Police in Myanmar’s ancient former capital, Bagan, opened fire Sunday on demonstrators protesting last month’s military takeover, wounding several people, according to witness accounts and v... Read more

United States envoy to Yemen Tim Lenderking has extended his tour of the region indefinitely after visiting a number of Gulf countries. His tour was supposed to last ten days, but it has so... Read more

Pope Francis made a emphatic appeal for peaceful coexistence in Iraq on Sunday as he prayed for the country’s war dead amid the ruins of four demolished churches in Mosul, which suffered wid... Read more

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan won a vote of confidence in parliament on Saturday, the speaker announced after the vote, backed by 178 lawmakers in the 342-member National Assembly. All... Read more

Chinese lawmakers began deliberating a draft decision on improving the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Friday at the fourth session of the 13th Nat... Read more

The virus swept through a nursery school and an adjacent elementary school in the Milan suburb of Bollate with amazing speed. In a matter of just days, 45 children and 14 staff members had t... Read more

The Coalition to Fight Legitimacy in Yemen said on Saturday it intercepted and destroyed two explosives-laden drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi militias towards Saudi Arabia’s southern citie... Read more

The scenes are seared in the memory of the Rev. Ammar Altony Yako: A church that for decades has been the pride of the town of Qaraqosh, a center for Christian life in Iraq, stood badly scar... Read more

The Senate worked through the night and past sunrise Saturday on Democrats’ showpiece $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill after a deal between leaders and moderate Sen. Joe Manchin on emergen... Read more

After a long period of hesitation, the Czech Republic is now accepting offers of help from abroad as the coronavirus situation worsens in the central European nation. Germany, Poland and Swi... Read more

The German government has agreed to compensate energy companies with around 2.43 billion euros (2.9 billion dollars) for losses incurred due to the nation’s phasing out of nuclear powe... Read more

Despite a high-profile visit to China by a team of international experts in January, the world is no closer to knowing the origins of COVID-19, according to one of the authors of an open let... Read more

Hossam al-Haddad A number of human rights groups, especially the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, called on the United Nations to intervene to prevent the Iran-backed Houthi militia... Read more

Mustafa Kamel Political leaders in Libya are currently intensifying their efforts to give confidence to the new Libyan government to enable it to restore stability to the country. The new Li... Read more

Mustafa Kamel Warnings of terrorist operations by al-Qaeda and ISIS in Africa have escalated following an attack by ISIS elements on a United Nations relief center in Nigeria. In early March... Read more