ON A baking-hot Friday afternoon in the dusty Athenian district of Neos Kosmos, a cheerful assortment of (mostly male) worshippers greet one another in Arabic, Greek and other languages, and... Read more

The health secretary, Matt Hancock, is facing fresh pressure over the protection offered to NHS staff after the European commission said the UK had been given “ample opportunity” to join an... Read more

665 more hospital deaths in England bringing total to 16,272 NHS England has announced 665 further deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed r... Read more

Taiwanese authorities are trying to track down thousands of people who might have come into contact with more than 700 sailors who were allowed to disembark after a “goodwill” mission to the... Read more

The state of Missouri is suing the Chinese government over the coronavirus, alleging that nation’s officials are to blame for the global pandemic. The lawsuit, filed in federal court by the... Read more

The United Arab Emirates’ leadership set up on Tuesday a taskforce to study the optimal use of government buildings and facilities and the possibility of converting them into medical facilit... Read more

Indiana Khaled Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan uses the coronavirus pandemic around the world in maintaining its support to terrorist groups outside his country, including in Syria an... Read more

Mustafa Kamel   At a time when the Idlib region is witnessing a ceasefire in what is known as the “de-escalation zone”, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led by Abu Mohammad al-Julani, has be... Read more

Shaimaa Yahya   In an attempt to save the Qatari gas industry from complete collapse due to the global outbreak of the Covid-19 corona virus and its impact on the only industry that kee... Read more

Aya Azz While Doha harbors terrorists from the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Afghan Taliban, and other internationally classified terrorist figures, Qatar has deported large numbers... Read more

Donald Trump has been accused of “xenophobic scapegoating” after he announced he will order a temporary ban on immigration into the US to combat the coronavirus pandemic. There were no other... Read more

Only a tiny proportion of the global population – maybe as few as 2% or 3% – appear to have antibodies in the blood showing they have been infected with Covid-19, according to the World Heal... Read more

Donald Trump’s pledge to help America’s oil industry (without much detail) has helped push US crude prices a little higher. The poor old US crude contract for May is now $1.4 per barrel, hav... Read more