Month: July 2021

Clashes broke out Thursday between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians at the funeral of a Palestinian boy killed the day before in the occupied West Bank, an AFP correspondent reported.

Israel will begin offering a third shot of the Pfizer/Biontech COVID-19 vaccine to people aged over 60, a world first in efforts to slow the spread of the highly contagious … Read More

Lebanon registers 1,104 COVID-19 cases, three deaths in last 24 hours

Though far from ground-breaking by modern cinema terms, a scene in which Jack Whitehall’s character discusses his sexuality with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s Amazon boat captain is a departure for … Read More

Tunisia’s crisis has thrown the fate of its much-lauded young democracy into the balance – and with it that of the Ennahda party, a mainstream Islamist movement that has played … Read More

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that nuclear talks with Iran “cannot go on indefinitely” but that Washington was “fully prepared” to continue negotiations.

Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic became the first player to advance to the gold-medal match of the Olympics women’s singles Thursday, outlasting Kazakh Elena Rybakina 7-6(2) 4-6 6-3 in a topsy-turvy semifinal.

For years, Palestinian farmers have exported herbs to Europe where they have been turned into high-end cosmetics and beauty products.

Gunmen on Thursday killed eight Syrian regime fighters and captured 15 others during the fiercest clashes in the southern province of Daraa since it came under government control, a war … Read More