Two protesters were killed Sunday in clashes with Iraqi security forces in the town of Samawa, a police official said, amid growing anger in southern cities...
The formation of a new government is being stymied by an ongoing struggle between the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Forces over Christian...
On the eve of his meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump rattled allies once more by labeling the European Union a “foe� with...
France celebrated their second World Cup win 20 years after their maiden triumph Sunday, overcoming a passionate Croatia side 4-2 in one of the most gripping...
The arrival of a massive power barge off the coast of the town of Jiyyeh south of Beirut sparked consternation among the town’s residents, whose small strip...
Protesters gathered in Downtown Beirut’s Riad al-Solh Square Sunday in condemnation of the government’s failure to provide basic services, also decrying...
The Penal Appeal Court in Mount Lebanon upheld a decision by a Metn judge in a case that ruled homosexuality was not a crime.
The Vatican will authorize official pilgrimage visits to Lebanon in 2019, Lebanese Charge d’Affaires in Vatican City and UNESCO Ambassador Khalil Karam told...
Relatives of Lebanese citizen Nizar Zakka, who is imprisoned in Iran, requested that officials ask an Iranian representative due to visit Lebanon why a deal...
A group of environmental NGOs and activist groups issued a joint statement Sunday, calling for the revocation of unannounced decisions allegedly taken by...
During the summer of 1982, I was employed by Catholic Relief Service to serve as their director in Tyre charged with the responsibility to deliver...
A senior Iranian oil official urged U.S. President Donald Trump not to use the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to push prices lower, and instead drop...
Arif Naqvi, the founder of embattled Dubai-based private equity firm Abraaj Group, reached an interim settlement with a creditor on a $300 million loan, his...
Vitol Group, the world’s largest independent oil trader, is among firms considering bids for Spanish oil company Cepsa Trading SA as its owner weighs...
The United Arab Emirates intends to invest as much as $10 billion in South Africa’s economy, with a focus on tourism and mining.
Boeing Co. is seeking to rewrite the rules for creating commercial jets as it hones plans for a new midrange jet nicknamed the 797.
With its colorful hammocks and table tennis table, a new tech hub in the Lagos metropolis wouldn’t look out of place among the startups on the other side of...
British jet engine maker Rolls-Royce has designed a propulsion system for a flying taxi and is starting a search for partners to help develop a project it...
The world’s biggest oil traders are counting hefty losses after a surprise doubling in the price discount of U.S. light crude to benchmark Brent WTCLc1-LCOc1...
Frustrated with OPEC’s inability to help him, U.S. President Donald Trump may have inadvertently found a way of bringing down gasoline prices: Step up the...
Despite advances in predicting where hurricanes are heading, forecasters are still struggling to determine a crucial factor in deciding emergency measures and...
The world of their parents and grandparents was turned upside down more than 50 years ago when they were evacuated from villages along the Nile River to make...
When Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Helsinki on July 16, will they betray the most famous summit associated with the Finnish capital – the 1975...
“The copyright and patent laws we have today look more like intellectual monopoly than intellectual property,� Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles wrote in their...
President Donald Trump’s trip to Europe is being portrayed by both him and his critics as revolutionary.
Syrian government forces widened their offensive in the country’s southwest Sunday to Qunaitra province, a region adjoining the Israeli-occupied Golan...
Old images, fiction films and even video games have all been used to spread fake news stories in war-torn Syria – creating all the more work for a media...
Algeria’s government has resumed expelling migrants into the Sahara Desert to die, leaving 391 people to wander through some of the world’s most hostile...
A woman may face charges under a new harassment law in Saudi Arabia after storming a stage to hug a pop star, authorities and local media said Sunday.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Morocco’s capital Rabat Sunday to demonstrate against the jailing of leaders of a protest movement in the...
Israel’s supreme court Sunday rejected an appeal against house arrest for an Israeli suspect in a 2015 firebombing that killed a Palestinian toddler and his...
Iran’s supreme leader Sunday called on state bodies to support the government of President Hassan Rouhani in fighting looming U.S. economic sanctions, saying...
A cease-fire announced by Hamas largely held Sunday after the most severe exchange of fire between Israel and Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip since a...
Turkey’s plans to buy the Russian S-400 missile defense system would give a weapon used by “known foes� of NATO deep insight into the radar-evading F-35...
If U.S. President Donald Trump was inclined to be tentative when raising election meddling with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday, the indictment of 12...
U.S. President Donald Trump said he intends to run for re-election in 2020 because “everybody wants me to� and there are no Democratic candidates who could...
Cuba will officially recognize private property, something it has long rejected as a vestige of capitalism, under a new constitution that also creates the...
At least 1,000 people gathered at the grandiose tomb of the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco Sunday to protest against Madrid’s plans to move his body,...
British Prime Minister Theresa May warned her divided party Sunday that there may be “no Brexit at all� if they wreck her plan to forge a close relationship...
U.S. and North Korean military officials met on the inter-Korean border Sunday to discuss the return of remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean...
Scarlett Johansson has announced her withdrawal from the film “Rub & Tug,� after her plans to portray a transgender man prompted a backlash.
Novak Djokovic proved conclusively he remains one of the biggest beasts in men’s tennis by outplaying South African giant Kevin Anderson to claim a fourth...
The changes Angelique Kerber has made on the court helped her win a first Wimbledon title. She believes the changes she made off the court will ensure her...
Here’s a fact box on Serbia’s Novak Djokovic, who beat South Africa’s Kevin Anderson 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (3) in the Wimbledon men’s singles final Sunday.
Manny Pacquiao rolled back the years as he stopped WBA welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse Sunday – the 39-year-old Filipino icon’s first knockout win since...
France won the World Cup for the second time in spectacular style Sunday as a 4-2 victory in one of the most entertaining and action-packed finals for decades...
Energetic, disciplined and clinical, France won the World Cup Sunday with a 4-2 victory over Croatia that, even in such a moment of achievement, still left...
Millions of French fans were overwhelmed with joy Sunday as France beat Croatia 4-2 to win football’s World Cup in a pulsating final in Moscow, sparking...
After watching their football team lose 4-2 to France in the World Cup final in Moscow Sunday, some Croatians wept with sadness while others felt pride that...
The ball skidded across the pristine Moscow pitch and time seemed to slow.
Not even the loudest of thunderclaps could shake Antoine Griezmann Sunday, as the 27-year-old chose the World Cup final to live up to the star billing his...
Just as they looked to have hit their stride at the perfect moment, luck it seemed, and more pertinently technology, conspired against this spirited Croatia...
He staged Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik’s speech from the dock, held multinationals and aid agencies to account for their part in the never-ending...
Archaeologists in Egypt stumbled upon a new discovery dating back to more than 2,500 years ago near Egypt’s famed pyramids at an ancient necropolis south of...