Restricted export of medical devices in Turkey
Turkey’s trade minister, Ruhsar Pekcan, said on Twitter Thursday that the export of equipment including ventilators, intubation devices and intensive care monitors would be...
U.S. shale investors still waiting on payoff from oil boom
U.S. oil production has topped 10 million barrels per day, approaching a record set in 1970, but many investors in the companies driving the...
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...
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...
Arab and Jewish doctors together on frontline of virus fight
Jewish and Arab doctors have worked side by side on the frontlines of the novel Coronavirus fight.
The Arab minority in Jerusalem make up around...
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...
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...
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...
