The United States on Tuesday called on Venezuela's Juan Guaido to renounce his claim to the presidency at least temporarily as it recalibrated its strategy to oust leader Nicolas Maduro. The shift came after more than a year of faltering US-led efforts to oust the leftist Maduro and as...

Saudi Aramco has asked key energy service companies to support the state oil giant’s plans to produce at its maximum oil output capacity of 12 million barrels per day “starting April 1 and for the foreseeable future”, a Saudi oil industry source told Reuters on Tuesday. Aramco has also told...

Afghan authorities have quarantined 16 health workers, including six doctors, officials said on Tuesday, as Afghans fleeing hard-hit Iran have helped spread the coronavirus in the western border province of Herat. Afghanistan, already battling a shortage of food and medicines amid a Taliban...

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied on Tuesday ordered the release on 1,420 prisoners in an amnesty to combat the spread of the coronavirus in prisons, a presidency statement said. Tunisia has declared a general lockdown to slow infection rates, and has confirmed 574 cases of the coronavirus and...

Despite many attempts at negotiations, the Syrian war – a conflict with a complicated and constantly changing cast of characters that has killed as many as 585,000 people and displaced over half of Syria’s prewar population – has proved extremely difficult to resolve. As the war grinds on,...

Cancelling Wimbledon is the only realistic option open to organisers as they grapple with the chaos caused by the coronavirus, says two-time Grand Slam men's doubles champion Jamie Murray. Tennis is at a standstill until June 7, with the entire European clay-court season already wiped out...

From medical workers struggling to care for the rising tide of COVID-19 patients to the billions of people told to stay home to slow the pandemic, everyone is waiting for one thing: a vaccine. There is no known treatment for the new coronavirus that emerged in China late last year and has...

Rights campaigners are urging the Russian government to consider releasing some pre-trial detainees and prisoners held in the country's packed jails, warning of the "devastating consequences" of the coronavirus pandemic. More than half a million people are held in Russia's notoriously...

First-hand experience is a critical factor in the authority of official war art. Syrian artist Nour Zantah has plenty. Born in Homs in 1989, she watched the violation of her country in the opening months of the civil war. The turning point was when protesters in her home city swarmed around...

The UN on Tuesday dispatched a total of 67 truckloads of humanitarian aid to Idlib, a northwestern Syrian province where millions of people are in desperate need of assistance. Trucks entered the city through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey's southern Hatay province, bordering Idlib....

France has seen spiking numbers both in fatalities and infections, but the country continues to wage its own private war against coronavirus epidemic. Tuesday marks the second wave of confinement in France, a measure President Emmanuel Macron put in place on March 17 to curb the spread of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Sewing workshops in northern Syria have begun to make medical masks to provide the health facilities in the de-facto stricken areas due to regime offensive and now due to the killer Coronavirus. Ahmed Abdul Rahman, an owner of a sewing workshop in Idlib province,...

With a record 849 deaths in one day, coronavirus has now killed a total of 8,189 people in Spain, according to data released by the Spanish Health Ministry on Tuesday. In total, 49,243 people have been hospitalized due to COVID-19 in Spain and nearly 20,000 people have recovered. The...

Italy marked a minute of silence and flew flags at half mast Tuesday to mourn the 11,591 people who have died from the coronavirus pandemic that has drastically altered life in the Mediterranean country. The nation of 60 million people has recorded nearly a third of all fatalities caused by...

Abdul-Halim Khaddam, a former Syrian vice president who became a prominent opponent of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule after fleeing to Paris in 2005, died on Tuesday in France, Salah Ayach, a Syrian exile who was close to him, said. He was 88. Khaddam died at 5 a.m. (0300 GMT) of a heart...

 Shortages of protective health gear in India are forcing some doctors to use raincoats and motorbike helmets while fighting the coronavirus, exposing the weak state of the public health system ahead of an anticipated surge in COVID-19 cases. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government...

 Dubai will inject funding into state-owned Emirates, one of the world's biggest long-haul carriers, the crown prince said Tuesday, as the government joined others in offering financial aid to airlines. Several states have stepped in to help airlines hammered by the coronavirus...

European nations have delivered medical goods to Iran in the first transaction under the Instex mechanism set up to evade American sanctions on Tehran, the German foreign ministry said Tuesday. "France, Germany and the United Kingdom confirm that Instex has successfully concluded its first...

Middle-aged people, and not just the elderly, have a dramatically higher risk of dying or developing serious illness from COVID-19, new research from Britain showed Tuesday. The findings came in a new comprehensive analysis of virus cases in mainland China. Researchers from Britain...

The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Germany has risen to 61,913 and 583 people have died of the disease, statistics from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Tuesday. Cases rose by 4,615 compared with the previous day while the death toll climbed...