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Tunisian President Kais Saied on Wednesday visited neighbouring Libya, where a UN-backed unity government is seeking to restore stability after a decade of violent turmoil.

About 10.3 million people were displaced by climate change-induced events such as flooding and droughts in the last six months, the majority of them in Asia, a humanitarian organisation said … Read More

Egyptian troops have demolished more than 12,300 buildings in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013 in a campaign of forced evictions that likely amount to “war crimes”, Human Rights Watch said … Read More

The emergence of the Earth’s first living organisms billions of years ago may have been facilitated by a bolt out of the blue – or perhaps a quintillion of them.

Daraa was an impoverished, neglected provincial city in the farmlands of Syria’s south, an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim backwater far from the more cosmopolitan cities of the country’s heartland.

Samer became paralysed, Bakri had a leg amputated and Rukaia fled to France: a decade of civil war in Syria has devastated millions of lives.

Syrian air defences shot down several Israeli missile strikes over the capital Damascus on Tuesday, state media said.

Manchester City cruised into the quarterfinals of the Champions League as early goals from Kevin De Bruyne and Ilkay Gundogan beat Borussia Moenchengladbach 2-0 in Budapest Tuesday and sealed a … Read More

Real Madrid easily overcame Atalanta 3-1 at home in their Champions League last-16 second leg Wednesday to stroll into the quarterfinals 4-1 on aggregate.

The Lebanese pound’s dramatic and unchecked nosedive against the US dollar is threatening to plunge the crises-stricken country into total chaos and security risks that would further add to the … Read More