Month: September 2021

Recently appointed British Ambassador to Lebanon Ian Collard has only been in the country two months, but is keen to get stuck in and lend support to the country, at … Read More

The upsurge in violence in Syria, combined with its plummeting economy, is making life increasingly bleak for civilians, United Nations investigators said

From a seven-hour silent opera and productions of Verdi and Puccini influenced by Japanese Noh theatre, to collaborations with songwriters Tom Waits and Lady Gaga, Wilson has spent half a … Read More

Dante is credited with helping create the Italian language by using the Tuscan vernacular of his time – rather than Latin – to write his masterpiece

The United Arab Emirates will pursue an aggressive timetable to negotiate broad economic agreements with eight countries it wants to deepen trade ties with, hoping it can wrap up some … Read More

The deeply personal, black-and-white dramedy captures the late-1960s outbreak of Ulster’s violent ‘Troubles’ from the perspective of Buddy, a nine-year-old boy

Four of the six Palestinians who staged a Hollywood-style escape from an Israeli prison may be back behind bars, but in their home town they are being celebrated as heroes.

Almost 1,400 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are to go on hunger strike in protest at their detention conditions since a jailbreak last week, the Palestinian Authority said Tuesday.