Former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday that he believes the coronavirus originated and "escaped" from a Wuhan lab in China...

At least 32 people have been killed and 66 more injured in a collision between two passenger trains in Egypt on Friday, the Health Ministry said...

According to the results of the fourth parliamentary elections in Israel, the victory of the current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a source of joy, both in secret and in public, for many people in the Middle East...

Brazil’s Health Ministry on Thursday reported over 100,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time since the outbreak in the country, the country’s Health Ministry said...

US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy C. Shea on Thursday urged Lebanon’s leaders to form a new government and “rescue the country from the multiple crises and self-inflicted wounds” it was facing...

The results of Israel’s early general elections show that a new coalition crisis awaits the country...

A top US Democrat says President Joe Biden is looking to keep US troops in Afghanistan beyond a May 1 deadline, warning that US forces would be vulnerable and could “lose lives” if they remain in the country...

Yemen’s Shia political alliance, which fought against a Saudi-led Gulf alliance for years, seeks more concessions from Riyadh, experts say...

Syria and Russia say they will intensify efforts to repatriate refugees and displaced people to areas liberated from foreign-backed terrorists, despite sanctions imposed by the United States on the Arab country...

A senior Yemeni health official says more than 500 medical facilities have been destroyed as a result of attacks by the Saudi-led coalition waging a devastating military campaign against the country...

North Korea launched a pair of ballistic missiles on Wednesday in its second test in a week. The missiles were fired into the Sea of Japan, but no other details about the launch were given, according to reports by CNBC, ABC News ...

Unidentified person hijacks plane in Mauritania’s Nouakchott and threatens to blow it up, security forces at airport  say as shown by Al-Arabiya TV and reported in Arab News...

Russia's opposition figure Alexei Navalny is in 'satisfactory' condition, Russia's prison service said yesterday, after allies described his health as deteriorating...

Turkey's president on Wednesday was unanimously re-elected leader of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party in a congress in the capital Ankara...

The British prime minister has said the government would look at sending troops to Yemen if the conditions were right...

A total of 104 COVID-19 deaths and 9,130 virus cases were recorded in the Kingdom on Wednesday, increasing the caseload to 562,857, the government announced...

Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab has ruled out the possibility of reinstating the government he led until its resignation on August 10, 2020...

As part of the trilateral cooperation mechanism between Jordan, Egypt and Iraq, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Bisher Al Khasawneh on Wednesday met an Iraqi delegation for follow-up and coordination...

Chinese authorities reported three people died after a strong earthquake struck China's far west region of Xinjiang on Wednesday...

India's ministry of health announced Wednesday officials have discovered a new COVID-19 variant with two mutations as well as hundreds other infections caused by other known variants of concern first found in Britain, South Africa and Brazi...