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Demonstrators briefly attempted to storm Lebanon’s Economy Ministry Wednesday to protest skyrocketing prices of basic goods as the local currency collapses.

The UAE will not get involved in Israeli electioneering, an Emirati official said Wednesday, in pointed comments amid new reports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to visit ahead of … Read More

Three people were killed and nearly 1,900 injured celebrating Iran’s traditional fire festival in the runup to this weekend’s Persian New Year, emergency services said Wednesday.

Jordan’s state security court sentenced six men to death Wednesday after convicting them of maiming a 16-year-old boy in a case that triggered public outrage, a court official said.

Syria’s first couple are on their way to recovery nine days after testing positive for the coronavirus, President Bashar Assad’s office said Wednesday.

Palestinians on Wednesday received their first delivery of coronavirus vaccine via the UN’s Covax programme supporting poorer nations, an AFP journalist in the occupied West Bank reported.

Pope Francis on Wednesday appealed for bloodshed to end and dialogue to prevail in Myanmar, saying he symbolically kneels in that country’s streets, where protests against the military takeover were … Read More

Lebanon is battling its worst economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.

Lebanon’s worst economic downturn in decades has pushed a battered population to the brink with no solution in sight as the country’s barons wrangle over forming a new government.

The pound retreated against the dollar on the black market Wednesday, trading at LL14,100, as the standard of living in the country continues to deterioriate.