A strike that crippled public transport and closed schools across France entered a second day on Friday, with trade unions saying they planned to keep going until President Emmanuel Macron backs down from a planned reform of pensions. Rail workers voted to extend their strike through Friday, while labor unions ... Read More »
President Michel Aoun called for formal consultations on Monday with lawmakers to designate a new prime minister, a statement from the presidency said on Wednesday. Aoun is required to designate the candidate with the greatest support among Lebanon’s 128 lawmakers. The prime minister must be a Sunni Muslim according to ... Read More »
International Rescue Committee report says Yemen war will cost international community as much as $29 billion if it continues Even if the five-year war in Yemen were to end today, it would take two decades for the impoverished country’s children to reach the lesser level of malnutrition they suffered ... Read More »
NATO leaders set aside public insults ranging from “delinquent” to “brain dead” and “two-faced” on Wednesday, declaring at a 70th anniversary summit they would stand together against a common threat from Russia and prepare for China’s rise. Officials insisted the summit was a success: most notably, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ... Read More »
The United States has completed its military pullback in northeastern Syria, settling into a more stable posture of about 600 troops in the rest of the country after repositioning and reducing forces, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said. Esper’s remarks in an interview with Reuters could signal the end of a ... Read More »
China calls bill a ‘vicious attack’, coming days after Congress passed similar laws over Hong Kong The US House of Representatives has passed a bill calling for “targeted sanctions” against Chinese officials involved in the repression of Uighur Muslims. The bill, which also calls on Donald Trump to speak ... Read More »
U.S. President Donald Trump and French leader Emmanuel Macron clashed over the future of NATO on Tuesday before a summit intended to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Western military alliance. In sharp exchanges underlining discord in a transatlantic bloc hailed by backers as the most successful military pact in ... Read More »
Sudan’s new prime minister has said that residual US sanctions are hastening the collapse of the fragile country, warning that, should Sudan become a failed state, the destruction caused by Isis would be “small fry” in comparison. Speaking exclusively to The Independent before flying to Washington where he is expected to meet President ... Read More »
There will be plenty of applause when NATO leaders gather in London to celebrate seven decades of the most successful military alliance in history. But with a French president who calls it “brain dead”, a Turkish leader who is attacking U.S. allies and buying Russian weapons, and an American president ... Read More »
All eyes are focused on the tender held by the Energy Ministry to import 150 thousand tons of gasoline by the state’s oil facilities. In this regard, caretaker energy Minister Nada Boustani raised concerns over potential pressures that could have been exerted on the relevant companies so that they do ... Read More »
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