Month: June 2021

Lebanon enjoyed a high turnout at the Pfizer vaccine ‘marathon’ Saturday, as the Health Ministry reported over 13,516 jabs had been administered by mid-afternoon.

Sri Lanka is seeking $40 million in damages from the operator of a ship that left massive pollution when it caught fire off the country’s west coast, officials said Saturday.

The outgoing chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear program and a military scientist.

Britain and the European Union showed little sign of defusing a post-Brexit trade dispute on Saturday, with both sides repeating their opposing positions even after US President Joe Biden encouraged … Read More

Algeria held parliamentary elections Saturday that the ruling elite hopes will turn a page on political unrest amid a crackdown on dissent, but which many voters were expected to ignore.

Iraq announced Saturday it has arrested two generals on suspicion of taking bribes to waive customs duties, a practice estimated to cost the state $6.

The former speaker of the Iranian parliament Ali Larijani demanded on Saturday an explanation from an election watchdog on why he was barred from running in next week’s presidential vote.

The Lebanese pound dropped on the black market for the fifth consecutive day Saturday, trading at LL14,900 against the dollar, as gasoline and medicine shortages cause havoc across the country.