President-elect Joe Biden won't walk away from the UAE, but there are a number of issues that will seriously test the relationship...

A suicide attacker using an explosive vest killed eight people and injured 16 in central Baghdad market, police and medical sources said on Thursday...

Lebanon should be cautious in its efforts to close deals to secure any vaccines against COVID-19, in particular regarding the quality of the Chinese manufactured vaccines, health experts and academics have warned...

Jordan on Wednesday condemned Israeli authorities’ tenders for hundreds of settler units in the occupied Palestinian territories, warning against the move's threats to peace efforts...

Emotions ran high during a meeting of the UN Security Council on Wednesday, as permanent members traded jabs and accusations...

The team behind the UK’s main COVID-19 vaccine, developed at Oxford University, is preparing to update the inoculation to be resistant to new strains of the virus...

Iran’s foreign minister welcomed the departure of US President Donald Trump and his administration Wednesday while suggesting that newly elected President Joe Biden should abandon his predecessor’s policies...

US President Joe Biden is pledging a new path for the nation after Donald Trump’s four years in office...

 Joseph R. Biden Jr. took the oath of office Wednesday on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, becoming the 46th president of the United States...

Gas explosion destroys nursing home in Madrid; unknown injuries. The shock has been felt throughout the city...

Under soon-to-be President Joe Biden, the US and the EU should build a new alliance, a key leader of the bloc proposed on Wednesday...

Sudan's transitional government has deployed military units to the conflict-ridden Darfur region in an attempt to help restore calm there following three days of tribal violence...

Israeli tanks have targeted the Gaza Strip in a new act of aggression against the blockaded Palestinian territory...

Myanmar agreed to calls by Bangladesh at a tripartite meeting facilitated by China to start the much-awaited repatriation of Rohingya in the second quarter of this year, officials said Tuesday...

Desperate relatives of Covid patients in Brazil have been queuing for hours to fill their loved-ones' oxygen tanks while a new mutant strain of the virus ravages the country...

Israel’s education minister is banning groups that call the country an “apartheid state” from making school visits to present information to students, CBS News has reported...

Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Chinese internet behemoth Alibaba, made his first public appearance in over two months in an online video on Wednesday, ending weeks of speculation about his whereabouts...

Coronavirus deaths in care homes have doubled in a fortnight in England, figures revealed today amid a spike in cases across the sector...

Donald Trump's decision to shun Joe Biden's inauguration has caused serious logistical problems for perhaps the most sensitive section of the presidential handover: the nuclear codes...

With all the crises the world is going through today, an increasing amount of fear, uncertainty, stress and financial deprivation has sparked an environment enabling diverse forms of violence...