Month: March 2021

Robert Lewandowski will miss Poland’s 2022 World Cup qualifier against England with a right knee injury, the Polish Football Association said Monday.

World oil prices eased on Monday as traffic resumed on the Suez Canal after a massive container ship blocking the waterway was freed.

‘We have never planned for [a regime-critical photo by dissident artist Ai Weiwei] to be included in the opening exhibition, so there is no question that we have retracted it, … Read More

Iran pardoned or cut the sentences of over 1,800 prisoners to mark a religious festival celebrated on Monday, including the rare release of 100 detainees held in connection to state … Read More

The EU’s home affairs commissioner said on Monday that Turkey should “urgently” resume accepting hundreds of migrants from Greece, days before EU chiefs were due to hold talks in Ankara.

Lebanon’s prosecutor general Ghassan Oueidat on Monday ordered a probe into the alleged torture of more than 20 Syrians in custody following a report by Amnesty International, state media reported.

Shipping traffic through Egypt’s Suez Canal has resumed after a giant container ship which had been blocking the busy waterway for almost a week was refloated, the canal authority said.

Chemical material detected in the south Lebanon town of Zahrani were officially handed over Monday to the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission, to be used for research and scientific purposes, as … Read More

Several French institutions are contributing to the restoration of a number of heritage buildings damaged in the Aug. 4 blast, and Ambassador Anne Grillo announced that, in cooperation with the … Read More

The Central Bank’s new platform aimed at regulating the uncontrolled exchange rate in the black market may need massive cash injection from the commercial banks or part of BDL’s foreign … Read More