Month: June 2021

The freefalling Lebanese pound lost more value Friday, trading at a record low of 16,300 to the dollar on the black market.

The government also revealed Wednesday it intends to sell Channel 4, a publicly-owned but commercially-funded television broadcaster that draws 90 percent of its income from advertising. Critics claim the decision … Read More

Lebanon reported 137 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Thursday.

Hundreds of fire and rescue workers scoured through tons of rubble on Thursday after a 12-story oceanfront residential building partially collapsed in southern Florida, with at least one person dead … Read More

In the absence of any contacts among top officials to break the monthslong Cabinet deadlock, attention shifted Thursday to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah in the hope that he would … Read More

The United States on Thursday called on the international community, especially regional countries, to fulfill their pledges to increase funding for humanitarian assistance to Yemen and warned that aid programs … Read More

Atlanta’s Trae Young scored a career playoff high 48 points and the Hawks edged host Milwaukee 116-113 in Wednesday’s opening game of the NBA Eastern Conference finals.

Hundreds of angry Palestinians marched towards Mahmoud Abbas’s presidential compound in the occupied West Bank on Thursday to demand he resign over the death of a well-known activist following his … Read More