Arab and International

"As Iranians are ravaged by the coronavirus, the U.S. is complicit in their death. This is a crime against humanity."   "How evil and heartless can this government get?" peace activist Medea Benjamin asked Wednesday after the State Department ...

The prisoners reportedly contracted the virus after contact with an Israeli investigator who had COVID-19, a rights group has said   Israeli authorities have informed Palestinians held at the Megiddo prison in Israel that four cases of the nov...

European stock markets opened sharply higher on Friday as more central banks adopted monetary and fiscal measures to deal with the economic downturn as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. Stocks in London jumped in early trading with the FTSE 100 in...

The number of deaths from the novel coronavirus doubled in a week to more than 10,000 on Friday, led by large jumps in Italy, Iran and Spain, and increasing the urgency for governments all over the world to contain the pandemic. Earlier it had been...

The novel coronavirus has spread rapidly outside of China since its first known case in December 2019, ravaging markets and establishing itself as a global threat. Various companies, governments, and health authorities have put into place sweeping ...

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has said his country is to extend its lockdown measures further due to the virus. Imposed nationally on 12 March, the shutdown of most businesses and a ban on public gatherings in Italy, the European country wo...

A Palestinian youth was wounded on Thursday by the Zionist enemy forces east of the town of Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. The agency “Safa”, quoting a medical source in the Indonesian Hospital, said that the enemy soldiers fired live bullets to...

World Health Organization (WHO) has accused countries in the Arab region of not providing them with sufficient information about new infections of the Coronavirus, “Covid-19”, on its land. The Director of the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterra...

A group of Iranian physicians have written a letter to certain regional heads of state, urging them to take necessary measures to destroy “all of the US biological laboratories,” amid reports and speculation that the global coronavirus outbreak has b...

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warns that the American sanctions are “literally” taking lives in Iran in the midst of a fight to rein in a coronavirus outbreak, calling on world states to join “a growing global campaign” to defy the “unlawful”...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants the European Union to put in place a 30-day ban on people entering the bloc unless their travel is essential, in an effort to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. On the eve of an EU summi...

China said Tuesday it was “strongly indignant” after a tweet from US President Donald Trump referred to the new coronavirus as the “Chinese virus”. Saying that Beijing was ‘indignant’ over the matter, its foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told...

Qatar’s Health Ministry on Monday reported 38 new coronavirus cases in the country. In a statement, the Ministry noted that most of the new cases recorded were related to migrant workers who were under quarantine. According to the statement, three ...

Minister of Health for Somalia Fawzia Abikar Nur said her country has confirmed the first infection of the coronavirus after a person who was in quarantine was found that he has been infected. “After quarantine and testing of four Somalis who came f...

German ministers have reacted angrily following reports US president Donald Trump offered a German medical company “large sums of money” for exclusive rights to a Covid-19 vaccine. “Germany is not for sale,” economy minister Peter Altmaier told bro...

U.S. stocks plunged Monday morning, triggering a 15-minute trading halt at the start of trading and then diving further, as investors fled risk assets amid the mounting economic toll of the coronavirus outbreak. Treasuries surged despite dramatic mo...

US President Donald Trump has tested negative for the coronavirus, White House physician Sean Conley has confirmed. On Saturday, the president said he had taken the test the night before after being questioned about it during a Rose Garden address ...

France voted in municipal elections Sunday that risk a low turnout as the mounting coronavirus infection toll saw the government indefinitely close cafes, restaurants and schools. Anti-infection precautions were in place at the country’s 35,000-odd...

For the second time in a week, multiple rockets have struck US-occupied Taji military base in Iraq, Iraqi and US security sources say.    An Iraqi colonel inside the base, located 27 kilometers north of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, told ...

Iranian army forces are heading to clear streets across the country within 24 hours in an effort to control the spread of the new Corona virus (Covid-19,Iran’s armed forces chief of staff said Friday. A newly formed committee will oversee the “evacu...