Pro-Haftar pilot released in prisoner swap: reports
Libya's unity government has carried out a prisoner exchange with rival eastern forces, releasing a pilot captured during strongman Khalifa Haftar's 2019 assault on Tripoli, local media reported...
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Hundreds march in Paris in tribute to Kurds shot dead
Hundreds of people marched in Paris on Monday to pay tribute to three Kurds shot dead in France's capital last week as a judge weighed whether to charge the alleged shooter....
26 December 2022
Turkey summons French envoy after Paris shooting
Turkey on Monday summoned France's ambassador over "anti-Turkey propaganda" that it alleged French officials did little to stop following the killing of three Kurds in Paris. Friday's shooting was...
26 December 2022
Dozens injured in factory blast: state media
An explosion on Monday at a factory in northwest Iran has injured at least 65 people, state media reported. The blast at a paint factory in the Shahid Salimi industrial...
26 December 2022
Netanyahu looks to vote in new government on Thursday
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu intends to hold a vote in parliament on his new government on Thursday Dec. 29, just days before his mandate to do so expires, the...
26 December 2022
Iran hangs two murder convicts in latest executions
Iranian authorities have hanged two men convicted of murder in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province in the latest executions carried out by the Islamic Republic, the judiciary said Monday....
26 December 2022
Deadly IS assault targeting Raqqa prison 'thwarted': Kurdish forces
Islamic State group militants in northern Syria launched a failed attack targeting a prison holding fellow jihadists in a clash that killed six Kurdish fighters, local authorities and a war monitor...
26 December 2022
Lebanese personalities pay tribute to Chadia el-Khazen, widow of Ghassan Tueni, who passed away on Christmas Eve
BEIRUT — Several Lebanese personalities paid tribute over the weekend to Chadia el-Khazen Tueini — widow of politician and journalist Ghassan Tueini — who died on Christmas Eve, the day after her...
26 December 2022
Another new record low for the Lebanese lira as it hits LL47,000 to the dollar
BEIRUT — The Lebanese lira on Monday continued its tumble on the parallel market, trading around LL47,000 to the US dollar in the early afternoon, according to several mobile tracking applications....
26 December 2022
Hezbollah denounces 'political farce and personal interests' and advocates for 'consensus'
BEIRUT — The head of Hezbollah's parliamentary group, Mohammad Raad, on Sunday reaffirmed his party's commitment to "consensus" on the election of Lebanon's future head of state. The country has...
26 December 2022
Shepherd found killed in Koura with 40 of his sheep
BEIRUT — A shepherd was found shot dead along with 40 of his sheep on Monday in the village of Hreija in Koura, North Lebanon, L'Orient Today 's correspondent in the area reported. According to a...
26 December 2022
Abiad says cholera could highlight the 'dire situation' of Lebanon's infrastructure
BEIRUT — Caretaker Health Minister Firass Abiad on Monday said that the cholera outbreak that started in Lebanon in October "might have positive repercussions" to the extent that it...
26 December 2022
Six pro-Turkish fighters killed in clashes
Six Syrian fighters from a pro-Turkish group died in clashes with regime troops that still raged Monday in northwest Syria, rebel forces and a war monitor said. A...
26 December 2022
Revolutionary Guards arrest UK-Iranian dual nationals over protests
DUBAI — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards arrested seven people with links to Britain on Sunday, including some who held dual nationality, over anti-government protests that have rocked the country,...
26 December 2022
Influential Zionist rabbi Haim Druckman dies at 90
Rabbi Haim Druckman, spiritual leader of the religious Zionist movement in Israel, died Sunday aged 90 after contracting COVID-19, a Jerusalem hospital said. For decades...
