In her opening statement at the press conference Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, also said that the Scottish government was spending an extra £33m on measures to get people back... Read more

Donald Trump has threatened to cut funding to the World Health Organization permanently and even pull the US out of the global body altogether unless it makes “major substantive improvements... Read more

Local authorities across Mexico have resisted President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s call to lift emergency coronavirus measures in municipalities without confirmed Covid-19 cases, warning... Read more

Nancy Pelosi has led a chorus of surprise and alarm after Donald Trump said he was taking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to ward off coronavirus. Trump’s own government has warned that... Read more

Donald Trump has told reporters at the White House that for “a couple weeks” he has been taking a malaria drug as a defense against Covid-19 – despite warnings from his administration that i... Read more

Shortly after midnight, five ambulances pull up at the German Nicaraguan hospital in Managua – lights flashing, but no sirens wailing. The gates quickly close behind them, but reopen after l... Read more

Chinese authorities have sealed off the north-eastern city of Shulan, home to about 700,000 people, after an outbreak of coronavirus, imposing measures similar to those used in Wuhan. All vi... Read more

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has turned his country into a large prison for the opposition, and instead of running the country through a government, he runs it as a “mafia ga... Read more

Aya Ezz Iran is expanding its influence in the northeastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zur, especially after the Iraqi government started tightening the noose around Iranian militias in Iraq... Read more

Doaa Emam Muslim Brotherhood media figures keep spreading false news about Egypt, using media outlets broadcast or published from Istanbul, under sponsorship from Turkish President Recep Tay... Read more

Menna Abdelrazik Iranian state institutions keep fiddling, despite the growing number of coronavirus infections and deteriorating economic conditions in their country. Iranian President Hass... Read more

Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar   A state of relief had prevailed around the world after former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had announced in July 2017 that his country’s forces we... Read more

Shaimaa Yahya   There is a sharp division between the two opposing Kurdish sides in Syria, namely the US-allied Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the Kurdish National Council (KNC), whic... Read more

Qatar records 1,365 new coronavirus infections as the number of active cases rises to 29,055, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday. For more coronavirus news, visit our dedicated page.... Read more

Leaving your house without a face mask could send you to prison for three years in Qatar, where the government has threatened violators with jail time and a fine of up to $55,000. Many gover... Read more