THE DAILY STAR

Ambassador of Switzerland in Lebanon Monika Schmutz Kirg?z inaugurated Wednesday 19 newly rehabilitated Lebanese public schools, in a handov...

The government and the Central Bank agreed in principle to disburse the World Bank’s $246 million cash assistance to poor families in fresh...

Lebanon records 62 coronavirus deaths, 3,544 cases in 24 hours

Lebanon registered 64 new coronavirus deaths and 3,544 more cases in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Wednesday, as problems with...

Lebanon's National Conservatory is badly in need of funds to purchase instruments, both for the LPO and for its students, most of whose pare...

For the first time, scientists have used human cells to make structures that mimic the earliest stages of development, which they say will p...

Hundreds of Yemenis took to the streets of the southern port city of Aden for a second day Wednesday to protest poor living conditions and r...

US President Joe Biden has said that it would be "tough" to meet the deadline to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan by May 1, as agre...

Demonstrators briefly attempted to storm Lebanon's Economy Ministry Wednesday to protest skyrocketing prices of basic goods as the local cur...

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh expected Wednesday a retreat in the Lebanese pound's rate against the dollar once new proposals are studi...

The World Health Organization said Wednesday its experts were still reviewing safety data on the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine following conc...

Jordan's state security court sentenced six men to death Wednesday after convicting them of maiming a 16-year-old boy in a case that trigger...

Three people were killed and nearly 1,900 injured celebrating Iran's traditional fire festival in the runup to this weekend's Persian New Ye...

The UAE will not get involved in Israeli electioneering, an Emirati official said Wednesday, in pointed comments amid new reports Prime Mini...

Pope Francis on Wednesday appealed for bloodshed to end and dialogue to prevail in Myanmar, saying he symbolically kneels in that country's...

Palestinians on Wednesday received their first delivery of coronavirus vaccine via the UN's Covax programme supporting poorer nations, an AF...

The pound retreated against the dollar on the black market Wednesday, trading at LL14,100, as the standard of living in the country continue...

Lebanon's worst economic downturn in decades has pushed a battered population to the brink with no solution in sight as the country's barons...

Tunisian President Kais Saied on Wednesday visited neighbouring Libya, where a UN-backed unity government is seeking to restore stability af...

About 10.3 million people were displaced by climate change-induced events such as flooding and droughts in the last six months, the majority...

Egyptian troops have demolished more than 12,300 buildings in the Sinai Peninsula since 2013 in a campaign of forced evictions that likely a...

The emergence of the Earth's first living organisms billions of years ago may have been facilitated by a bolt out of the blue - or perhaps a...

Syrian air defences shot down several Israeli missile strikes over the capital Damascus on Tuesday, state media said.

Samer became paralysed, Bakri had a leg amputated and Rukaia fled to France: a decade of civil war in Syria has devastated millions of lives...

Daraa was an impoverished, neglected provincial city in the farmlands of Syria’s south, an overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim backwater far from th...