Month: March 2021

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif met Turkish officials in Istanbul on Friday as the two regional powers tried to move past tensions sparked by the deaths of Turkish captives in … Read More

Holders Bayern Munich will face the team they beat in last year’s Champions League final in this season’s quarterfinals after being paired with Paris St Germain in Friday’s draw.

Germany resumed vaccinations with the coronavirus vaccine made by AstraZeneca on Friday, following a recommendation by European regulators that the benefits of the shot outweigh the risks.

A final batch of polls by Israeli media outlets on Friday showed a razor-thin election, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fate likely turning on the performance of small parties and … Read More

US-trained emergency doctor Nour al-Jalbout wanted desperately to serve her fellow Lebanese, but less than two years after returning home she says the country’s catastrophes are forcing her to leave.

British Airways said it was considering selling its headquarters building because of a switch to homeworking during the pandemic means it may no longer need so much office space.

Libya’s new government includes five women, with two in key portfolios — a first for the country nonetheless criticized by activists as insufficient and as not living up to a … Read More

The Lebanese pound rose on the black market again Friday, trading at LL11,400 against the dollar, on hopes a new government would be formed as early as Monday.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have made major advances on Marib city, the government’s final holdout in the country’s north, after hours of clashes, government military sources said on Friday.

Virtual platforms like Netflix and Zoom have emerged as lifelines for a pandemic-hit world forced indoors, but in sanctioned Syria where both websites are blocked, Mohammad Habash feels increasingly disconnected.