Lionel Messi confirmed Monday that Barcelona's players will take a 70 per cent pay cut and make financial contributions to ensure the club's other employees are paid in full during the state of alarm in Spain. In a lengthy message posted on his Instagram account, Messi also took another...

Collapsing oil prices are costing some OPEC members not only lost revenue when they most need it to tackle the coronavirus crisis, but also market share they may never recoup. OPEC producers such as Nigeria, Angola, Algeria and Venezuela cannot compete with the lower costs of erstwhile...

Saudi Arabia will finance treatment for anyone infected with the coronavirus in the country, the health minister said Monday, while the agriculture ministry took steps to boost wheat and livestock supplies amid global fears of a food shortage. The kingdom has registered eight deaths among...

A painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh was stolen in an overnight smash-and-grab raid on a museum that was closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, police and the museum said Monday. The Singer Laren museum east of Amsterdam said that “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring...

 Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are spending tens of billions to prop up their economies during the coronavirus crisis and oil price slump but the scaling back of state projects is blunting the impact. The pain felt by the tourism, retail, hospitality and logistics sectors...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen carried out several air strikes on Monday on the capital Sanaa, witnesses said. A number of sensitive sites including the presidential palace compound, a military school and an air base close to Sanaa airport were hit, and loud...

Jordanian authorities Monday started to take home about 5,000 people quarantined in hotels to guard against the spread of coronavirus since their return to the country two weeks ago. An AFP photographer said soldiers greeted the evacuees with flowers as they emerged from the luxury hotels...

Kurdish-led forces in Syria put down riots by Islamic State militants in a prison in the country's northeast Monday, hours after the extremists knocked down doors and dug holes in walls between cells, a Syrian Kurdish spokesman said. Kino Gabriel, a spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian...

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin asked regional governors to consider introducing a partial lockdown to halt the spread of coronavirus after Russia Monday recorded its biggest one-day rise in cases for the sixth day in a row. Russia's official nationwide tally of coronavirus cases...

Police in western India fired tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers defying a three-week lockdown against the coronavirus that has left hundreds of thousands of poor without jobs and hungry, authorities said Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the country's...

Iran's official coronavirus death toll reached 2,757 Monday and the number of infections crossed 40,000, as President Hassan Rouhani's political opponents slammed his response to the outbreak. The Islamic republic is one of the countries worst hit by the virus, which originated in China....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people have been killed in separate gunmen attacks in southern Daraa province, local activists said Monday. Most of the attacks have been targeting former rebel fighters.   Last Thursday, two former commanders were killed by unknown...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese authorities have imposed complete isolation on refugee camps and a curfew on those residing in Lebanese cities, saying such precautionary measures would halt the Coronavirus spread while rights advocates see it as a clear discriminatory practice. Samir...

Inmates at a prison in Iran staged a riot on Sunday night over fears of a coronavirus outbreak at the facility, local media reported. According to Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), the protest broke out at 10 p.m. (1730GMT) in two sections of Adel Abad Prison in Iran’s south-central...

 An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tested positive for coronavirus, officials said Monday, but it was not immediately clear if the 70-year-old leader had been exposed or his work affected. "We will take action in accordance with Health Ministry directives," an...

The Federal Reserve has offered more than $3 trillion in loans and asset purchases in recent weeks to stop the U.S. financial system from seizing up, but it has not yet directly helped large swaths of the real economy: companies, municipalities and other borrowers with less than perfect credit....

For Saad Malik, losing his father to the novel coronavirus was only the beginning of his nightmare. For over a week, cemeteries across Iraq refused to allow the elderly man's burial. Fearing the respiratory illness could somehow spread from the corpses to nearby population centres, Iraqi...

When Nima Amraa returned to the Gaza Strip from neighboring Egypt earlier this month, she was surprised to learn she was being placed in a makeshift quarantine center set up by the ruling Hamas group. But her initial jitters turned to fear when two fellow travelers in another facility...

Some Shi’ite pilgrims returning to Iraq from Syria have tested positive for coronavirus, raising concern that such pilgrim travel could be a source for a larger spread of the disease around the country, a senior Iraqi official and health officials said on Sunday.  So far, Iraq has...

Prisoners at a Syrian jail run by Kurdish forces holding suspected ISIS (Daesh) members rioted and some escaped on Sunday, said Kurdish sources and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. A senior member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) running Ghouiran prison in the...