Month: March 2021

Who might take the first step to resume compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is not an issue for the United States, a US official said on Friday

The Lebanese pound rose marginally on the black market Saturday, trading at LL12,450 against the dollar.

Armenia’s high court ruled Friday that a criminal case against the nation’s former president over a deadly crackdown on protesters more than a decade ago must be dropped.

Iran and China signed a 25-year “strategic cooperation pact” Saturday in the latest expansion of Beijing’s flagship trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative as the US rivals move closer together.

NASA has given Earth the all clear for the next century from a particularly menacing asteroid.

As Myanmar’s military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade Saturday in the country’s capital, soldiers and police elsewhere reportedly killed dozens of people as they suppressed … Read More

Rail traffic resumed Saturday in southern Egypt, authorities said, a day after two trains collided, killing at least 32 people and injuring 165 others.

An attempt to refloat a megaship blocking Egypt’s Suez Canal failed Friday, the vessel’s managers said, as the crisis forced companies to re-route services from the vital shipping lane around … Read More

Health officials have rolled out more than 510 million coronavirus vaccine doses around the world, but with big gaps between countries the WHO on Friday appealed to richer nations to … Read More