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As members of the oil cartel OPEC and its allies meet this week to discuss adjusting output, analysts expect old tensions between oil producer giants to flare up again.

The pound hit a record low of LL9,850 against the dollar Tuesday, as the country’s ailing banks were buying the greenback to meet BDL liquidity requirements.

Morocco has suspended contacts with the German embassy, the foreign minister announced in a letter published late Monday, in what officials said was a protest over Berlin’s stance on the … Read More

Lebanon needs to vaccinate 30,000 people per day to reach herd immunity target in one year, Dr. Firass Abiad, the leading expert on COVID-19 said Tuesday.

Anger caught in Mari Hovhannisyan’s throat as she demanded Armenia’s leadership resign, more than three months on from a disastrous war that saw swathes of territory lost to Azerbaijan.

Lawyers representing survivors of a chemical weapons attack in 2013 in Syria have filed a criminal complaint against Syrian officials whom they blame for the deaths of hundreds of civilians … Read More

The Lebanese pound hit a new record low of LL9,850 against the dollar on the black market Tuesday, as the country’s political crisis deepened.

As Islamic State fighters advanced across northern Iraq in 2014, Mazen Shemes’ nine-year-old son was killed by a mortar.

An American father and son accused of helping former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan while awaiting trial on financial charges were handed over to Japanese prosecutors … Read More

Gunmen have freed all 279 girls kidnapped from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, the governor in Zamfara state said Tuesday.