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Saudi and Iranian officials plan further direct talks this month though no date has been set, Middle East officials and sources said, with the aim of easing tensions between the … Read More

Covid-19 infections in Iraq surpassed one million on Wednesday, the health ministry said, a figure unmatched in the Arab world, in a country that has long faced medical shortages.

Suzanne Mouawad lived through Lebanon’s civil war and built a successful advertising business in the hopeful days after the fighting ended, but she says her country’s economic collapse is breaking … Read More

Under the government’s plan to ease restrictions, museums in England have to remain shut until May 17 at the earliest, even as gyms, hairdressing salons and pubs have reopened. The … Read More

Lebanon registered 32 more coronavirus deaths and 2,082 new cases, the Health Ministry said Wednesday, as the death toll from the virus exceeded 7,000.

With everything that is going on in Lebanon today it has become even more imperative that each party and each leader be afforded consideration according to their stances, actions and … Read More

School pupils in Lebanon returned to the classroom Wednesday, following a more than three-month closure in guidance with coronavirus prevention measures.

A first batch of Covid-19 vaccines arrived Wednesday in war-torn northwestern Syria, an AFP correspondent said, where millions live in dire humanitarian conditions.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth said she had been deeply touched by the tributes paid to her husband Prince Philip, in her first public remarks since his death earlier this month and … Read More

Lebanon’s caretaker government is yet to meet the required conditions for the World Bank social security $246m loan, despite the deadline being less than a month away, risking delaying by … Read More