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Enacting financial reforms, increasing electricity supplies and supporting poor families are at the top of the government’s priorities, Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Wednesday.

Jordan said Wednesday that it was set to provide Lebanon with its electricity needs through Syrian territories.

Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra has told France to “decolonise” its history, in the latest verbal broadside between Paris and a former colony in Africa.

Jordan set to supply Lebanon with electricity through Syria

Fearing a crackdown on music by the country’s new leaders, a total 101 members of Afghanistan’s top musical institute landed in Doha. The founder of the Afghanistan National Institute of … Read More

Thousands of Gazans applied Wednesday for work permits for Israel, which has been reopening its gates to labourers from the Palestinian enclave following the latest war in May.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in Moscow Wednesday that he expects negotiations on the Iran nuclear deal to restart in Austria soon.

Iran said Wednesday that it has “serious concerns” about Israel’s presence in the Caucasus, as tensions mount between Iran and Azerbaijan over Baku’s ties with Israel, a major arms supplier.

The United Arab Emirates declared Wednesday that it has overcome the Covid crisis, recording its lowest number of infections this month since summer last year.

Over a dozen shipwrecks are accessible from Gallipoli, a peninsula that has been the graveyard of navies stretching back to ancient times. Turkey, where history and politics seem inextricably interlinked, … Read More