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Iraq will hold early elections Sunday as a concession to a youth-led protest movement, but in Nasiriyah, the city at the heart of the revolt, most young people won’t vote.

The United States hopes to restart nuclear talks with Iran soon, a senior US official said Monday, while noting “alarming” progress by Tehran on developing nuclear capacity.

Facebook battled dueling crises Monday as potentially billions of users were impacted when its dominant social network went offline for seven hours, and the company fought against a whistleblower’s damning … Read More

Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of people as users flocked to other networks to sound off.

Western countries on Monday called on Syria to allow in chemical arms inspectors, saying Damascus continued to breach its obligations to the world’s toxic weapons watchdog.

A special envoy of French President Emmanuel Macron began talks Monday with Lebanese officials aimed at accelerating the government’s reform measures and its preparations to resume negotiations with the International … Read More

Masrah al-Madina director says General Security’s stopping the second performance of Awad Awad’s ‘kind of a play’ was simple misunderstanding

Prosecutors on Monday appealed against the acquittal by a UN-backed court of two suspected Hezbollah members over the 2005 murder of Lebanese former prime minister Rafik Hariri.

Global airlines will lose an estimated $51.8 billion in 2021 and another $11.6 billion in 2022 in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to an industry forecast released Monday.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its key allies decided at a meeting on Monday to stick to planned moderate increases in output for November despite soaring crude … Read More