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Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri is set to meet with President Michel Aoun Wednesday amid wide expectations he will present him with a new Cabinet lineup in a last-ditch attempt to … Read More
Lebanon registers 494 COVID-19 cases, two deaths in last 24 hours
President Joe Biden on Tuesday will speak in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the US constitution, to warn that Republican maneuvering is putting democracy in the worst peril since the Civil … Read More
The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday called for those behind “massive scale” enforced disappearances in Syria over the past decade of conflict to be held accountable.
The death toll from a fire that tore through a coronavirus hospital in southern Iraq rose to 92, health officials said on Tuesday, as authorities faced accusations of negligence from … Read More
Yemen’s currency, the riyal, has sunk to historic lows in recent days, in a new threat to the war-torn country which is already on the brink of famine.
A French firm aims to turn tonnes of rotting grain at Beirut’s devastated port into compost, the company said Tuesday, nearly a year after Lebanon’s worst peacetime disaster ravaged its … Read More
Panah Panahi’s ‘Hit the Road’ premiered in Cannes’ Director’s Fortnight – the same section in which Jafar Panahi presented his classic ‘The White Balloon’ in 1995, taking home Cannes’ Prix … Read More
Bangladesh will lift its nationwide coronavirus lockdown for the country’s second-biggest religious festival, the government said Tuesday, even as new infections soared to record levels.
A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander urged Iraqi Shi’ite militias to step up attacks on U.