Month: March 2021

Egypt’s president arrived in Sudan on Saturday, his first visit to the country since a popular uprising led to the military’s overthrow of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir in 2019.

After successful lobbying from trade associations, the caretaker government allowed the premature reopening this week of retail stores, but with Lebanon’s collapsing currency customers are shying away while business owners … Read More

The Lebanese pound tumbled to an unprecedented low against the US dollar on the black market, as people woke up to an exchange rate of LL10,250 to the dollar.

The Governor of the Central Bank Riad Salameh said Friday that he would slap a lawsuit against Bloomberg News and its reporter in Beirut for claiming that the US authorities … Read More

Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, spiritual leader of most of the world’s Shiite Muslims, told Pope Francis in a historic meeting in Iraq on Saturday that the country’s Christians should live … Read More

Missile strikes on makeshift oil refineries in northern Syria killed four people and injured more than 20 others, a war monitor said Saturday.

Myanmar security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to break up a protest in Yangon on Saturday, just hours after a United Nations special envoy called on the Security … Read More

An attempt to get UN Security Council approval for a statement calling for an end to violence in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and to spotlight the millions in need of … Read More

Fierce fighting between Yemeni pro-government forces and Iran-backed Huthi rebels has killed at least 90 combatants on both sides in the past 24 hours, government military sources said Saturday.