Month: July 2021

President Michel Aoun met with the caretaker interior minister Saturday to address the start of wildfire season in Lebanon and urged authorities to prepare, the National News Agency reported

British health minister Sajid Javid Saturday said he had tested positive for COVID-19, but that his symptoms were mild and he had had two doses of vaccine against the disease.

Saudi Arabia has officially allowed businesses to remain open during the five daily Muslim prayers, a highly sensitive reform in a kingdom which is trying to shake off its austere … Read More

Ten Belgian children and six mothers have been recovered from a prison camp for captured jihadists in Syria and flown home to Belgium, the government said Saturday.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Saturday the main impediment to investment in the country was money stuck in ailing Lebanese banks.

Tokyo Olympics organisers on Saturday reported the first case of COVID-19 at the athletes’ village, along with 14 other new cases connected to the Games which begin next week, raising … Read More

The Lebanese pound gained Saturday, trading at 22,300 to the dollar on the black market, after a steep tumble Friday following the resignation of ex-prime minister designate Saad Hariri.

Pilgrims began arriving in the holy city of Mecca on Saturday for the second downsized hajj staged during the coronavirus pandemic, circling Islam’s holiest site in masks and on distanced … Read More

Representatives of the Afghan government and the Taliban met in Doha for talks on Saturday, AFP correspondents said, as violence rages in the country with foreign forces almost entirely withdrawn.