Month: July 2021

Lebanon on Monday allowed local industrialists to import diesel directly to operate their factories that count on this commodity to stay in business.

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Monday he will travel to Morocco at the end of July, the first official visit by Israel’s top diplomat to the Arab state … Read More

President Michel Aoun will hold binding parliamentary consultations to choose a new prime minister-designate on July 26, the presidency said Monday.

Ghassan Salhab discusses his new film, the follow-up to ‘The Mountain’ and ‘The Valley,’ which was completed just as the first wave of COVID-19 landed in Lebanon, and will premiere … Read More

The Biden administration has transferred its first detainee out of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon said Monday, repatriating a Moroccan man whose release had been advised in 2016 … Read More

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said Turkey was planning talks with the Taliban over the hardline Islamist group’s refusal to let Ankara run Kabul airport after US troops withdraw … Read More

Ethiopia has attained its second-year target for filling a mega-dam on the Blue Nile River that has stoked tensions with downstream countries Egypt and Sudan, an official told AFP on … Read More

An American father-son duo who helped former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn flee Japan were sentenced to jail by a Tokyo court on Monday, one for two years and the other … Read More

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that the Taliban should “end the occupation of their brothers’ soil”, and played down a warning from the militant group of consequences if … Read More