Amman (dpa) - Mosques, restaurants, street markets and most schools will be closed for two weeks starting Thursday in Jordan, amid an "unprecedented" increase in coronavirus infections and deaths in...
Islamabad – Police in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi have arrested dozens of suspects in connection with the rape and killing of a 5-year-old girl that has sparked outrage in the country. "We...
London (dpa) - A number of people have been injured in a series of stabbings in the city of Birmingham in central England, police said early Sunday. "We can confirm that at approximately 12:30 am...
Rome (dpa) - The Italian government plans to extend measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus through the end of September, including requiring people to wear masks and maintain...
Tokyo - By Takehiko Kambayashi, – Powerful Typhoon Haishen was barrelling towards southern Japanese islands on Sunday with authorities issuing evacuation orders to hundreds of thousands of residents....
Beirut - By Weedah Hamzah, - Chilean rescue workers and Lebanese civil defence volunteers have resumed their precarious search for a possible survivor of the Beirut port blast after a sign of life...
London - US online retail giant Amazon on Thursday announced plans to create 7,000 more jobs in warehouses and offices in Britain this year, taking its permanent staff in the country to more than...
Cairo (dpa) - Qatar has dismantled the "kafala" employment system and introduced a minimum wage as part of major changes to its labour market, the UN labour body said on Sunday. The International...
New York (tca/dpa) - Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the New York Times over an inaccurate editorial are headed to trial. Manhattan Federal Judge Jed Rakoff wrote in a 36-page decision that the former...
Wellington - By Rebekah Lyell, - A survivor of the 2019 mosque attacks in New Zealand thanked the gunman at the Christchurch High Court on Tuesday, saying he showed the world that "terrorists do not...