Month: September 2021

The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday cut the number of places where face masks must be worn as it gears up to open the Expo 2020 world fair.

Morocco’s designated prime minister, Aziz Akhannouch, said on Wednesday the three biggest winners of this month’s parliamentary election, the liberal RNI and PAM parties and the conservative Istiqlal, had agreed … Read More

Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan militant who was behind some of the biggest attacks of the 1970s and 1980s, appeared in a Paris court Wednesday in an attempt to have … Read More

President Joe Biden will announce Wednesday the US plans to donate an additional 500 million Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccines to the rest of the world, bringing its total commitment to 1.

Gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons on a car carrying a senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, in what officials said was an attempted assassination in response … Read More

Saudi Arabia condemned the failed coup attempt in Sudan, Saudi-owned and Dubai-based Al-Arabiya TV reported on Wednesday, citing the country’s foreign ministry.

Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday removed $1 billion in military funding for Israel from legislation to fund the U.S. government after objections from liberals in the House of Representatives, but party … Read More

Lebanon’s Energy Ministry raised gasoline prices for the second time in less than a week, effectively ending its fuel subsidy.

The Lebanese pound fell again on the black market Wednesday, trading at 15,150 to the dollar, exchange dealers said.

Lebanon’s annual rate of inflation has risen to the highest of all countries tracked by Bloomberg, surpassing Zimbabwe and Venezuela, as the financial meltdown in the country worsens.