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The Lebanese pound rose on the black market for a second day in a row Thursday, trading at LL12,900 agaist the dollar, as the Central Bank prepared to launch an … Read More

British-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on Wednesday revised down by three percentage points the effectiveness of its Covid vaccine after American authorities raised concerns that results reported from its US trial were … Read More

North Korea launched two suspected ballistic missiles into the sea near Japan on Thursday, underscoring steady progress in its weapons programme and ramping up pressure on the new U.S. administration … Read More

A senior Saudi official denied on Thursday he had threatened to harm the human rights expert who led the U.N. investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after the … Read More

The Suez Canal temporarily suspended traffic on Thursday as efforts to dislodge a 400 m (430 yard) long container vessel that has blocked the waterway continued for a third day, … Read More

The Netherlands slumped to a dramatic 4-2 loss to Turkey in Istanbul in their opening 2022 World Cup qualifier as Burak Yilmaz scored a hat-trick Wednesday.

Lebanon registered 53 new coronavirus-related deaths and 3,856 more cases in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Wednesday, as the country received its first batch of the Oxford-AstraZeneca … Read More

Lebanon registers 3,856 new coronavirus cases, 53 deaths

With the Cabinet formation process at a dead end, attention shifted Wednesday to a flurry of Arab and foreign diplomatic activity aimed at defusing the crisis that has thrown the … Read More

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Wednesday he hopes to visit Libya in early April in a show of support for the new UN-backed unity government.