Month: July 2021

The high-level diplomatic meetings touching on the crisis of Lebanon, even the Vatican prayer, are disproportionate to the speed of the collapse hitting the country, leaving the corruption-plagued country at … Read More

Theatregoers and troupes have expressed excitement at being reunited for the 75th edition of the Avignon theatre festival, which rivals Edinburgh for the title of the world’s biggest showcase of … Read More

U.S. tech giants Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Twitter Inc have privately warned the Hong Kong government that they could stop offering their services in the city if authorities … Read More

The poem ruminates upon a specific event – Christian gunmen’s massacre of Palestinians in the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp. More broadly, it uses the allegory of the sun, a force … Read More

Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel remained hospitalized and under observation for a second day Monday because he has been unable to shake a bout of COVID-19 that developed over a … Read More

Is my lipstick protecting me against COVID-19? ranks as one of the more intriguing email queries we have received from a member of the public since we began coordinating the … Read More

More than 1,000 Afghan security personnel fled across the border into Tajikistan on Sunday after Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik border guard service said, while dozens of others … Read More

Israel’s new prime minister spoke for the first time with his Russian counterpart on Monday and the two have agreed to meet soon, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office tweeted.

Hackers were on Monday demanding $70 million in bitcoin in exchange for data stolen during an attack on a US IT company that has shuttered hundreds of Swedish supermarkets.