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For now, the Cabinet has a tall order and low expectations may be the only factor working in its favor.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday for talks expected to cover Israeli-Palestinian relations and bilateral issues, Egypt’s presidency said, in the first … Read More

President Vladimir Putin on Monday approved higher salaries for law enforcement and military personnel ahead of a parliamentary vote, one of many measures critics say is designed to boost support … Read More

Lebanon’s information minister George Kordahi said on Monday President Michel Aoun had stressed during the new government’s first cabinet meeting Lebanon’s need for the International Monetary Fund, The World Bank … Read More

President Aoun says hopes cabinet will resume talks with IMF

More than two years after Sudan’s power-sharing deal was inked, analysts say the role of civilian leaders is receding while the army remains dominant

The Taliban co-founder and now deputy prime minister of Afghanistan released an audio statement Monday saying he was alive and well after news of his supposed demise went viral on … Read More

A new animal clinic has opened in the occupied West Bank, part of a growing tendency among Palestinians to raise and pamper pets.

The pound is trading at 16,350 to the dollar, said exchange dealers

Israel’s foreign minister has proposed improving living conditions in Gaza in exchange for calm from the enclave’s Hamas Islamist leaders, aiming to solve “never-ending rounds of violence” as the two … Read More