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Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday appointed Ridha Garsalaoui, a former national security adviser to the presidency, to run the Interior Ministry and pledged to protect rights and freedoms.

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man in clashes that erupted on Thursday during the funeral of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead by soldiers a day earlier, the Palestinian health … Read More

Hezbollah is mediating with the Free Patriotic Movement in a bid to accelerate the formation of a new government desperately needed to cope with a series of crises, including an … Read More

The World Health Organization said Thursday the Delta variant has led to a “surge” in coronavirus outbreaks triggering a “fourth wave” in the Eastern Mediterranean region, where vaccination rates remain … Read More

More than a quarter of the country’s eligible population are now fully inoculated.

Lebanon registers 1,104 COVID-19 cases, three deaths in last 24 hours

Israel will begin offering a third shot of the Pfizer/Biontech COVID-19 vaccine to people aged over 60, a world first in efforts to slow the spread of the highly contagious … Read More

Clashes broke out Thursday between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians at the funeral of a Palestinian boy killed the day before in the occupied West Bank, an AFP correspondent reported.

Tunisia’s crisis has thrown the fate of its much-lauded young democracy into the balance – and with it that of the Ennahda party, a mainstream Islamist movement that has played … Read More

Though far from ground-breaking by modern cinema terms, a scene in which Jack Whitehall’s character discusses his sexuality with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s Amazon boat captain is a departure for … Read More