government...

A United Nations rights official on Friday voiced concern over prisoners after reports of unrest in facilities prompted by worries over a coronavirus outbreak in countries including Iran, one of the worst-hit in the world. With the end of New Year holidays in Iran, state television...

A British Muslim nurse died of coronavirus after contracting the deadly disease whilst caring for infected patients.  Tributes poured in for Areema Nasreen, 36, after she became the UK's youngest health worker to die from the illness.  The married mum of three was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Landmines killed three people, including a US-backed fighter, in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, local activists said Friday. A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces was killed and others wounded in a landmind explosion in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor...

Italy on Friday reported 766 more deaths from the novel coronavirus, bringing the total number of fatalities to 14,681, still the highest in the world, but apparently confirming signs of a slowdown.  The continued slowdown in the rise of infections – down from the double-digit...

It would be a “mistake” for the United States to stop masks badly needed by health care professionals from coming into Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. Trudeau was reacting to the Trump administration order to 3M to stop exporting the essential supplies to Canada. He...

The WHO and IMF chiefs insisted Friday that saving lives was a "prerequisite" to saving livelihoods in the coronavirus pandemic -- a crisis they called "one of humanity's darkest hours". World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and International Monetary Fund...

Latest figures which show the spread of the coronavirus is slowing in Germany are a cause for "hope", Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday, but warned that it was too early to relax restrictions on public life. Germany has shut schools, banned public gatherings of more than two and imposed...