THE DAILY STAR

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday charged two suspects whom it alleged worked together to spray a chemical irritant on three Capitol Pol...

Lebanon registers 42 COVID-19 deaths, 1,505 cases in 24 hours

Lebanon registered 42 new coronavirus deaths and 1,505 more cases in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry said Monday, as the country's to...

Protesters once again blocked roads throughout Lebanon Monday as the Lebanese pound depreciated further, with no end in sight for deteriorat...

For many, it remains a baffling concept, but a NFT ('non-fungible token') essentially offers collectors proof that they 'own' a digital artw...

An international conference to rescue Lebanon in the near future may no longer be a choice or wishful thinking, but an international necessi...

An Iraqi drug trafficker being escorted to court made a daring escape Monday when associates posing as soldiers forced police to hand him ov...

Germany will stop administering AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, a spokesman for the Health Ministry said Monday, making Germany the latest o...

Artprice, the France-based art market data aggregator, said the digital transformation of auctions amounted to a 'revolution' in the way fin...

Syria foiled an explosives plot in the capital Damascus, security forces killing three people they said were terrorists and arresting three...

Haig Aivazian’s essay film ‘All of Your Stars Are but Dust on my Shoes’ places Beirut’s gloom in a speculative history of public lighting

The World Health Organization appealed to countries on Monday not to pause vaccination campaigns after two more European nations and one in...

The Grammys on Sunday broke through the Zoom trap that has bedeviled other awards shows with a surprisingly intimate evening that, at its be...

Britain said Monday it was imposing new sanctions on Bashar al-Assad’s regime, including asset freezes and travel bans on the Syrian dictato...

Morocco hopes its improved ties with Israel and centuries-old Jewish history will help it offset some of the tourist trade it has lost to th...

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard on Monday inaugurated a new underground facility designated for missile storage, the country's state...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Monday urged the United States to quickly rejoin the international agreement limiting Iran’s n...

Iran has charged a French tourist with spying and "spreading propaganda against the system," his lawyer said Monday, the latest in a series...

Lebanon’s top COVID-19 expert and director of Rafik Hariri University Hospital warned Monday of the possibility of a fourth wave of the viru...

Myanmar security forces fired on pro-democracy demonstrators on Monday killing five people, media and witnesses said, a day after dozens of...

Regular booster vaccines against the novel coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able t...

The Lebanese pound hit a new record low Monday, trading for LL12,600 against the dollar on the black market.

Three NGOs Monday announced a landmark legal case in Moscow against Russian mercenary group Wagner over the torture of a detainee in Syria,...

The Israeli Defense Ministry Sunday said it has completed development of a new guided mortar system, giving the army a formidable new weapon...

U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken's comments about supporting a Yemen free from foreign influence are "positive", Houthi official Mohamm...