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Lebanon registered 29 more coronavirus deaths and 1,001 new cases, the Health Ministry said Friday, as the country prepared to go into a three-day lockdown.

Lebanon records 29 more coronavirus deaths, 1,001 new cases

Israel on Friday was burying victims of a stampede at a Jewish pilgrimage site that killed at least 45 people, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised an investigation into one … Read More

France’s foreign minister will travel to Lebanon next week to discuss the political crisis with senior officials, two sources aware of the matter said on Friday.

Curators Nour Ouayda and Rami el Sabbagh discuss their selection of Lebanese shorts streaming at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, with Goethe-Institut support

The film is based on Sharrock’s own experience of studying and living in Arab countries, visiting refugee camps, and rooted in the fact that asylum-seekers are often sent to remote … Read More

The vast majority of the 501,574 items were antiquities, archives or books, but the total also included 17,596 archaeological and palaeontological works taken from illicit digs. More than 1,500 counterfeit … Read More

Pfizer/BioNTech said Friday they have asked European regulators to authorise their Covid-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds, a move seen as a crucial step toward achieving herd immunity.

Lebanon’s public prosecutor has launched an investigation into Central Bank governor Riad Salameh, a judicial source said, after a Swiss legal request alleged that more than $300 million had been … Read More

Lebanon and Israel will resume US-mediated talks on their disputed maritime border on May 4, the US State Department said Friday.