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Iraq received 336,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, the first sent there under the global COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme.

Tugboats and a specialized suction dredger worked Friday to dislodge a giant container ship that has been stuck sideways in Egypt’s Suez Canal for the past three days, blocking a … Read More

Yemen’s Houthi forces on Friday said they launched attacks on Thursday on Saudi Arabia targeting facilities owned by state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco and military sites.

European giants Germany, Italy and England all got off to a winning start in World Cup qualifying, while Zlatan Ibrahimovi? marked his return to international soccer with an assist to … Read More

Lebanon registered 61 new coronavirus-related deaths and 3,560 more cases in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Thursday, as authorities were set to consider tight restrictions for Easter … Read More

Lebanon reports 61 COVID-19 deaths, 3,560 cases in 24 hours

The Biden administration is giving the Palestinians $15 million to aid in their COVID-19 response in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the U.S. State Department said in a statement … Read More

A state high school in northern England apologised Thursday and suspended a teacher as a chanting crowd denounced the use of an image of the Prophet Mohammed in class.

A Vincent Van Gogh painting of a Paris street scene, held in a private collection for over a century, sold for 14 million euros ($16.50 million) at auction on Thursday.

A cargo ship owned by an Israeli company was hit by an Iranian missile in the Arabian Sea earlier on Thursday, Israeli media reported.