THE DAILY STAR

We are commencing 2021 with new norms of individuals’ lifestyles, societal dynamics, and states’ policies after the most uncertain year that...

The World Bank Tuesday estimated the cost of damage at Beirut Port from Aug. 4, 2020 blast at $350 million, but insisted that reforming this...

Turkey’s 83 million inhabitants include Europeans and Asians, Turkish nationalists and ethnic Kurds, multilingual cosmopolitans and provinci...

Israeli soldiers on Tuesday shot dead a man as he attempted to carry out a stabbing attack southwest of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank,...

here will be no crying in the chapel this year.

Lebanon orders Central Bank, commercial banks to work at 20 pct capacity during lockdown

When Rachelle Halabi rushed her 85-year-old father to a Beirut hospital a few days ago with Covid-19, the doctor sent them home as intensive...

Lebanon imposed restrictions on travelers into the country and sharply cut the capacity of government departments and other vital institutio...

The European Union says it will redouble its efforts to save the Iran nuclear agreement despite what it calls Tehran’s "important breach" of...

The French government, under pressure for lagging behind EU neighbours in rolling out Covid vaccinations, promised on Tuesday to dispense ja...

Norway became the first country in the world where electric cars accounted for more than 50 percent of new registrations in 2020, according...

Former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said in an interview aired Monday that French investigators are coming to question him in Lebanon ov...

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is recommending that international monitors be deployed to Libya under a U.N. umbrella to observe the Oct...

Georgia voters are set to decide the balance of power in Congress in a pair of high-stakes Senate runoff elections that will help determine...

Gulf Arab leaders gather in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for a summit that is expected to see formal agreement towards ending a long-running disp...

Britain began its third COVID-19 lockdown on Tuesday with citizens under orders to stay at home and the government calling for one last majo...

Liverpool failed to win for the third consecutive Premier League game as Danny Ings's second-minute goal earned Southampton a 1-0 win at St....

A breakthrough has been reached in Qatar's three-year-old dispute with Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries and an agreement to end t...

Lebanon registered 2,861 new coronavirus cases and 13 deaths in a 24-hour period Monday, as authorities announced the country would be going...

Five new countries -- India, Mexico, Norway, Ireland and Kenya -- formally joined the UN Security Council on Monday at a time of growing pol...

* OPEC+ debating possible output increase from Feb * New virus variant, lockdowns threaten demand * Oil recovery hopes supported by vaccine...

Democrats and Republicans alike are casting Tuesday’s twin Georgia Senate runoffs in the starkest of terms as the state prepares for last-mi...

Talks on the formation of a new Cabinet are expected to resume this week after Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri returns from a family ho...

‘We lost an important figure from my country,’ wrote vocalist Carol Samaha, ‘and he took with him the most beautiful musical era in the hist...

The campaign to vanquish the coronavirus is picking up speed, with Britain beginning to dispense the second vaccine in its arsenal Monday, a...