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...
Hundreds of dead animals in Pakistan amid lockdown
Weeks into the shutdown of Pakistan’s largest cities, hundreds of caged cats, dogs and rabbits have been found dead inside pet markets hurriedly shuttered...
Lebanese MPs relocated to a theater amid protests and Coronavirus
Lebanese MPs were sprayed with sanitizer as they arrived for a legislative session on Tuesday that was relocated from the Beirut parliament building to...
Facebook offer grants of $100 mn to help virus-hit news media
Out of the need for reliable information about the crisis, Facebook said Monday it was donating $100 million to support news organizations globally hurting...
Pyramids site emptied of tourists in Egypt
All Egypt's famed archaeological sites and museums from the Egyptian museum in Cairo to the Valley of the Kings in Luxor have been shut...
Turkish banks investigations
Turkish competition officials made surprise visits to several private, state and foreign banks late on Friday to analyse computers as they opened a wide-ranging...
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...
Lebanese military detained five Sudanese citizens near the border with Israel
Hours after the Israeli military announced that it detained five Sudanese citizens on suspicion they were trying to infiltrate the heavily-guarded border, the Lebanese...
Toilet paper panic-buying in Germany amid Virus outbreak
The Coronavirus pandemic has sent panicked shoppers across Europe into a toilet-paper buying frenzy.
Generally speaking, people tend to wildly overestimate their TP needs, as...
Lockdown extends in Jordan
Jordan on Sunday extended a month-long lockdown that has closed schools, universities and government agencies until the end of the month to stem the...
