2020

In a joint appeal issued on Saturday, the five UN envoys to the Middle East urged warring parties in the region to work towards an immediate end to hostilities, in line with the Secretary-General’s recent call for a global ceasefire…

The World Health Organization (WHO) is working with countries on strategies to "gradually and safely" ease stay-at-home restrictions aimed at containing the spread of the new coronavirus, agency chief Tedros Adhanom…

Syrian government has decided to extend the suspension of school and university activities in the country until 2nd of next month. The government’s team on the strategy to address the new Coronavirus epidemic in Syria called for a…

The Canadian government said Thursday that it had renegotiated the terms of a $14 billion light armored vehicles contract with Saudi Arabia, paving the way for exports to recommence. Vehicle sales had been on hold since 2018…

South Korea reported on Friday that 91 recovered coronavirus patients have tested positive for the disease again, raising questions over health experts’ understanding of the pandemic. The prospect of people being re-infected with the…

The United States has recorded more than 20,000 deaths since the coronavirus outbreak began, surpassing Italy as the country with the highest number of confirmed deaths, the latest updates show. According to the Johns Hopkins University…

A number of African migrants were killed and injured and a child was seriously wounded when the US-backed Saudi-led coalition aggression launched 59 airstrikes and ground attacks on Yemen provinces over the past 24 hours, Military Media…

Yemen has reported its first case of infection with the novel coronavirus in a southern province under the control of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to the country’s former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. This has raised fears of…

While the COVID-19 pandemic is first and foremost a health crisis, its implications are more far-reaching and could threaten global peace and security, the UN Secretary-General told members of the Security Council in a closed…

Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Mohammed al-Mansour, has stressed “the need to take urgent procedural decisions, the first of which is to close the ports and prevent the manifestations of gatherings.” Al-Mansour said in…