Month: September 2021

A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops Friday when clashes broke out on the sidelines of a demonstration in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday urged the new Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati to undertake “urgent” reforms to help his crisis-wracked country, as the two men met for the … Read More

More than 140 rebels and pro-government troops have been killed this week as fighting intensifies for Yemen’s strategic northern city of Marib, military and medical sources told AFP Friday.

The two 40-meter-high paintings on the sides of buildings in the city center were spurred by the artist’s desire to stir debate over the river’s decline. Hit by a lack … Read More

At least 350,209 people have been killed in the decade-old war in Syria, the United Nations human rights office said on Friday in its first report since 2014 on the … Read More

These bone tools had been ‘intentionally shaped for specific tasks that included leather and fur working’, the team wrote in a study published in the journal iScience. The discovery could … Read More

President Michel Aoun told the United Nations General Assembly on Friday big challenges awaited his country’s new government and asked the international community for funding to revive its crisis-stricken economy.

Music has been crucial to the James Bond phenomenon since the twanging guitar of John Barry’s theme first appeared in ‘Dr No’ in 1962. The songs written for each title … Read More