Category: News

Hosts Japan displayed nerves of steel as they edged out New Zealand 4-2 in a penalty shootout to reach the men’s Olympic soccer semifinals Saturday, while Spain survived a scare … Read More

State-owned Electricité du Liban warned Saturday that Lebanon may face total blackout very soon if the authorities did not provide fresh U.S. dollars to buy fuel oil for power plants, … Read More

Afghan and Taliban forces clashed again on the outskirts of Herat Saturday, a day after a police guard was killed when a United Nations compound in the western city came … Read More

Days after a raging wildfire in southern Turkey drove his family from the home they lived in for four decades, Mehmet Demir returned Saturday to discover a burnt-out building, charred … Read More

A super cruise ship has departed Saudi Arabia for the first time, setting sail for regional waters as the kingdom seeks to expand its tourism industry and diversify its oil-dependant … Read More

Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles further slashed her Tokyo Olympics schedule over a crippling mental block Saturday as a raging Novak Djokovic missed out on a tennis medal.

British health authorities have urged more pregnant women to get coronavirus jabs after a national study found the Delta variant appeared to increase their risk of severe symptoms.

Tunisian security forces Friday arrested a member of parliament who condemned President Kais Saied’s power grab as a “military coup”, his party said.

Former President Donald Trump helped raise more than $56 million from online donors during the first six months of this year, a campaign finance disclosure showed on Friday in a … Read More

The Lebanese pound dropped sharply on the black market Saturday, trading at LL19,100 against the dollar, exchange dealers said, knocking off nearly LL1,000 in value in 24 hours.