US stocks rose Thursday after Chair Jerome Powell said the economy’s progress is faster than expected. European leaders are set to hold a virtual summit to discuss the vaccine rollout across the bloc. Germany reversed a plan for a five-day lockdown, but …

Ammon News – As the conflict in Syria marks its 10th year, the Republic of Korea has stepped forward to support refugees in Jordan. Through a $1 million contribution, signed Wednesday by South Korea’s Ambassador to Jordan Lee Jae-Wan and UNHCR’s …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and High Representative Josep Borrell (then Spanish Foreign Minister), meet in Moscow in 2018.Russia MFA CC BY-NC-SA In recent years, the EU has based its Russia policy on modest sanctions, periodic offers of …

At least one Chinese online retailer appeared to drop H&M’s products amid social media attacks on the Swedish company for saying it was “deeply concerned” about reports of forced labour in …

With waves, smiles and high fives, but no cheers, the Olympic torch relay set off on Thursday, beginning a four-month countdown to the postponed 2020 summer

India recorded more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases on Thursday for the first time since November as a new wave of infections takes hold a year after one of the world's tightest Covid-19 lockdowns was imposed.

This year's elections reflect the status of democracy in both Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. In Israel, a 73-year old state, the political system is broken and the appearance of democratic legitimacy is sustained by repeated elections.

A British court on Thursday refused Johnny Depp permission to appeal a judge's ruling that he assaulted ex-wife Amber Heard. Two Court of Appeal judges said the Hollywood star cannot challenge the High Court's rejection of his libel lawsuit against publisher of The Sun newspaper for labelling him a "wife …

BEIJING, March 25 (Xinhua) — The COVID-19 vaccine assistance provided by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) to some foreign militaries is not out of any geopolitical calculation or attached to political strings, a Chinese military spokesperson …

DAKAR (Reuters) – When Senegal erupted in violent protests this month over perceived injustice and inequality, artist Omar Ba was tackling the issues in his own way, with paint on canvas. "What the youth are doing in the streets is the same thing I'm doing …