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Novak Djokovic set up a quarterfinal with Japan’s Kei Nishikori at the Tokyo Olympics Wednesday as gold medal rival Daniil Medvedev struggled with the heat, even asking the chair umpire … Read More
Afghanistan would become a “pariah state” if the Taliban take control of the country by force, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday.
Mother gave birth to her first child under torchlight in the corridor of the destroyed St. George Hospital University Medical Center.
Tunisia’s judiciary has opened an investigation into three political parties, including Ennahda and Heart of Tunisia, on suspicion of receiving foreign funds during the 2019 election campaign, a judicial source … Read More
The private equity firm that owns NSO, the Israeli spyware company at the heart of the Pegasus scandal, is being liquidated, a source close to the company told AFP on … Read More
France’s financial crimes unit said Tuesday it had charged prominent rightwinger Rachida Dati, a former cabinet minister and close ally of ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, over her dealings with disgraced former … Read More
A Palestinian man was killed late Tuesday in Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank, the scene of clashes between protesters and Israeli forces for weeks, Palestinian officials said.
Senior U.S. diplomats are holding talks in the Gulf region in a renewed push for a ceasefire in Yemen as fierce ground battles spread and the Iran-aligned Houthi group resumed … Read More
A year after the cataclysmic Beirut port blast, Shady Rizk’s doctors are still plucking glass from his body.
The Lebanese pound rose on the black market Wednesday, trading at LL18,050 against the dollar, on renewed hope that a new government could be formed soon.