Month: May 2021

Egypt’s intelligence chief met Hamas leaders in Gaza on Monday to try to bolster a ceasefire between the Palestinian militant group and Israel and to discuss reconstruction plans following the … Read More

If you follow the political process surrounding the formation of a new Cabinet, you would think Lebanese democracy is at work.

Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed a tax treaty on Monday, Israel’s Finance Ministry said, describing the move as a spur to business development between the countries after they … Read More

The judge investigating the Beirut Port explosion has received a very important new report from French technical experts, a judicial source told The Daily Star Monday.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri Monday met with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri as part of a flurry of intensified activity aimed at breaking the Cabinet formation deadlock, now in its ninth … Read More

Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday that the Islamic republic is continuing talks with regional rival Saudi Arabia in a “good atmosphere,” in the hope of reaching a “common understanding”.