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The Lebanese pound dropped to a new record low Thursday, trading at 15,600 to the dollar on the black market, as the country’s political and economic crises deepen.

Hezbollah’s mediation attempts to soften MP Gebran Bassil’s tough conditions on the formation of a new government desperately needed to deliver reforms and rescue the crises-hit country from total economic … Read More

The owners of private generators that provide a vital backup to Lebanon’s decrepit power grid warned Wednesday of their own cuts due to lack of fuel as the country’s economic … Read More

Viktor Claesson scored an injury-time winner as Sweden beat Poland 3-2 in Saint Petersburg Wednesday to clinch top spot in Group E and knock their opponents out of Euro 2020.

A new poll on American attitudes toward a core conflict in the Middle East finds about half of Democrats want the U.

The UN General Assembly condemned the nearly 60-year-old US embargo on Cuba for the 29th year in a row Wednesday, calling for it to end by a vote of 184 … Read More

Filling up cars at a petrol station in Lebanon was never Adel Mostafa’s dream job, but it paid the 44-year-old Egyptian enough to feed his family and was relatively trouble-free … Read More

Spain finally have lift-off at Euro 2020 after a 5-0 hammering of Slovakia on Wednesday sent them through as runners-up in Group E, with Croatia their opponents in the last … Read More

Shunned by rich countries and failing to meet the needs of the poorest, a programme co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) for fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is planning … Read More

Starring Milia Ayache, the Zoom-based performance, running June 24 to 29 and produced by RealTime, is an adaptation of Molly Rice’s 2003 play of the same name, now tailored to … Read More