Month: September 2021

Lebanon registered 857 coronavirus cases and four deaths in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has no plans to meet with his new Iranian counterpart next week at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in … Read More

The United States sanctioned four individuals it said had ties to the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah, according to a post on the Treasury website

Erected in a business park alongside a statue of Apple founder Steve Jobs, the sculpture was the brainchild of entrepreneur and bitcoin journalist, Andras Gyorfi. It was financed by four … Read More

The director-general of the WHO has said he is “deeply concerned” at how Lebanon’s economic crisis is impacting health care

Iran joined a rapidly expanding central Asian security body led by Russia and China on Friday, calling on the countries in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to help it form a … Read More

Workers in the Afghan capital Kabul replaced signs for the country’s women’s ministry with those for the Taliban’s moral police on Friday, as female former employees of the department said … Read More

Tunisia and Libya opened their shared border on Friday, two months after it was closed as Tunisia’s coronavirus caseload soared

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Friday on more Arab nations to recognize Israel as he met four ministers on the anniversary of a normalization accord.