THE DAILY STAR

Lebanon's Higher Defense Council Friday decided to impose a three-day shut down during every religious holiday in the coming weeks, and exte...

The trial of former Nissan executive Greg Kelly in a Tokyo court is increasingly focusing on a rift between Nissan Motor Co.

Lebanon to observe 3-day shut down for Easter, Eid al Fitr holidays

Lebanon on Friday received a first batch of Russian vaccines imported by the private sector to help speed up the vaccination campaign agains...

The pound edged higher on the black market Friday, trading at LL12,700 against the dollar, as BDL prepared to launch an electronic platform.

Tugboats and a specialized suction dredger worked Friday to dislodge a giant container ship that has been stuck sideways in Egypt's Suez Can...

Iraq received 336,000 doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, the first sent there under the global COVAX vaccine-sharing schem...

The odds of Washington and Tehran making progress to revive the 2015 nuclear deal before Iran's June elections have dwindled after Iran opte...

The cargo ship blocking the Suez Canal is holding up traffic that carries nearly $10 billion worth of goods every day, so a quick clearing o...

Dozens of farmers squatted on railway tracks in northern India on Friday, disrupting traffic to mark four months of a campaign against the o...

European giants Germany, Italy and England all got off to a winning start in World Cup qualifying, while Zlatan Ibrahimovi? marked his retur...

Lebanon registered 61 new coronavirus-related deaths and 3,560 more cases in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Thursday, as author...

The Biden administration is giving the Palestinians $15 million to aid in their COVID-19 response in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the U.S....

Lebanon reports 61 COVID-19 deaths, 3,560 cases in 24 hours

Three days after he was led away in handcuffs from a Boulder supermarket where 10 people were fatally shot, the suspect appeared in court Th...

Bahraini authorities on Thursday said a number of cases of coronavirus discovered in a prison earlier this week had been isolated and the in...

Libya's new unity government on Thursday demanded the "immediate" withdrawal of all foreign mercenaries ahead of year-end elections, in a ca...

A cargo ship owned by an Israeli company was hit by an Iranian missile in the Arabian Sea earlier on Thursday, Israel's Channel 12 news repo...

Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said on Thursday he and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu had agreed to work together to prevent vi...

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits dropped to a one-year low last week as economic activity rebounds after...

The United States and Britain imposed sanctions on military-controlled conglomerates in Myanmar on Thursday as security forces were reported...

Masked gunmen in a convoy of pick-ups drove through the Iraqi capital Thursday staging a show of force against Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kad...

Vote tallying in Israel resumed Thursday in the deadlocked parliamentary elections held earlier this week, with neither Prime Minister Benja...

The United Arab Emirates, one of the world's largest gold hubs, is strengthening its defences against financial crime, including new restric...

US Ambassador Dorothy Shea urged officials Thursday to set their differences aside and form a new government to rescue the country from its...