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Lebanon registers 539 COVID-19 cases, one death in last 24 hours

Lebanon recorded 539 new coronavirus cases and one death in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported Wednesday, while hundreds of thousands more vaccines are expected to arrive by … Read More

Inspired by her late father’s career, Mona decided to join the military and the first group of Saudi women soldiers to work in Islam’s holiest sites, where they are helping … Read More

Britain on Wednesday demanded a new deal from the European Union to govern post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland, saying it already had cause to step away from parts of the … Read More

Gold medal favorites the United States began their bid for a fifth women’s Olympic football title with an embarrassing 3-0 loss to Sweden, while Team GB kicked off their campaign … Read More

The Japanese women’s softball team got the Tokyo 2020 Olympics off to a winning start for the hosts Wednesday, kicking off a pandemic-postponed Games that the World Health Organization says … Read More

A dozen people died in a flooded subway line in Zhengzhou, the capital of China’s central Henan province, after the city was drenched by what weather watchers said were the … Read More

Families in Lebanon are now spending five times the minimum wage on food alone, a report found Wednesday, as inflation caused by the country’s worst-ever economic crisis continues to soar.

“Rioters” shot dead a police officer in southwestern Iran, state media reported Wednesday, following nearly a week of protests against water shortages in the drought-hit region.

The Taliban said Wednesday they would fight only to defend themselves over the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, but stopped short of declaring a formal ceasefire.