
Lebanese cabinet on Friday approved a five-phase plan to reopen the country after a lockdown aimed at stemming the outbreak of coronavirus. After approving a draft decree aimed at extending the declaration of public mobilization, announced on March 15, for two more weeks, the cabinet endorsed a plan to open ...

The global coronavirus death toll approached 200,000 on Saturday as the United Nations launched an international push for a vaccine to defeat the pandemic. Governments around the world are struggling to limit the economic devastation unleashed by the virus, which has infected nearly 2.8 million people and left half of ...