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Libya’s new government, approved in a “historic” parliamentary vote this week, faces a long list of challenges to unite the country after 10 years of strife.

Kyrie Irving scored 40 points as the red-hot Brooklyn Nets picked up where they left off before the All-Star break by beating the Boston Celtics 121-109 Thursday in New York.

Armenian President Armen Sarkissian was hospitalised with heart failure on Friday and is undergoing treatment, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported, citing local newspaper Hraparak.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman dismissed Mohamed Benten as minister for the haj and umrah, a position with a leading role in organising Islam’s annual pilgrimage, a royal decree carried by … Read More

Mike Winkelmann is now among the top three most valuable living artists in any medium alongside Jeff Koons and David Hockney. The 39-year-old artist said that his JPEG had ‘as … Read More

The World Health Organization said Friday there was no reason to stop using AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine after several countries suspended the rollout over blood clot fears.

Parliament Friday passed a law on a $246 million World Bank loan that will provide a social safety net for thousands of the neediest families.

Parliament Friday convened for a general session to discuss a three-item agenda, with crucial and reformist laws glaringly missing at a critical time for Lebanon.

Lebanon will be receiving 92,000 jabs of the Oxford-AstraZeneca-developed coronavirus vaccine next week, giving a boost to the country’s vaccination campaign

Time seems to have stood still at Papazian’s, an Armenian Egyptian watchmaker whose almost 120-year-old Cairo shop has withstood the decades, surviving political upheavals and urban transformations.