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Discussions between Iran and Saudi Arabia are on the right track but it will take more time to restore bilateral ties, Iran’s foreign minister said in Beirut Friday.

An apparent bomb attack on worshippers at a Shiite mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz killed at least 50 people Friday, in the bloodiest assault since US forces left … Read More

Hockney’s ‘A Year in Normandy’, that opens at Paris’ Musee de L’Orangerie October 13, features a 91-metre-long frieze made up from some of the 220 pictures he created during the … Read More

Three former ministers filed lawsuits Friday requesting the replacement of Judge Tarek Bitar as head of the investigation into last year’s Beirut Port blast, days before he was scheduled to … Read More

Facebook and its Instagram platform have wrongfully removed and suppressed content by Palestinians, including about abuses during Israeli-Palestinian violence this year, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.

The Central Bank denied Friday a Swiss newspaper report that alleged the International Monetary Fund had removed information from a 2016 report on the country at the request of Gov. … Read More

The novelist was born on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar, off the coast of east Africa, in 1948, and began writing after moving to England as a refugee, where … Read More

The United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s biggest oil exporters, has launched a “strategic initiative” targeting carbon neutrality by 2050, ahead of a UN climate conference late this month.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah described Iran as a “sincere ally and loyal friend” during talks with Iranian foreign minister in Beirut, the group said in a statement Friday.

The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia for their fight for freedom of expression in their countries.