China is swiftly building a 1,000-bed hospital dedicated to patients infected with a new virus that has killed 26 people, sickened hundreds and prompted unprecedented lockdowns of cities during the country's most important holiday. On the eve of the Lunar New Year, transportation was...

They are circling each other like wary boxers, with taunts on Twitter, snarky asides and belittling descriptions. They rose to prominence in Manhattan on parallel tracks, amassed wealth real and perceived and displayed a penchant for putting their names on things. That's where the...

Democrats argued that President Donald Trump sought a phony investigation of a political rival and pursued a discredited conspiracy theory about Ukraine, while restless senators played with a new toy Thursday during Trump's impeachment trial. Highlights of Thursday's session , which...

Lebanon and Japan have about 40 days to decide whether ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will be extradited to Japan or stand trial in Lebanon, a judicial source and a source close to Ghosn said Thursday, following his escape from Japan last month. Ghosn fled to Lebanon, his childhood home,...

The United States has seen no uptick in Daesh (ISIS) activity in Syria and Iraq, U.S. special representative for Syria James Jeffrey said Thursday, weeks after a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian military commander Qassem Suleimani in Baghdad. Jeffrey told reporters that U.S.-led coalition...

Iraq has approved contracts in a fifth bid round for exploration contracts the east of the country, the government said in a statement Thursday. The exploration deals in Diyala province are to develop fields that are expected to produce 750 million cubic feet of natural gas within 36...

The United States imposed Iran-related sanctions Thursday on two individuals and six companies, including four firms tied to the National Iranian Oil Company. Tensions between Iran and the United States have ratcheted up since 2018, most recently over an U.S. attack that killed a top...

Queen Elizabeth II gave her formal assent Thursday for Britain to end its decades-long involvement in the European Union and seek a more independent but uncertain future at the end of the month. With the head of state's ceremonial approval of the withdrawal legislation, Britain can finally...

French lawyers are keeping up the pressure against the French government’s proposed overhaul to the pension system. Lawyers in the impoverished Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis have been striking since January 6 – postponing all court hearings despite the possible effects on some of their...

Libya's neighbours came together Thursday in Algiers as part of international efforts to find a political settlement to a crisis that threatens regional stability. The meeting, organised at Algeria's initiative, began mid-morning with statements from each of the participants and continued...

Around 36,000 more civilians have fled their homes falling inside the Idlib de-escalation zone in Syria over the last two days and the number of displaced civilians reached 450,000 since November 2019 due to attacks of the regime and its allies. According to Syria's Response Coordination...

Up to 40 Syrian soldiers have been killed in an assault by hundreds of militants in north-western Syria, according to Russia's defence ministry. The ministry, which supports Syria's regime, said there were several attacks in which the militants seized two settlements in Idlib province....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five civilians, including three children, were killed Thursday in fresh regime airstrikes on northern Idlib province as regime forces suffer setbacks and heavy losses. According to Zaman al-Wasl reporter, the victims were from the same family as regime strikes hit...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday proposed holding a summit between the leaders of Russia, China, the United States, France and Britain in 2020 to discuss the conflict in Libya and other global problems. Putin, who was speaking during a trip to Israel, said Moscow was ready for a...

Mayors of three Greek islands bearing the brunt of intensely overcrowded refugee and migrant camps demanded the transfer of thousands to the country’s mainland during a meeting with the new migration minister in Athens on Thursday. During a second day of protests over the plight of the...

Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum told visiting envoys from other countries neighboring Libya on Thursday that he hoped their meeting would strengthen a fragile truce in the country and help avert more foreign influence there. “Libya’s neighbors have the responsibility to facilitate...

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Iran on Thursday as “the most anti-Semitic regime on the planet”, telling world leaders at a Holocaust memorial event that Israel would always defend itself against those seeking to destroy it. Israel has hailed the World Holocaust...

The death toll from a violent storm which has wrought havoc on huge swathes of Spain's eastern and southern coastline rose to nine on Thursday as rescuers pressed the hunt for at least five missing people. The latest death was that of a man whose body was found in a flooded river near...

Pakistan's army on Thursday said it had successfully tested a ballistic missile Ghaznavi amid heightened tensions with arch-rival India. Named after the 11th-century Afghan king, the missile is capable of delivering multiple types of warheads up to a range of 290 kilometers, according to a...

Removing renegade commander Khalifa Haftar is a must for democracy process and holding elections in Libya, a prominent official said. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Khalid al-Mishri, chairman of the Libyan High Council of State, stressed the need to end the current interim period and...