Israelis are beginning to enter post-COVID life thanks to their widespread vaccination, while Palestinians in the West Bank are facing renewed lockdown measures with no meaningful mass vaccination effort underway...

Libyan lawmakers have confirmed a newly appointed government, in the hope it will help unify the divided, war-wrecked North African country, and shepherd it through to elections at the end of the year...

Cambodia has confirmed its first death since the pandemic began more than a year ago as it battles a new local outbreak that has infected hundreds of people...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was forced to cancel a planned whirlwind visit to the United Arab Emirates Thursday, Israeli officials said, because Jordan delayed approving his flight path over the Hashemite kingdom...

The European Union agency deployed at the Greek border is failing to hold itself accountable for abuses, NGOs say...

A court in Saudi Arabia has denied the appeal by one of the kingdom's most prominent political activists that would have allowed her to travel freely, her supporters said, weeks after her release from prison...

At least eight people have been killed as anti-coup protesters take to the streets in several parts of Myanmar, defying an increasingly brutal crackdown by security forces who Amnesty International accused of using battlefield tactics and weapons...

Brazil yesterday recorded more than 2,000 Covid-19 deaths, its worst single-day toll, as the country's hospitals have been over-run by the world's worst infection-rate...

Major concerns were raised about the quality of early batches of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, leaked documents from the EU's medical regulator have revealed...

None of the hundreds of Israeli teenagers who received the Pfizer Covid vaccine suffered serious side effects, senior officials have claimed...

Given the debate over Brexit, it was expected that the United Kingdom would have to bear numerous costs in terms of the economy...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for more humanitarian access in conflict-hit Syria to reach more people in need of assistance...

Yehiyeh Sinwar was re-elected Wednesday as head of Hamas’s political wing in Gaza, extending his tenure as the Islamist movement’s de facto leader in the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian enclave, Hamas said...

Palestine registered 27 new fatalities from the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the highest single-day rise since the beginning of the pandemic, the Health Ministry said Wednesday...

The government on Wednesday announced new measures to curb the recent surge in coronavirus cases in the Kingdom...

The UN Security Council on Wednesday condemned for the first time the violence against anti-coup protesters in Myanmar and urged the military to exercise utmost restraint...

To mark 10 years of conflict in Syria, EU lawmakers have held a debate on the current state of play. Many in the European Parliament point the finger at President Bashar al-Assad...

Bahrain’s police forces have beaten children they arrested on the anniversary of the 2011 pro-democracy uprising, threatening them with rape and electric shocks, according to two human rights groups...

Despite his campaign promises of ending the Forever Wars, Joe Biden has already entangled his presidency within them...

A few days before the now-infamous Oprah interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, the British press reported that in 2018 Markle wore earrings gifted by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman (MbS)...