Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Nuhad al-Mashnouk, reiterated in the northern capital, tripoli, that the Lebanese are the ones electing their new parliament. Minister Mashnouk’s words followed his meeting with Northern Governor, Ramzi Nohra, in presence of security officers in Tripoli’s Serail. the minister also confirmed the good securuty and ...

More legally questionable and reckless military interventions are not what British people want from their government These are serious times. Following the missile attacks on Syria, now is the moment for a powerful push for peace. Boris Johnson’s blithe acceptance on Sunday that the conflict will now continue on its ...

Iraq will negotiate in the coming days with U.S. companies to buy U.S. rice, the trade ministry. The ministry also contracted to buy 200,000 tons of locally produced sugar and 71,000 tons of locally produced vegetable oil, it said in a statement.

The Cyprus government deposited Tuesday 2.5 billion euros ($3.1 billion) into the island-nation’s troubled Cooperative Bank in an attempt to dispel any uncertainty over its future. Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said he hoped the deposit, mainly in the form of a bond issue, aimed to protect savers and quash any ...

Dr. Maya Mustafa Hammoud, whose family originates from the southern Lebanese town of Tebnine, represents a new successful story of the Lebanese Diaspora promoting the positive image of Lebanon around the world. Professor of Learning Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maya became the 52nd President of the Association of ...

    The Defence Logistics Agency reportedly misstated hundreds of millions of dollars in project spending   The US Defence Department can’t account for more than $800m(£571m) in spending, according to an audit of one of its agencies. A review of the Defence Logistics Agency, a subsection of the Defence Department, shows ...

More than 3,000 boys and girls recruited by militias and armed groups over past year   At least 1.3 million people have been displaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo by inter-ethnic violence and clashes between the regular army, militia and armed groups, according to a Unicef report. More than 800,000 ...

On balance, it could be argued that, one year in, Trump has continued large swathes of Obama’s foreign policy, with more purpose, a lot more noise, but also – to a limited degree – more success   You can understand why Donald Trump might have baulked at flying halfway around ...

Billionaire says social media companies’ ‘days are numbered’ Soros warns of ‘far-reaching adverse consequences’ for democracy   Facebook and Google have become “obstacles to innovation” and are a “menace” to society whose “days are numbered”, said billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros at the World Economic Forum in Davos on ...

Two-hour outage for passport processing on Monday evening not thought to be malicious, authorities say   Immigration desk computers at various US airports went down for about two hours on Monday, causing long lines for travellers entering the United States, according to Customs and Border Protection and posts on social ...