Month: May 2021

Five people protesting on the Lebanon-Israel border against air strikes in Gaza were wounded Tuesday by tear gas cannisters and smoke bombs fired by Israeli forces, Lebanese state media said.

Israeli troops were targeted by gunfire in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the army said, as the Palestinian health ministry said a man was killed in a separate shooting.

The stark contrast between finery and brutality, wealth and inhumanity is a recurring pattern in ‘Slavery,’ the exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum that unflinching examines the history of Dutch involvement in … Read More

Lebanese officials Tuesday scrambled to stave off the grave consequences of a new strain with Arab Gulf states following critical comments by the caretaker foreign minister who accused these states … Read More

U.N.-run schools in Gaza look very little like places of learning these days in the midst of a conflict between Israel and Palestinian armed groups that is in its second … Read More

The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday it would offer a booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine from China’s state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm for those who have already received two doses.

Lebanon recorded 600 new coronavirus cases with deaths dropping to 10 over the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported Tuesday.