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The United Arab Emirates, one of the world’s largest gold hubs, is strengthening its defences against financial crime, including new restrictions on the movement of cash and precious metals, the … Read More
Vote tallying in Israel resumed Thursday in the deadlocked parliamentary elections held earlier this week, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor those determined to topple him gaining a clear … Read More
When Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan last received Joe Biden on official business, in August 2016, Erdogan had just sent tanks into Syria.
More than half of Israel’s 9.2 million people have received both doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19, the health ministry said Thursday.
US Ambassador Dorothy Shea urged officials Thursday to set their differences aside and form a new government to rescue the country from its many crises.
The foreign ministers of France, Germany and Italy were in Tripoli to meet their Libyan counterpart Thursday in a show of support for the war-torn country’s newly formed unity government.
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