Iraq’s typically divided Shiite political parties lined up yesterday to signal their opposition to premier-designate Adnan al-Zurfi, less than 24…

When Dr. Ismail al-Mansouri goes to work in Yemen’s capital, he puts on one of the hospital’s few pairs of medical gloves. Then he enters…

Margaret Sparrow was 21 years old when she drank a concoction to induce an abortion, at a time when the procedure was both illegal and socially unacceptable in New Zealand. Now age 84, Sparrow was delighted Wednesday when lawmakers passed a landmark bill that treats the procedure as a health issue rather…

A 103-year-old woman in Iran has recovered after being infected with the new coronavirus, state media reported, despite overwhelming evidence the elderly are most at risk from the disease. The unnamed woman had been hospitalised in the central city of Semnan for about a week, IRNA news agency said.…

Greece has said it is placing migrant camps across the country on a two-week shutdown to visitors to ward off the new coronavirus. “Visits (to camps)…

More than 850 million young people, or about half the world’s student population, are barred from their school and university grounds because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, UNESCO said yesterday. Calling it an “unprecedented challenge,” UNESCO said schools had been closed in 102…

WHO DEMANDS MORE DATA ON VIRUS FROM MIDEAST STATES AFP, Cairo The World Health Organization urged Middle Eastern governments yesterday to be more forthcoming with information about new coronavirus infections in order to effectively combat the global pandemic. “We can only control this disease…