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The UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees announced Friday it was seeking $800 million at a donor conference scheduled for November in Brussels.

US fatalities from Covid-19 surpassed 700,000 on Friday, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University, a toll roughly equivalent to the population of the nation’s capital Washington.

Qataris began voting in the emirate’s first legislative election Saturday in a symbolic nod to democracy that analysts say will not lead to power shifting away from the ruling family.

Two rival Libyan factions wound up a meeting in Morocco without any sign of agreement on a disputed electoral law, ahead of polls scheduled for December 24.

The Lebanese pound fell on the black market Saturday, trading at LL17,450 to the dollar, exchange dealers said.

The United Nations held a news conference Friday at the ESCWA offices to outline their Emergency Response Plan for Lebanon, seeking to provide essential support to 1.1 million of Lebanon’s … Read More

Dubai has created a “new city” for Expo 2020 that will exist for decades, the head of the event told AFP, promising most of the vast site will remain in … Read More

Johansson argued that Disney’s distribution strategy was a breach of contract, costing her millions of dollars. Disney derided her ‘callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the … Read More

Lebanon registered 513 new coronavirus cases and eight deaths in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported Friday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks in Paris next week in a new bid to ease tensions after French anger over a submarine contract, the State Department … Read More