UN warns that drastic action is needed to meet climate targets set in the Paris agreement   The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased at record speed last year to hit a level not seen for more than three million years, the UN has warned. The new report ...

Spanish officials say that even as he tweeted to suggest he was outside the regional presidency building, Carles Puigdemont was already making plans to escape to Belgium   The first working day for the administration of Catalonia, Europe’s newest “independent” country, unfolded in an extraordinary and dramatic fashion with its ...

The President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, said that the construction work is not easy, especially after all the years of destruction that have been exposed to everything in Lebanon. It needs all the Lebanese, for their solidarity first, and for their trust in themselves, their partners and their ...

Minister of Information Melhem Al-Riyashi, Director of the United Nations Information Center Margo El-Helou, accompanied by a delegation from the Center, including Cynthia Khoury, Maryam Sulaiman and Rasha Salman, and discussed means of cooperation between the Ministry and the Center. Al-Riyashi also received a delegation from the Sports Media Association ...

Comments come days after US House of Representatives votes for new sanctions on Iran   Iran will continue to produce missiles for its defence and does not consider that a violation of international accords, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday in a speech broadcast on state television. Mr Rouhani spoke days ...

Prime Minister Saad Hariri is slated to speak Friday night during an economy-focused forum at BIEL. Hariri is set to deliver a speech during the official dinner held at 8 p.m. on the occasion of launching the Lebanese National Energy forum. The forum titled “The Drive of the Economy” will ...

But several hundred pages have been withheld until next year   Donald Trump has ordered the release of 2,800 files relating to the assassination of John F Kennedy, but agreed to withhold hundreds of documents the US intelligence community still deems sensitive more than 50 years after the incident. The documents were published ...

Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil Wednesday pledged to crack down on corruption in the ministry’s real estate department and vowed to deliver the 2018 draft budget to Parliament for approval. The minister made the remarks during the opening of the Finance Ministry’s new online real estate service, which was launched ...

Lebanon’s Central Bank has the foreign-currency reserves it needs to keep the pound stable against the U.S. dollar at its pegged rate for the foreseeable future, the Central Bank governor said . Riad Salameh also told Reuters in an interview that since June the Central Bank has been engaged in ...

  PLAGUE warnings have been issued for NINE countries surrounding Madagascar amid fears the disease could spread via sea trade and flight routes. The outbreak is considered a much bigger threat to the region than in previous years because it has taken on its pneumonic form – meaning it is ...