Israel seeks to extend new Gulf ties to all Middle East, says Lapid
Israel’s new foreign minister said on Wednesday his landmark visit to the United Arab Emirates was just the start of a road to wider peace in the Middle East, ...
U.N. chief urges U.S. to remove Iran sanctions as agreed in 2015
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appealed to U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration to lift or waive all sanctions on Iran as agreed under a 2015 deal aimed at ...
Egyptian billionaire Onsi Sawiris dies
Onsi Sawiris, the patriarch of a family of billionaire businessmen who launched a group of multinational companies under the Orascom umbrella, died on Tuesday at the age of 90, chairman of ...
Animals starve in Lebanon’s zoos as economy crumbles
Thin and frail, the two big cats scarcely moved as they lay on the concrete floor of their cage while, nearby, an emaciated Syrian brown bear anxiously paced his enclosure.
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Inaugurating embassy in UAE, Israel tells region: “We’re here to stay”
Israel’s new foreign minister inaugurated its embassy in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday and offered an olive branch to other former adversaries, saying: “We’re here to stay.”
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Abu Dhabi will only allow vaccinated people in many public spaces
Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates will only allow vaccinated people in some public spaces, including schools, universities and nurseries, from August 20, the emirate’s media office said in ...
Lebanon’s economic collapse bites hard in neglected north
Taha Riz has worked just three days in more than a month at his Tripoli bakery, in Lebanon’s neglected north where economic meltdown has hit hardest and plunged thousands ...
Lebanon approves financing fuel imports at weaker exchange rate
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister on Friday approved a proposal to finance fuel imports at the rate of 3,900 Lebanese pounds to the dollar, instead of the previous 1,500 pound rate, amidst ...
Israel re-instates mask wearing indoors 10 days after ditching them
Israel told its citizens on Friday they must again wear masks indoors, 10 days after being allowed to ditch them, amid a sustained surge in coronavirus infections attributed to the highly ...
Lebanon’s Kataeb party calls for ‘neutrality and decentralisation’ as alternative to meltdown
The Kataeb party is trying to unite the opposition around a coherent economic policy.
By George Eid and Andrew Rosenbaum
Lebanon is in desperate need of a viable economic policy.
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U.S. blocks websites linked to Iranian propaganda
The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities or violent organizations, taking them offline for violating U.S. ...
As Lebanon battles crisis, coastal city Batroun thrives on local tourism
While businesses across Lebanon are fighting to survive a monumental economic meltdown, the coastal city of Batroun is thriving as a tourist destination for Lebanese whose summer plans have been ...
Armenia’s acting PM keeps power, bolsters authority despite military defeat (Update)
Armenia’s acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, kept power in a parliamentary election that boosted his authority despite being widely blamed for a military defeat last year in the Nagorno-Karabakh ...
Palestinian inventor makes anti-Covid aid for smartphones
Amer Darwish, a refugee, is known as the “Palestinian inventor” among his friends and relatives in the Beddawi camp in northern Lebanon for making a number of innovations throughout the ...
Armenia votes in neck-and-neck parliamentary election
Armenians were voting in a parliamentary election on Sunday, with opinion polls putting the party of acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and that of former President Robert Kocharyan neck-and-neck.
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Europeans, U.S. warn Iran nuclear talks won’t be open-ended (Updated)
Western officials warned Tehran on Sunday that negotiations to revive its nuclear deal could not continue indefinitely, after the sides announced a break following the election of a new hardline ...
Israel’s Bennett warns against nuclear talks with Iran’s “hangmen regime”
Israel condemned on Sunday the election of hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi as Iranian president, saying his would be a “regime of brutal hangmen” with which world powers should not negotiate ...
EU warns Lebanon’s leaders of sanctions over ‘home-made’ crisis
The European Union’s foreign policy chief told Lebanon’s leaders on Saturday they were to blame for the country’s political and economic crisis and some could face sanctions ...
Iran’s foreign minister says Raisi is new elected president
Iran’s Foreign Minister said on Saturday that hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi was the country’s new elected president and everyone would have to work with him from now on.
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Saudi Arabia executes man for offences he committed as a minor
Saudi Arabia has executed a man for offences rights groups say he allegedly committed while under the age of 18, despite the kingdom’s insistence that it has abolished death sentences ...
Gaza violence erupts for first time since end of last month’s fighting
Israeli aircraft struck Hamas sites in Gaza on Wednesday after incendiary balloons were launched from the Palestinian enclave in the first such attacks since the end of 11 days of cross-border ...
Iran says it produced 6.5kg of uranium enriched to 60%
Iran has made 6.5 kg (14 lb) of uranium enriched to up to 60%, the government said on Tuesday, detailing a move that rattled the country’s nuclear talks with world powers by ...
Israelis told they can throw away their face masks
Israel told its citizens they could stop wearing masks indoors on Tuesday, ending one of its last main restrictions as new COVID-19 infections continued to wane even as vaccinations tapered ...
Israeli far-right group to march in East Jerusalem, Palestinians plan ‘Day of Rage’
Far-right Israeli groups will march in East Jerusalem on Tuesday in a flag-waving procession that risks igniting tensions with Palestinians in the contested city and rekindling violence between Israel and ...