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Aoun says Salameh is insistent on ending fuel subsidies despite laws that allow him to reverse decision

Lebanon registers 1,632 COVID-19 cases, five deaths in 24 hours

Lebanon recorded 1,632 new COVID-19 cases and five deaths in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported Friday.

Aoun, in agreement with Diab, calls for caretaker Cabinet meeting over fuel crisis

A man shot dead five people, including a 3-year-old girl, during a six-minute killing spree with a pump-action shotgun in the southern Engli...

The findings, published Thursday in the prestigious journal Science, could shed light on theories about why the mammoth, whose teeth were bi...

Sitting on the floor of a narrow alley, Kouame carves shapes, letters and faces into the rubber soles of what he has salvaged from the beach...

Wong, 51, was one of the city’s best-known provocateurs, an artist who specialised in satirising and criticising those in power. As China’s...

Oil importers and facilities must supply the stored quantities of fuel they purchased at the original 3,900 pounds to the dollar exchange ra...

Last year’s festival was pushed online due to the pandemic. This one will open to audiences at a number of new screening sites in accordance...

The Dutch government said on Friday it may have to close its embassy in Kabul and was working quickly to bring back some of its local Afghan...

In early July, as Taliban insurgents were seizing territory from government forces across Afghanistan, fighters from the group walked into t...

Sterling dipped to two-week lows against the dollar on Friday, putting it on track for a second week of decline as investors looked for fres...

By Michael Erman NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Drugmakers Pfizer Inc, BioNTech and Moderna Inc are expected to reap billions of dollars from...

Virgil van Dijk gave a timely boost to Liverpool on the eve of their first Premier League match of the season with newly-promoted Norwich Ci...

Emergency workers battled to relieve flood-hit areas of Turkey's Black Sea region on Friday, as the death toll rose to 27 in the second natu...

Kurdish militants launched a mortar attack on a Turkish military base in northern Iraq on Thursday, wounding a Turkish soldier who later die...

Israelis aged 50 and over began receiving vaccine booster shots against the coronavirus Friday as part of a government bid to stem spiking i...

Israel and the United Arab Emirates, which normalised relations a year ago, are looking to Dubai's Expo world fair in October to boost bilat...

The United States and Britain ordered the deployment Friday of thousands of troops to Afghanistan to evacuate their nationals, as the Taliba...

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Friday urged the Taliban to ensure the safety of its diplomats and staff at its consulate in the western Afghan c...

Chelsea signed striker Romelu Lukaku for a second time Thursday as the Belgian returned to the Premier League club from Inter Milan, seven y...

President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati Thursday made speedy progress in their ongoing talks on the formation of a n...

Bank Audi said that Lebanon still has a chance to restore the Lebanese pound provided that a Cabinet committed to economic and financial ref...

Lebanon records 1,817 COVID-19 cases, four deaths in last 24 hours