North Korea said Friday it had lifted a three-week lockdown that was imposed on a border city after a defector believed to be carrying the coronavirus sneaked back into the country. The secretive nation has insisted it has had no cases of COVID-19 — a claim international experts say is unlikely, given the spread of […]

The United States has introduced a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council to extend a soon-to-expire arms embargo on Iran. The move is expected to fail, according to diplomats, and could imperil the nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers. The conventional arms embargo is set to end on October 18, under […]

Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris put the coronavirus pandemic front and center in their campaign Thursday, targeting Donald Trump’s response to the health and economic crises ahead of November’s election.

The FBI will join investigators probing the cause of the huge port blast that destroyed swathes of Beirut, the top career diplomat at the US State Department said Thursday. “The FBI will soon join Lebanese and international investigators, at the invitation of the Lebanese, in order to help answer questions that I know everyone has […]

The owner of a restaurant in the north of Malaysia has been jailed for five months after pleading guilty to breaching coronavirus quarantine rules. The unnamed man “was supposed to be under home quarantine but instead went out to open his restaurant, and as a result, a few villages in Kedah and Perlis had to […]