The incoming Biden administration appears to be floundering over a recent trade deal between the EU and China, known as the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI)...

Boris Johnson tonight plunged the country into a third national lockdown ordering everyone to work from home if they can...

Saudi Arabia has opened air, land and sea borders and lifted a blockade on neighboring Qatar in advance of the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Al-Ula, at which the emir of Qatar is expected to be a participant...

Lawyers in Lebanon went on strike Monday in protest to an assault on a colleague who was arrested and beaten by security forces...

US President Donald Trump repeated his claim that the Nov. 3 presidential election was rigged as he spoke during a rally in Georgia a day before the southern state's Senate runoff...

Qatar’s ruler will attend the 41st Gulf Cooperation Council summit starting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, his first appearance at the meeting since 2017...

Iran on Monday seized a South Korean-flagged oil tanker in the crucial Strait of Hormuz, further escalating tensions in the Middle East between Tehran and the West...

Vietnam will receive at least 30 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca with Oxford University this year, a senior health official said on Monday...

The United States, Britain and some European Union states have rejected Venezuela’s appeal to unfreeze its sanctioned assets in order to purchase the much-needed coronavirus vaccine, the nation’s President Nicolas Maduro has unveiled...

Israel announced that two million people will have received a two-dose Covid-19 vaccination by the end of January, a pace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts is the world's fastest...

Over the past two decades, a new word has entered universities, research labs, and think-tanks: Anthropocene...

A British judge has rejected the United States' request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges, saying it would be "oppressive" because of his mental health...

The Giza Security Directorate on Sunday received notification that a husband killed his wife inside a school in Bolaq Al-Dakrour after stabbing her with a knife...

South Korea's agricultural ministry said Monday it is looking into yet another suspected case of highly pathogenic bird flu linked to farms amid the prolonged fight against the disease...

The United States has reversed a decision to bring an aircraft carrier home from the Persian Gulf days after ordering the vessel out of the Middle East, saying the decision was due to "recent threats" from Iranian officials...

UAE intelligence agencies have arrested an Iranian squad in Dubai and Abu Dhabi on suspicion of plotting to carry out attacks against Israeli citizens...

As the country battles with a harsh second wave, four patients with coronavirus died in Egypt on Saturday in the intensive care unit of Al-Husseineya Central Hospital in the country’s Sharqia Governorate due to an alleged lack of oxygen supplies...

Amid record coronavirus cases, including a more contagious variant strain, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday restrictions are "probably about to get tougher" though the kingdom plans to administer the Oxford AstraZeneca for t...

After a month-long hiatus, trilateral negotiations between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt resumed Sunday on the filling and operations of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile River...

Workers have threatened to protest a decision by a cash-strapped UN agency to cut back on wages. A spokeswoman for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Tamara Al-Rifai said that about 80 percent of employe...