Brazil's new super-variant of coronavirus did not deter crowds of sunbathers from packing out beaches today despite the infection ripping though the Amazon where locals desperately wait for dwindling oxygen supplies...

A search for survivors was underway Friday in Indonesia after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit the country's Sulawesi Island...

Even though it was a virtual session, one could sense the emotional atmosphere during a meeting of the Security Council on Thursday as Martin Griffiths, the UN special envoy for Yemen, briefed members about the “harrowing note” on which 2020 had ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday got the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Arriving at Ankara City Hospital, Erdogan received the first dose of China's CoronaVac vaccine...

At least four people are dead and more than 600 others injured after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Majene City in Indonesia’s West Sulawesi province in the early hours of Friday, according to the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD)...

The administration of US President-elect Joe Biden has asked Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to renew legitimacy and hold general elections, Israel’s Channel 20 reported...

According to regional experts, Tel-Aviv wants to limit Iran’s efficiency in the region by attacking territories in Syria...

A leading figure in the Palestinian Fatah movement thanked Turkey for efforts to end political division in the country...

A World Health Organization (WHO) team of international experts arrived in China on Thursday for an investigation aimed at ascertaining the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Initial studies of data from Israel's vaccination drive suggest that the first dose of the Pfizer jab curbs coronavirus infections by up to 50 percent after 14 days...

South Korea's Supreme Court upheld the 20-year prison sentence of former President Park Geun-hye on Thursday, ending the legal battles over corruption and abuse of power charges that saw the 68-year-old impeached and then convicted in ...

Belgian rioters attacked the king's car in violent unrest in Brussels over the death of a black man in police custody who was arrested for breaking the coronavirus curfew...

The government announced that there will be no more curfew on Fridays as per a set of decisions announced on Wednesday to gradually ease the COVID-19 containment measures...

The Syrian government has condemned new Israeli airstrikes on Syrian territory, calling on the United Nations Security Council to take immediate and decisive measures to prevent the repetition of such attacks...

More than 20,000 National Guard members are expected to arrive in Washington, D.C. next week for US President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, DC Police Chief Robert Contee said Wednesday...

The Jordanian government of Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh on Wednesday won a vote of confidence in the House of Representatives, the country’s lower house, with the support of 88 of 130 MPs...

Repression in China has "deepened severely" in recent years, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday, calling it "the darkest period for human rights" since the 1989 massacre that ended the anti-government protests in Tiananmen Square...

The US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump on a single article of incitement of insurrection, making him the first president in US history to be impeached twice...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been accused of cynically courting the Arab vote to ensure his own political survival...

Lebanon’s caretaker health minister Hamad Hasan was admitted to hospital the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on Wednesday evening...