India’s government needs to urgently address healthcare shortages amid the world’s fastest-growing Covid-19 crisis and ensure that vulnerable communities have equitable access to treatment, Human Rights Watch said today...

"The cheapest health intervention is to wash your hands and vaccines are the second cheapest intervention...

U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad expressed his confidence in the Afghan government following the planned withdrawal of U...

The UN’s special envoy for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, on Tuesday called on the Houthis to halt their attack on Marib...

The Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) has authorized the emergency use of China’s CoronaVac. Mahmoud Yassin, who is the EDA’s head of Central Administration for Biological and Innovative Products, said Monday that the license was given after the vac...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday laid out his vision for the Kingdom’s foreign policy, with the US as a strategic partner and working with allies to find solutions to Iran’s “negative behavior...

Somalia’s president called early Wednesday for elections in a bid to ease the current political tensions in the country...

Israel is not trying to thwart the Palestinian elections and expects European countries will not pay heed to accusations being leveled by Palestinian officials, a senior Israeli official said Tuesday...

May is a month of commemoration. It was in Paris in 1889 that The International Socialist Workers Congress met to designate 1 May International Workers’ Day...

The United Nations is strongly committed to working with the people and leaders of South Sudan to secure stability and eventual prosperity for the country, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Nicholas Haysom said...

Saudi forces intercepted and destroyed a remote-controlled booby-trapped boat in the Red Sea near the port of Yanbu, Al Arabiya reported on Tuesday...

The US has said it is gravely concerned over recent violent clashes in Somalia's capital Mogadishu as a former president accused the government of attacking his residence...

At least 753 people have been killed so far in Myanmar's military crackdown against anti-coup protesters, according to the latest figures released by a rights watchdog late on Monday...

The United States called on Sudan and South Sudan to implement the 2011 agreement and to form a joint administration in Abyei until an agreement on its final status is reached...

Israeli forces have leveled large swathes of Palestinian-owned land in the West Bank city of Ramallah in order to construct new illegal settlements in the occupied territory...

Czech President Milos Zeman has expressed doubts about alleged Russian involvement in the 2014 ammunition dump blast in the central European nation that sparked a major row with Moscow, which fiercely denied the accusation...

A major armed group in Myanmar says it has captured an outpost of the army near the country's eastern border with Thailand, as armed resistance ramps up against the military junta...

Some 94 new cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in Israel on Monday, with 0.2% of tests returning positive, according to a Tuesday morning update by the Health Ministry...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will offer Yamina leader Naftali Bennett and New Hope chairman Gideon Sa’ar the opportunity to go first in a rotation in the Prime Minister’s Office as early as Tuesday night, after the Likud Central Committee me...

Twenty retired French generals have called for military rule if Emmanuel Macron fails to halt the 'disintegration' of the country 'at the hands of Islamists', in an open letter published ahead of next year's presidential election...