US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden offered sharply contrasting views on the still-raging coronavirus pandemic at Thursday’s final presidential debate, seeking to persuade th

The number of coronavirus deaths reported in the United States on Wednesday (October 22) reached its highest in two months, offering more evidence that the pandemic was gaining fresh momentum across t

Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has left for Brussels to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with NATO and European Union officials, his office said on Wednesday (October 21).

Russia’s energy minister said on Tuesday (October 20) it was too early to discuss the future of global oil production curbs beyond December, less than a week after saying plans to reduce the output re

President Donald Trump announced on Monday (October 19) the United States would remove Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as soon as Khartoum sets aside the $335 million it has agreed

A new ceasefire in the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh appeared to be in jeopardy on Monday (October 19), with ethnic Armenian forces and Azerbaijan accusing each other of renewed shelling.

Ersin Tatar, prime minister of the breakaway state of North Cyprus, won a presidential election runoff on Sunday (October 18) with 51.74% of votes, said Narin Ferdi Sefik, head of the electoral board.

Global coronavirus cases rose by more than 400,000 for the first time on Saturday (October 17), a record one-day increase as much of Europe enacts new restrictions to curb the outbreak.

French police were questioning nine people in custody on Saturday (October 17) after a suspected Islamist sympathiser beheaded a school teacher in broad daylight on the street in a Paris suburb, polic

Azerbaijan said on Saturday (October 17) 12 civilians were killed and more than 40 were wounded in the city of Ganja due to shelling by Armenia.

Greece and Cyprus pushed for a tougher European Union response to Turkey’s natural gas exploration in contested Mediterranean waters at an EU summit on Friday (October 16) but were essentially told to

Armenian and Azeri forces fought new clashes on Friday (October 16), defying hopes of ending nearly three weeks of fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh which US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said was “a po

The world could get on track to avert catastrophic climate change by investing a tenth of a planned $2 trillion in pandemic recovery packages in reducing dependence on fossil fuels, according to a stu

Wisconsin and other states in the US Midwest are battling a surge in COVID-19 cases, with new infections and hospitalizations rising to record levels in an ominous sign of a nationwide resurgence as t

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a phone call with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, expressed his concerns on Wednesday (October 15) about the participation of Middle East fighters in the Nagorno

The United States on Tuesday (October 13) slammed Turkey’s renewed push to send a vessel to carry out seismic surveys in the eastern Mediterranean, accusing Ankara of unilaterally stoking tensions and

A slow economic recovery from the pandemic threatens to delay a full rebound in world energy demand to 2025, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday (October 13).

The number of new COVID-19 cases rose 11% in the United States last week compared to the previous seven days, with infections spreading rapidly in the Midwest, which reported some of the highest posit

More than 180 countries have committed to participate in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) effort to finance COVID-19 vaccines to be distributed fairly to both rich and poor countries, the group’s

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other of swiftly and seriously violating the terms of a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh on Saturday, raising questions about how meaningful the truce, brokered by Rus