Category: News

Street protests broke out overnight over severe water shortages in Iran’s oil-rich southwest, according to Iranian news outlets and videos posted on social media on Friday, as the country faces … Read More

The free-falling Lebanese pound sank to another record low Friday, trading at 23,250 to the dollar, a day after former Prime Minister Saad Hariri gave up trying to form a … Read More

The United States is preparing to impose sanctions on Friday on a number of Chinese officials over Beijing’s crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong, and warn international businesses operating there … Read More

Reuters journalist Danish Siddiqui was killed on Friday while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near a border crossing with Pakistan, an Afghan commander said.

The deadly violence that has rocked South Africa for the past week was planned, President Cyril Ramaphosa said Friday, as authorities said they had identified 12 suspects.

The head of the World Health Organisation said on Thursday that investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in China were being hampered by the lack of raw data … Read More

The events of the last tumultuous 20 months in Lebanon can be told through the birth, growth, and end of one coffee shop in Mar Mikhael whose lifespan became a … Read More

U.S. President Joe Biden has few real diplomatic alternatives to trying to persuade Iran to resume compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal and all appear harder to achieve, current and … Read More

French President Emmanuel Macron will host a new international conference on Lebanon next month on the first anniversary of the Beirut Port explosion.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said Thursday his meeting with President Michel Aoun showed that the two main hurdles that have stalled the formation of a new government for months still … Read More