THE DAILY STAR

Lebanon registers 33 coronavirus deaths, 2,188 cases in 24 hours

Lebanon registered 33 new coronavirus deaths and 2,188 more cases in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Saturday, as the country re...

France's top diplomat spoke with his Iranian counterpart Saturday and urged Iran to be "constructive" and avoid further nuclear escalation a...

COVID-19 vaccines will arrive in Syria within days from China, Russia and the World Health Organisation, the prime minister said, according...

President Joe Biden on Friday lifted sanctions that Donald Trump had imposed on two top officials of the International Criminal Court, undoi...

Turkish police arrested a prominent pro-Kurdish party politician on Friday, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported, weeks after he was stri...

Prosecutors in Taiwan on Saturday sought an arrest warrant for the owner of an unmanned truck that rolled onto a rail track and caused the c...

Britain’s medicines regulator said it has identified 30 cases of rare blood clot events associated with the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine...

Russian human rights activists released a report Friday that chronicles alleged war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law...

The Lebanese pound rose slightly against the dollar Saturday, exchanging for LL11,550 on the black market.

The last ships stranded by the grounding of a giant container vessel in the Suez Canal should pass through the waterway on Saturday, accordi...

Security forces in central Myanmar opened fire on anti-coup protesters on Saturday in violence that a human rights group said has left 550 c...

Lebanon registered 60 new coronavirus-related deaths and 2,963 more cases in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Friday.

Lebanon will run out of money to fund basic imports by the end of May and delays in launching a plan to reduce subsidies are costing $500 mi...

Egypt's Suez Canal must move quickly to upgrade its technical infrastructure if it is to avoid future shipping disruption, shipping industry...

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea has contracted COVID-19 and is showing very mild symptoms, the LF said in a statement Friday.

Britain's organised crime agency is reviewing a report by a group of London-based lawyers which accuses Lebanon's central bank governor Riad...

Lebanon registers 60 coronavirus deaths, 2,963 cases in last 24 hours

Russia warned the West on Friday against sending troops to Ukraine to buttress its ally, after Kiev accused Moscow of building up a military...

Separating fragments of Palestine's sub-divided territory from one another are Israeli watchtowers, the apartheid wall, checkpoints – struct...

The autocratic emirate moved aggressively to reopen in July to tourists. Coronavirus numbers however spiked to levels unseen following New Y...

Iran on Friday rejected any meeting with the United States in Vienna, where it is taking part next week in a session with the remaining part...

Tunisian authorities said a female suicide bomber killed herself and her baby during counterterrorism operations in a mountainous zone in st...

Representatives of Iran and world powers will meet next Tuesday in Vienna to discuss the troubled 2015 nuclear deal, Iranian and European of...

Christians in the Holy Land are marking Good Friday this year amid signs the coronavirus crisis is winding down, with religious sites open t...