THE DAILY STAR

The World Heritage Committee meeting in Fuzhou, China, cited Italy’s recent ban and gave Italian authorities until next December to report b...

The shortages and currency crunch in Lebanon could lead to a collapse of the mains water supply in Lebanon within a month, the UN's Children...

Lebanon is expected to sign a landmark agreement with Iraq next week to supply the fuel-strapped country with 1 million tons of Iraqi fuel t...

Electric vehicles more than doubled their share of new car sales in Europe in the second quarter, with hybrids also making gains, the Europe...

Senior officials from Baghdad were in Washington Thursday for preliminary talks on the US military presence in Iraq, ahead of an upcoming me...

Former UN rights chief Navi Pillay will lead the United Nations' open-ended inquiry into "systematic" abuses in Israel and the Palestinian t...

The Lebanese pound rose on the black market Friday, trading at LL21,450 against the dollar, after reports emerged a new government might fin...

Iran is using unlawful and excessive force in a crackdown against protests over water shortages in its oil-rich but arid southwestern Khuzes...

German luxury carmaker Daimler said Thursday it was investing 40 billion euros ($47 billion) in a full shift to electric Mercedes-Benz vehic...

UN special coordinator Thursday urged the formation of a new government in Lebanon and holding the general elections on time in 2022, during...

A spokesman for the Taliban claimed Thursday they controlled 90 percent of Afghanistan's borders, following offensives carried out by the ha...

Lebanon recorded 543 new coronavirus cases and one death in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported Thursday.

Piles of cars were strewn across a central Chinese city Thursday as shocked residents picked through the debris of a historic deluge that cl...

France's bid for men's Olympic football glory got off to a nightmare start with a 4-1 defeat by Mexico Thursday, while a strong Spain side s...

Israel has established a commission to review allegations that NSO Group's controversial Pegasus phone surveillance software was misused, th...

The tail of a Gulf Air passenger aircraft was hit by another plane at Dubai International Airport on Thursday, Bahrain's state news agency B...

The Syrian army shelled the Idlib region Thursday killing seven civilians, three of them children, in its third deadly bombardment of the re...

Iran has opened its first oil terminal in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday, to allow Tehran to avoid usin...

Madagascan authorities arrested several people, including foreign nationals, on Tuesday on suspicion of plotting to kill the president, the...

Saudi Arabia has dismissed as "baseless" allegations that it used Israeli-supplied Pegasus malware to spy on journalists and human rights ac...

Protesters angry about water shortages took to the streets of southwest Iran for a sixth night in a row on Tuesday, with mounting violence,...

French President Emmanuel Macron has called a national security meeting on Thursday morning to discuss the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware afte...

President Joe Biden pleaded with Americans on Wednesday to get vaccinated, as rising COVID-19 cases threaten to undermine progress against t...

The Lebanese pound was little changed on the black market Thursday, trading at LL22,400 against the dollar.

On the eve of the Tokyo Games, organizers fired the director of the opening ceremony over a joke he made about the Holocaust, while media re...