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Gas and oil rich Qatar, which holds its first legislative polls on Saturday, survived a bruising stand-off with its Gulf neighbours to emerge as a key broker in Afghanistan

Israeli forces on Thursday shot dead a Palestinian man in Gaza who approached the security fence that marks the border, the territory’s health ministry and the Israeli army said.

Lebanon registered 621 new coronavirus cases and nine deaths in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported Thursday.

The Covid-delayed Expo 2020 kicks off in Dubai on Thursday with an extravagant opening ceremony for what is expected to be the world’s biggest event since the start of the … Read More

A French court on Thursday convicted former president Nicolas Sarkozy of illegal campaign financing over massive overspending on his 2012 re-election campaign, six months after he was given a jail … Read More

A Gulf Air plane began the first commercial flight between Bahrain and Israel on Thursday, a year after the normalisation of diplomatic relations.

The United States has no plans to “normalize or upgrade” diplomatic relations with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and also does not encourage others to do so, a … Read More

Conflict-torn Ethiopia is holding elections Thursday for dozens of federal parliamentary seats, the final round of voting before Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed forms a new government next week.

The Lebanese pound fell for a sixth day Thursday, trading at 17,450 against the dollar

Israeli police fatally shot a Palestinian woman who tried to stab officers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday, police said.