Greek quarantines a cluster of Muslim-majority towns and villages after several cases and a death from the new coronavirus in the area.

Cameroon holds by-elections in the country's troubled Anglophone areas where unrest forced a postponement six weeks ago.

At least 43 people are killed in raids on villages in northern Burkina Faso.

Iran says rural road network in the country will expand by 2,000 kilometers until late March.

Syrian army liberates two more towns in the southeastern countryside of the country's Idlib province.

The Syrian army retakes more villages in the northwestern Idlib province as part of an operation to liberate the last major terrorist-held territory in the Arab country.

A car bomb kills at least eight people in a city held by Turkey-backed militants in northern Syria.

Iran says almost all villages across the country, a total of 34,090, have access to mobile phone services.

Local authorities evacuated 500 residents from the villages of Kontodespoti and Makrimalli and the monastery of Panagia Makrymallis on the Greek island of Euboea on Tuesday as fire-fighters tackled raging wildfires.

An Iranian official says just less than 0.01 percent of the country’s population lack access to electricity.