Libya's national oil corporation says losses from a protracted blockade of vital oil files and ports have surpassed $4 billion amid an escalation of fighting between rival forces for the capital Tripoli

Even as both face the same invisible enemy in the coronavirus pandemic, Iran and the U.S. remain locked in retaliatory pressure campaigns that now view the outbreak as just the latest battleground

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended the world’s largest coronavirus lockdown, hoping to head off the epidemic's peak as officials race to make up for lost time