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A Palestinian rights activist died Friday shortly after being arrested by Palestinian Authority security forces in the occupied West Bank, a local governor said.

The IMF executive board on Wednesday said it had approved Egypt’s request for a $1.7 billion loan, its final disbursement under a plan aiding its recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.

The owners and insurers of a giant cargo ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March have reached agreement in principle in a compensation dispute with the canal authority, their … Read More

A Pentagon translator was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison for passing the names of US informants in Iraq to a person linked to Hezbollah.

Federal officials said Wednesday they plan to strengthen cautions about a rare side effect of some COVID-19 vaccines – chest pain and heart inflammation, mostly among teenagers and young adults.

With flashing lasers, honking horns and choking smoke from burning tyres, the latest tactics used by Palestinian protesters are dusk till dawn rallies to make life unbearable for Israeli settlers.

The Lebanese pound dropped to a new record low Thursday, trading at 15,600 to the dollar on the black market, as the country’s political and economic crises deepen.

Hezbollah’s mediation attempts to soften MP Gebran Bassil’s tough conditions on the formation of a new government desperately needed to deliver reforms and rescue the crises-hit country from total economic … Read More

The owners of private generators that provide a vital backup to Lebanon’s decrepit power grid warned Wednesday of their own cuts due to lack of fuel as the country’s economic … Read More

Viktor Claesson scored an injury-time winner as Sweden beat Poland 3-2 in Saint Petersburg Wednesday to clinch top spot in Group E and knock their opponents out of Euro 2020.