Repeated bombings have crippled bridges, hospitals and factories. Many doctors and civil servants have gone unpaid for more than a year. Malnutrition and poor sanitation have made the Middle Eastern country vulnerable to diseases that most of the world has confined to the history books. In just three months, cholera ...

Russia is preparing to mount what could be one of its biggest military exercises since the cold war, a display of power that will be watched warily by Nato against a backdrop of east-west tensions. Western officials and analysts estimate up to 100,000 military personnel and logistical support could participate in ...

“We have no problems with the electricity file, but we will put it quietly as we will put up the apple file,” Information Minister Melhem al-Riyashi said ahead of a cabinet meeting at the Beit Din palace.

Agriculture has contributed nearly as much to climate change as deforestation by intensifying global warming, according to U.S. research that has quantified the amount of carbon taken from the soil by farming. Some 133 billion tons of carbon have been removed from the top two meters of the earth’s soil ...

Yearly mammograms starting at age 40 would prevent the most deaths from breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported in a challenge to more conservative recommendations that take into account both the harms and the benefits of screening. The study, led by Dr. Elizabeth Arleo, a radiologist specializing in mammography at Weill ...

Head of IDAL Nabil Itani said Tuesday that Lebanon was the only country in the region which recorded a positive growth in foreign direct investments in 2016 despite the political vacuum at that time. He projected that FDI is to grow by 15 percent in 2017.“We were the only country ...

Prime Minister Saad Hariri Tuesday hailed the Lebanese Army’s quick gains against Daesh (ISIS) on the northeastern border region as the “biggest vote of confidence in the role of the government, the state and the Army.” He also said the key to halting the waste of public funds is by ...

Plight of ordinary people being overlooked amid focus on missile launches and rising tensions between Pyongyang and Washington The Guardian Justin McCurry 23 August, 2017 Sanctions and the worst drought for almost two decades threaten to cause severe hardship for millions of people in North Korea, while the country’s leadership ...

The president admitted: ‘My original instinct was to pull out’ but said he’d bowed to advice from officials, and claimed he’d take a much tougher line with Pakistan The Guardian Julian Borger  22 August, 2017 Donald Trump has announced he will prolong the US military intervention in Afghanistan, which he ...

A total eclipse that crossed the sky from Oregon to South Carolina brought out throngs of spectators, who exulted in seeing the midday sky go briefly dark.   The New York Times By HENRY FOUNTAIN 21 August, 2017   CHARLESTON, S.C. — The United States basked in the glory of ...