Beijing and the Hong Kong government are using the pandemic as a “golden opportunity” to crack down on dissent and the growing pro-democracy movement, according to a senior protest leader ar... Read more

A gunman in Canada posing as a police officer has killed 16 people after a 12-hour shooting rampage across Nova Scotia in the worst act of mass murder the country has seen in modern times. S... Read more

Oil prices have slumped to their lowest for two decades as doubts grew about Donald Trump’s hopes of ending the US lockdown and investors braced for a week of potentially damaging figures ab... Read more

New Zealanders will remain in total lockdown for another week, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said, with restrictions easing if elimination progress is maintained. Speaking at the Beehive... Read more

US hostility to the World Health Organization scuppered the publication of a communique by G20 health ministers on Sunday that committed to strengthening the WHO’s mandate in coordinating a... Read more

Donald Trump has been accused of using another White House coronavirus task force briefing to broadcast a “campaign ad” in which New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, one of his most trenchant cri... Read more

Some social distancing measures to stay ‘for some time to come’, says Sturgeon At her daily news conference Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, said that the Scottish gov... Read more

Sir Richard Branson has said he will put his private Caribbean island up as collateral in his attempt to persuade the UK government to save his Virgin Atlantic airline from going bust. Brans... Read more

Alexandros Gennimatas, the spokesperson for the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, issued a statement on Friday in response to the provocative Turkish allegations against Greece published on... Read more

  Ahmed Sami Abdel-Fattah   International reports exposed the allegations and falsehood of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the strained relations between Ankara and Is... Read more

  Ahmed Adel   Renewed armed clashes took place on Friday, April 10, 2020 between the militants of the Massena battalion, which is affiliated with the group called Supporting Islam... Read more

Muazz Mohamed Qatar keeps interfering in the affairs of Arab states, even as such a policy is costing the Qatari economy dearly. Doha is now acting in sync with both al-Qaeda and the Islamic... Read more

Sara Rashad The decision of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Australian National Imams Council to appoint a female member within its board is significant, given the Brotherhood’s low... Read more

Shaimaa Yahya   When the Covid-19 corona virus swept through the world in a short period of time and killed thousands of people, countries intensified efforts to contain the pandemic, t... Read more

  In order for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to realize his dream of renewing the Ottoman caliphate and control the wealth of the Middle East, the Ankara-based Foundation for P... Read more