Islam Mohammed   Remarkable change is now taking place by Iran on the issue of kidnapped Western citizens, where Tehran offered to exchange these detainees with Western countries... Read more

Black people are more than four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people, according to stark official figures exposing a dramatic divergence in the impact of the coronavirus... Read more

Humanity’s “promiscuous treatment of nature” needs to change or there will be more deadly pandemics such as Covid-19, warn scientists who have analysed the link between viruses, wildlife and... Read more

A cabinet minister has confirmed that 400,000 gowns from Turkey to protect medics from coronavirus have been impounded because they were poor quality, but he insisted “strong supplies” were... Read more

Nahla Abdelmonem Al-Qaeda is stepping up its campaign against the Indian government, especially after its approval of the new citizenship law. It said in a statement it released in early May... Read more

Ahmed Adel The Iran-backed Houthi militia maintains its attempts to stoke tensions in Yemen, even after the implementation of a truce by the Arab Coalition, led by Saudi Arabia and the Unite... Read more

Indiana Khaled Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suspended his country’s parliament for 45 days. His decision came shortly after the Turkish legislature passed into law a bill... Read more

The UAE banned on Tuesday the entry of children under the age of 12 and seniors above the age of 60 to malls, retail shops and supermarkets, as part of the government’s efforts to contain th... Read more

No work, no travel and no social interactions. These are just some of the changes thrust on populations across the world by the upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic. While the partial easing... Read more

Saudi Arabia’s coronavirus treatment protocol, extensive testing and active screenings have helped the Kingdom maintain its relatively low death rate, Health Minister Dr. Tawfiq al-Rabiah sa... Read more

Countries across the Asia-Pacific region have announced plans to cautiously reopen for business as governments around the world race to reboot economies devastated by the coronavirus pandemi... Read more

Donald Trump is preparing to wind down the White House coronavirus taskforce even as the US death toll has topped 70,000 and experts warn that the worst is yet to come. Mike Pence, the vice-... Read more

Prof Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist whose modelling helped shape Britain’s coronavirus lockdown strategy, has quit as a government adviser after flouting the rules by receiving visits fro... Read more

Britain could exit the coronavirus lockdown by relaxing restrictions on more than half of the population and beefing up protection for those over 70 and vulnerable people, scientists have sa... Read more

The head of a global partnership to end tuberculosis (TB) said she is “sickened” by research that revealed millions more people are expected to contract the disease as a result of Covid-19 r... Read more