THE DAILY STAR

The Central Bank on Thursday asked the government to pass a law that authorizes BDL to give loans in foreign currency to the state to financ...

Atlanta's Trae Young scored a career playoff high 48 points and the Hawks edged host Milwaukee 116-113 in Wednesday's opening game of the NB...

Lebanese officials on Thursday agreed in principle to partially lift the subsidy on gasoline in a bid to release funds from the Central Bank...

The European Championship is well and truly up for grabs as the tournament enters the knockouts after a compelling group stage in which some...

A big part of the problem at the London Symphony Orchestra, said its music director Simon Rattle, is the lack of government support for musi...

The last time a U.S. secretary of state visited the Vatican, the diplomatic sparks flew and Pope Francis declined to receive Mike Pompeo.

Egypt will allow travellers who have taken full doses of approved novel coronavirus vaccines to enter without taking a PCR test, the health...

Oman's foreign minister told his Israeli counterpart he hopes Israel's new government will take concrete steps towards creating an independe...

A Palestinian rights activist died Friday shortly after being arrested by Palestinian Authority security forces in the occupied West Bank, a...

The combined effects of Lebanon's economic meltdown, last year's Beirut port blast and Covid-19 lockdowns have left the LGBTQ community more...

Five Arab Israelis and two Palestinians were charged Thursday with the "racially motivated" murder of an Israeli Jew, whose car was stoned d...

The Lebanese pound dropped to a new record low Thursday, trading at 15,600 to the dollar on the black market, as the country's political and...

With flashing lasers, honking horns and choking smoke from burning tyres, the latest tactics used by Palestinian protesters are dusk till da...

A Pentagon translator was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison for passing the names of US informants in Iraq to a person linked to Hez...

The owners and insurers of a giant cargo ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March have reached agreement in principle in a compensation dis...

The IMF executive board on Wednesday said it had approved Egypt's request for a $1.7 billion loan, its final disbursement under a plan aidin...

The UN General Assembly condemned the nearly 60-year-old US embargo on Cuba for the 29th year in a row Wednesday, calling for it to end by a...

A new poll on American attitudes toward a core conflict in the Middle East finds about half of Democrats want the U.

Viktor Claesson scored an injury-time winner as Sweden beat Poland 3-2 in Saint Petersburg Wednesday to clinch top spot in Group E and knock...

Spain finally have lift-off at Euro 2020 after a 5-0 hammering of Slovakia on Wednesday sent them through as runners-up in Group E, with Cro...

Shunned by rich countries and failing to meet the needs of the poorest, a programme co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) for fair d...

Lebanon recorded 167 new coronavirus cases and three deaths in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported Wednesday, while President Mi...

If you can stomach the macho melodrama, these movies are ridiculous big-screen ballets, with cars shooting out of skyscrapers and airplanes,...

Hezbollah’s mediation attempts to soften MP Gebran Bassil’s tough conditions on the formation of a new government desperately needed to deli...

A van containing smuggled subsidized heavy fuel oil was confiscated in Chadra village on June 9, a statement from the Internal Security Forc...