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A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced five people to life in jail over the 2016 assassination of the Russian ambassador to Ankara, state broadcaster TRT Haber reported.

Hamas Islamists will this week elect the head of their Gaza political branch — the group’s de facto leader in the Palestinian enclave, Hamas sources told AFP on Tuesday.

Lebanese people have reached another peak of devastation as the economic crisis badly impacts all citizens from all social classes.

At least 39 migrants died when two boats sank off Tunisia Tuesday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, the Tunisian defense ministry said.

Dr. Firass Abiad, director of Rafik Hariri University Hospital, said Tuesday that hospitals around Lebanon are once again facing dangerously low levels of oxygen.

France concealed the levels of radioactivity that French Polynesia was exposed to during French nuclear tests in the Pacific from 1966-1996, with almost the “entire population” of the overseas territory … Read More

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to expel veteran official Nasser al-Qudwa from Fatah party over his decision to run a separate list in May’s legislative decision, a senior Fatah … Read More

The United Arab Emirates said Tuesday that tough US sanctions on war-ravaged Syria make it more challenging for Damascus to return to the Arab League.

Lebanese President Michel Aoun Tuesday gave Officer in Charge of the UN Special Coordinator Office Najat Rushdie a copy of the report on the oil seepage that arrived to Lebanon’s … Read More

Flights between the eastern Libya city of Benghazi and the western city of Misrata were restored Tuesday after a near seven year absence, the latest tentative step towards national reconciliation.