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Employers can in principle ban staff from wearing headscarves in the workplace, an EU court ruled Thursday in two cases brought by Muslim women working in Germany.

Zakaria Ghalayeeni has driven a taxi around Beirut since he was 18-years-old and at 76 he is still driving to earn a meagre living through what he says are Lebanon’s … Read More

Shelling by Syrian regime forces Thursday killed nine civilians, including three children, in the Idlib region of northwest Syria, a war monitor reported.

The Israeli army said Thursday it had arrested between 20 and 30 Palestinian students in the occupied West Bank it accused of being “terror operatives” of Islamist group Hamas.

Iran is not prepared to resume negotiations on coming back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal until Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi’s administration has begun, a diplomatic source said on … Read More

An Afghan government negotiator on Thursday said the Taliban had offered a three-month ceasefire in exchange for the release of 7,000 insurgent prisoners, as the militant group continues a sweeping … Read More

The populist Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Thursday he will not take part in Iraqi elections in October and is withdrawing support both from the current government and the … Read More

Saudi Arabia will host another downsized hajj from Saturday, with only residents fully vaccinated against the coronavirus permitted and overseas Muslim pilgrims barred for a second year.

The Lebanese pound hit yet another record low Thursday, trading at 19,650 to the dollar, as fears grew the country’s political crisis could take a devastating turn to the worse … Read More

Rights group Amnesty International Wednesday urged Lebanon to lift the immunity of officials summoned in the Beirut port blast probe, warning not doing so would be an “obstruction of justice”.