Category: News

UEFA has said the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic meant plans to use VAR in the European 2022 World Cup qualifiers had to be abandoned after a weekend in which … Read More

France is fond of naming institutions after past presidents. The Centre Pompidou is France’s foremost modern art museum, while the National Library is dedicated to Mitterrand. The Musee du Quai … Read More

Formula One’s ‘racing gods’ smiled on Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes in Sunday’s Bahrain season-opener but round one of what promises to be a far bigger fight showed Red Bull’s Max … Read More

Lebanon’s prosecutor general Ghassan Oueidat on Monday ordered a probe into the alleged torture of more than 20 Syrians in custody following a report by Amnesty International, state media reported.

The EU’s home affairs commissioner said on Monday that Turkey should “urgently” resume accepting hundreds of migrants from Greece, days before EU chiefs were due to hold talks in Ankara.

Iran pardoned or cut the sentences of over 1,800 prisoners to mark a religious festival celebrated on Monday, including the rare release of 100 detainees held in connection to state … Read More

Shipping traffic through Egypt’s Suez Canal has resumed after a giant container ship which had been blocking the busy waterway for almost a week was refloated, the canal authority said.

Several French institutions are contributing to the restoration of a number of heritage buildings damaged in the Aug. 4 blast, and Ambassador Anne Grillo announced that, in cooperation with the … Read More

Chemical material detected in the south Lebanon town of Zahrani were officially handed over Monday to the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission, to be used for research and scientific purposes, as … Read More

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri visited the Constitutional Council Monday and presented its head Judge Tanous Meshleb with a statement on financial disclosure, based on the Illicit Enrichment Law No.189 (of … Read More