Hospitals shut, villages isolated in Egypt to slow virus
A Cairo hospital was closed for sterilization late Saturday after two COVID-19 cases were confirmed.
He said no date was yet set for re-opening the...
In taking economic war to Islamic State, U.S. developing new tools
Since last month, U.S. warplanes have struck Islamic State's oil infrastructure in Syria in a stepped-up campaign of economic warfare that the United States...
President Putin 'probably' approved Litvinenko murder
The murder of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 in the UK was "probably" approved by President Vladimir Putin, an inquiry has found.
Mr Putin...
Saudi 2016 budget marks end of era for lavish Gulf subsidies
An austere state budget released by Saudi Arabia this week is likely to mark the end of an era for the Gulf's lavish cradle-to-grave...
Poor countries increasingly targeted by tobacco marketing
Faced with falling sales in richer nations, the tobacco industry has increasingly marketed their product in the developing world, where restrictions on promoting smoking...
As U.S. braces for Syrian refugees, mental health services lag
More than 20 years after Saddam Hussein's soldiers in Iraq killed his brother in front of him, Ali Alghazally still suffers from night terrors...
Fears of a “second Coronavirus wave” in Iran
As Iran marked the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a day later than much of the Muslim world, another 76 fatalities...
More than 500 children killed since start of Yemen conflict: UN
More than 500 children have been killed since the upsurge in violence in Yemen in March, while some 1.7 million youths are at risk...
9-year Syria trauma, war crimes and suffering
UN investigators are determined to continue documenting violations and hope that one day justice will be served after nine years of chronicling war crimes...
Family mourns Nigerian pilgrim who fled Boko Haram but died in Haj crush
Three years after his family fled their northeastern Nigerian home to escape threats from Boko Haram militants, Mudasir Gambo must have thought his luck...
