Category: News

Working from his one-room apartment near Paris airport, Jerome Rodrigues has been trying to re-invigorate a Yellow Vest protest movement that two years ago challenged President Emmanuel Macron’s rule then … Read More

France’s bid for men’s Olympic football glory got off to a nightmare start with a 4-1 defeat by Mexico Thursday, while a strong Spain side stuttered to a goalless stalemate … Read More

Spain’s Olympic men’s football campaign got off to a rocky start after they lost two players to injury in a goalless draw with Egypt, while Mexico stunned France 4-1 as … Read More

Israel has established a commission to review allegations that NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus phone surveillance software was misused, the head of parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee said Thursday.

Madagascan authorities arrested several people, including foreign nationals, on Tuesday on suspicion of plotting to kill the president, the attorney general said.

Iran has opened its first oil terminal in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday, to allow Tehran to avoid using the Strait of Hormuz shipping … Read More

Saudi Arabia has dismissed as “baseless” allegations that it used Israeli-supplied Pegasus malware to spy on journalists and human rights activists.

On the eve of the Tokyo Games, organizers fired the director of the opening ceremony over a joke he made about the Holocaust, while media reported former Prime Minister Shinzo … Read More

The Lebanese pound was little changed on the black market Thursday, trading at LL22,400 against the dollar.

The Syrian army shelled the Idlib region Thursday killing seven civilians, three of them children, in its third deadly bombardment of the rebel bastion in a week, an anti-regime monitor … Read More