BEIRUT: Lebanon’s army said Saturday it has carried out a survey of more than 85,000 dwellings, businesses and other building units damaged by the massive Beirut port blast last month.The August 4 explosion of

Wildfires are continuing to burn through Brazil's Amazon rainforest and the Pantanal wetlands with historic force. But President Jair Bolsonaro has said Brazil is an "example for the world" in its handling of the

GENEVA: Armed groups in the area of northern Syria controlled by Turkey may have committed war crimes and other violations of international law, the UN rights chief said Friday.Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High

More than 30 million people around the world have been diagnosed with the coronavirus and 943,515 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University. Some 20.4 million people have recovered. New Zealand reported no new

LONDON: Experts from the UN Human Rights Council have called on Iran to temporarily release human rights defenders from prison to protect them from the spread of COVID-19. “Iranian human rights defenders in prison are

Lamine Diack, the former head of athletics' world governing body, has been sentenced to two years in prison after he was convicted of corruption in a Russian doping scandal. Diack, 87, was found guilty

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates wants to modernize its military and a request for US F-35 warplanes has been on the table since before a normalization deal with Israel, the minister of state for

More than 20 pro-democracy activists have appeared in a Hong Kong court accused of joining or organising an illegal gathering on June 4 to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Their case has been

TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign ministry on Monday summoned Germany’s ambassador over tweets condemning the execution of a wrestler, accused of murdering a man during a wave of anti-government protests in 2018.The ministry “strongly condemned” the

The World Health Organization has reported a record-breaking number of coronavirus cases worldwide, with at least 307,930 cases confirmed in just one day.  Victoria, the second-most populous state in Australia and the epicentre of