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Envoys from World Trade Organization member nations are taking up a proposal to ease patents and other intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines to help developing countries fight the pandemic.
Global law enforcement agencies hacked into an app used by criminals, leading to hundreds of arrests of organized crime figures in 18 countries, officials said on Tuesday.
Nearly 30 celebrities, from singer Katy Perry to footballer David Beckham, called on the G7 Tuesday to share Covid-19 vaccines with poorer countries ahead of a summit in Britain this … Read More
The Lebanese pound plunged Tuesday, trading at LL13,950 against the dollar, as banks and customers awaited a BDL circular to allow depositors to withdraw up to $400 a month
Turkey has offered to guard and run Kabul’s airport after the United States and other NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan
Police arrested 800 people in a huge global sting involving encrypted phones used by criminals that were secretly planted by law enforcement agencies, the EU police agency Europol said Tuesday.
A herd of wild elephants in southwestern China have been captured on camera taking a breather from a 500-kilometre march of chaos that has caused more than $1 million in … Read More
Israel’s legislature will vote on Sunday on approving a new government, the speaker of parliament said on Tuesday, a move that will unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving … Read More
Lebanon recorded the lowest number of coronavirus infections in 11 months with just 71 cases detected in the last 24 hours and six deaths, the Health Ministry said Monday.
The Free Patriotic Movement appears to be backing off from its support for a proposed Cabinet of 24 nonpartisan specialists with no veto power to any side, a political source … Read More