Category: News

Armenia will announce on Thursday or Friday that it is to hold a snap parliamentary election, the Interfax news agency quoted a government minister as saying, amid a political crisis … Read More

Waiting for her COVID-19 vaccination in a Gaza clinic, Leena Al-Tourk, 28, a Palestinian lawyer, recalled the social pressure she faced in the conservative enclave over getting the shot.

The Lebanese pound rose on the black market Thursday, trading at LL12,950 against the dollar, on reports the country’s top two leaders would meet soon

Soldiers are suffering and they’re hungry, were the frank words of Gen. Joseph Aoun, spoken last week in a meeting addressing local developments.

Already displaced once in Yemen’s grinding civil war, Mohammed Ali Saleh fled with his pregnant wife and their three children to central Marib province last year to seek refuge in … Read More

When Jordan sabotaged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s triumphant pre-election trip to the United Arab Emirates last week, analysts say, it was sending him a message: stop marginalising us.

Myanmar faced growing isolation on Thursday with increasingly limited internet services and its last private newspaper ceasing publication as the military built its case against ousted elected leader Aung San … Read More

Egyptian political activist Sanaa Seif was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday for spreading “false information” relating to Covid-19, her sister and lawyers said.

After a yearlong investigation, Iran’s civil aviation agency on Wednesday released its final report on the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed 176 people last year, revealing no … Read More