Month: March 2021

Hariri arrives at Baabda Palace for crucial Cabinet talks with Aoun

Battered by punishing US sanctions and the Covid-19 pandemic, Iranians are readying for a gloomy Nowruz, the traditional Persian New Year festival that is at the heart of national culture.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri arrived at Baabda Palace Thursday for crucial talks with President Michel Aoun on the formation of a new government.

Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen in Yemen killed four civilians and eight pro-government soldiers in a dawn attack Thursday, launching grenades and firing machine guns on a southern checkpoint, an official said.

Pharmacies went on strike and petrol stations rationed scarce fuel on Thursday across Lebanon as public anger over an accelerating economic collapse intensified with little sign of an end to … Read More

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday announced a snap parliamentary election to be held June 20 in an effort to defuse a political crisis sparked by last year’s war … Read More