Category: News

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine carries a small extra risk of rare blood clots with low platelets after the first dose and no extra risk after the second

The United States on Wednesday condemned the reported use of violence by Iranian security forces against people protesting waters shortages, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.

A Palestinian boy wounded by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday has died from his wounds, the Palestinian health ministry said.

Israel is taking seriously allegations that spyware developed by an Israeli company was used against public figures including French President Emmanuel Macron, Israel’s defence minister told his French counterpart during … Read More

Raging wildfires have burned large swathes of Lebanon’s pine forests in the mountainous north of the country, killing at least one firefighter and forcing some residents to flee, the National … Read More

The main hope of a nation, said the Dutch scholar Erasmus, lies in the proper education of its youth.

Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati Wednesday kept up his optimism about forming a new government soon, saying that he received a positive response from President Michel Aoun for his Cabinet proposals.

Jared Kushner, a top adviser to former President Donald Trump, plans to launch an investment firm in coming months, a move that will take him away from politics for the … Read More

Nadine Panayot, curator of the American University of Beirut’s Archaeological Museum, discusses the year-long campaign to restore some of the 72 pieces lost in the port blast of 4 August, … Read More

Lebanon registered 1,224 new coronavirus cases and two deaths the Health Ministry said Wednesday, as the head of the national coronavirus vaccine committee warned that 80 percent of new cases circulating … Read More