Month: April 2021

Shortly after Britain left the European Union, finance minister Rishi Sunak pledged a series of measures he dubbed “Big Bang 2.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Turkish and Greek Cypriot parties to “be creative” on Tuesday, hours before informal talks were set to begin on the island’s future after a … Read More

For historian Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, who has written a book on the slave trade, Napoleon’s decision to reinstate slavery in 1802, less than a decade after it was abolished under the … Read More

The French playwright’s works have now been performed in more than 40 countries, and won awards from Tokyo to New York, but it is with the film version of ‘The … Read More

The Lebanese pound Tuesday slightly fell against the dollar on the black market, trading at LL12,300 after a stable week.

Black smoke rose Tuesday off the Saudi port of Yanbu after an undescribed “incident” in the Red Sea, authorities said, while one private security firm warned of a possible attack … Read More

Security forces announced the detention of a suspected drug smuggler at Beirut airport on Tuesday, a day after Lebanon pledged to crack down on the crime to persuade Saudi Arabia … Read More