Former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave a blistering rebuke of 2016 Republican front-runner Donald Trump Thursday, leading an attempt by the party...
A U.S.-Russia-brokered truce in Syria, now in its sixth day, is largely holding despite sporadic clashes in some areas, a U.N. envoy said Thursday, raising...
Turkey is under growing pressure to consider a major escalation in migrant deportations from Greece, a top European Union official said Thursday, amid...
Prime Minister Tammam Salam Thursday urged political parties to help reach a solution to the 7-month-old trash crisis, saying that otherwise there would be no...
After much anticipation, it’s finally here: the Oscars red carpet, which I have been waiting for since January’s Golden Globe Awards.
Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Thursday said he remained hopeful that a new president would be elected soon as he held a series of high level meetings and...
Hezbollah described Wednesday’s decision by the Gulf Cooperation Council to designate the group a terrorist organization as reckless and aggressive.
All five main offices of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency were forcibly shut down Thursday by a committee of Palestinian factions.
The thundering shake of sewing machines drowns out the noises of children as a group of women learn a new craft.
Young people in Lebanon are showing increasing signs of hopelessness, as many start to believe that the situation in the country won’t improve.
Pictures have the power to change the world; some of the most iconic war photography of the 20th century have been seared into our collective memory.
U.S. interim Ambassador to Lebanon Richard H. Jones was briefed on the situation on the southern border Thursday by UNIFIL force commander Maj. Gen. Luciano...
Economists predicted a further downgrade of Lebanon’s sovereign credit rating in 2016, noting that the GDP growth could reach 0.7 percent this year.
At least three GCC countries will participate in the Annual Arab Banking Conference for 2016 taking place at the end of this month, said Wissam Fattouh,...
BLOM MPI warned that the economic slowdown in GCC states and political stalemate in Lebanon could reflect negatively on the overall performance of the...
The Arab world, led by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia – already with 100 percent mobile broadband penetration – is increasingly being connected by...
A Qatar-based media group that has already moved into international sports broadcasting by taking full control of the film studio Miramax, part of its...
Egypt and Gulf Arab crude producers have yet to let Saudi Arabia’s regional rival Iran resume oil shipments through a pipeline they operate to supply...
European banks are having a hard time making money. The 12 largest lenders earned 18¢ on average for every $100 in assets last year, while their six biggest...
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Sweating and hopeful, the performers lined up once more and received instructions mirroring the aspirations of the soon-to-open massive amusement parks they...
Lebanon is an entity that is recognized by the international community as a state within established geographic boundaries.
In a recent article in the Eurasia Review, the Lebanese military analyst Riad Kahwaji identified a troubling relationship between Daesh (ISIS)-inspired...
During a recent trip to Argentina I was talking to an old friend, a successful psychiatrist, about Jorge Luis Borges, the famous Argentinean writer considered...
Turmoil has seized much of the Muslim world. In Syria, a brutal war has already taken 250,000 lives, displaced half of the country’s 21 million people, and...
A hotline set up by the U.S. State Department to log reported violations of the cessation of hostilities in Syria has suffered from a lack of fluent...
The United States delivered eight Black Hawk helicopters to Jordan Thursday to help its regional ally defend itself against the threat of Daesh (ISIS)...
United Nations aid chief Stephen O’Brien Thursday warned countries not to take any steps that would reverse the recent increase in emergency aid for Yemen...
EU President Donald Tusk sent a stark message Thursday to would-be economic migrants not to come to Europe as the bloc seeks to get a grip on the crisis.
Russian and Syrian government forces have been targeting hospitals as a strategy of war in Syria’s conflict, according to a report released by a rights group...
Five militants killed by Tunisian forces near the Libyan border had slipped across with the aim of carrying out “terrorist attacks,” Prime Minister Habib...
Turkish police shot dead two female militants Thursday after they fired shots and threw a grenade at a Turkish police bus in Istanbul, local media and the...
Planning is at an advanced stage, special forces are already on the ground and air power assets are being moved within range: A new Western military...
Deep in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, the ancient Berbers live on, defying a harsh environment and remaining loyal to their traditions and way of life in some of...
Government neglect in central Tunisia, where poverty and unemployment rates are several times the national average, risks undermining the gains of its...
From across the ocean, Bernie Sanders has managed to offend a good number of Romanians.
Europe’s bemusement at the rise of Donald Trump has switched to concern as his U.S. presidential campaign has gained ground in what observers said was a...
Standing in a line of thousands outside an arena at Colorado State University, Aleksandr Cronk contemplated the grim possibility that the man he was waiting...
There is no way Mexico would fund Donald Trump’s “terrible” plan to build a wall along its border with the United States if the Republican front-runner wins...
North Korea fired six short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast Thursday, South Korean officials said, just hours after the U.N. Security...
France and Britain Thursday inked a deal to invest more than 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) in the development of combat drones, Paris said in a statement.
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“London Has Fallen” never pretends to be anything it’s not. The sequel to Antoine Fuqua’s big, dumb, kind of fun “Olympus Has Fallen” is bigger, dumber and...
Celebrity couple Kate Mara and Jamie Bell hit Paris Fashion Week Wednesday at the star-studded H&M; catwalk show, alongside attendees actress Emma Roberts and...
Family-friendly, practical SUVs rub elbows with exotic and fearsomely expensive sports cars at this year’s Geneva International Motor Show.
Inspiration plays a key role in car design. It doesn’t just influence an automobile’s finishing touches, but in fact sets the tone for development from the...
The anti-doping laboratory that will test athletes during this year’s Olympic Games will be fully WADA compliant by this month’s deadline, Rio organizing...
Kimi Raikkonen registered the fastest time in Formula One testing this season on the third day of the second test in Barcelona, showcasing the new cockpit...
Kawhi Leonard tallied 27 points as the San Antonio Spurs clinched their 19th straight playoff berth and remained unbeaten at home with a 97-81 win over the...
Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick as Barcelona took another step towards the La Liga title and set a new Spanish football record of 35 games unbeaten in the...
Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce has said that Adam Johnson’s guilty plea to a child sex charge came as a “massive shock” to him as he was under the...
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture organized the second and final workshop for its annual Arab Documentary Photography Program this week.
After making lyrical, rapturous films set in the Pacific theater of World War II (“The Thin Red Line”) and Jamestown (“The New World”), Terrence Malick has...