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Palestinians on Wednesday received their first delivery of coronavirus vaccine via the UN’s Covax programme supporting poorer nations, an AFP journalist in the occupied West Bank reported.

Pope Francis on Wednesday appealed for bloodshed to end and dialogue to prevail in Myanmar, saying he symbolically kneels in that country’s streets, where protests against the military takeover were … Read More

Lebanon is battling its worst economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.

Lebanon’s worst economic downturn in decades has pushed a battered population to the brink with no solution in sight as the country’s barons wrangle over forming a new government.

The pound retreated against the dollar on the black market Wednesday, trading at LL14,100, as the standard of living in the country continues to deterioriate.

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Wednesday visited neighbouring Libya, where a UN-backed unity government is seeking to restore stability after a decade of violent turmoil.

About 10.3 million people were displaced by climate change-induced events such as flooding and droughts in the last six months, the majority of them in Asia, a humanitarian organisation said … Read More

Egyptian troops have demolished more than 12,300 buildings in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013 in a campaign of forced evictions that likely amount to “war crimes”, Human Rights Watch said … Read More

The emergence of the Earth’s first living organisms billions of years ago may have been facilitated by a bolt out of the blue – or perhaps a quintillion of them.

Daraa was an impoverished, neglected provincial city in the farmlands of Syria’s south, an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim backwater far from the more cosmopolitan cities of the country’s heartland.