Brussels - Some 1,000 vulnerable refugees from the overcrowded camps on the Greek islands are being moved to hotels temporarily due to the dangers posed by the novel coronavirus, the European Union's...
Washington - By Shabtai Gold, ) - The global economy will contract 3 per cent this year due to the new coronavirus and shutdowns aimed at mitigating its spread, the IMF said on Tuesday in its updated...
Tripoli – Libya’s UN-backed government said Monday its forces have taken control of two strategic cities west of the capital Tripoli from rival troops led by commander Khalifa Haftar. Mohamed...
Tokyo - By Takehiko Kambayashi, – Many Japanese were expressing criticism at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s stay-at-home message on social networks as more people struggled to make ends meet due to the...
Rome -By Alvise Armellin - Pope Francis offered words of comfort to a virus-stricken world on Sunday, as he led normally joyous Easter celebrations in an eerily empty St Peter's Basilica. All papal...
Damascus - The Syrian government on Thursday condemned a report by the Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) that said the military leadership of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...
Washington - By Sophie Wingate, - The US Federal Reserve on Thursday announced another series of sweeping actions to provide up to 2.3 trillion dollars in loans to support the economy amid the...
Washington (dpa) - The coronavirus pandemic will spark the worst global economic fallout since the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Thursday....
Baghdad (dpa) -The chief of Iraq's intelligence service, Mostafa al-Kazemi, has been named as the country's new prime minister-designate, the official Iraqi news agency INA reports. President Barham...
Istanbul (dpa) - Five civilians were killed on Wednesday in a bomb attack in Turkey's south-eastern city of Diyarbakir, the governor's office said, blaming the assault on militants from the banned...