Lebanon filed a complaint with the UN Security Council over the abduction of a Lebanese shepherd by Israeli soldiers from a border area earlier this week, local media reported Thursday.
BEIRUT (AP) — The World Bank approved a $246 million loan to Lebanon to provide emergency cash assistance to nearly 800,000 Lebanese reeling under the country’s compounded economic and health crises. The World Bank said in a statement late Tuesday the loan would also support the...
Iran’s military launched a short-range naval missile drill on Wednesday, Iranian state TV reported, at a time of high tension between arch foes Tehran and Washington. Iran has one of the biggest missile programmes in the Middle East, regarding such weapons as an important deterrent and...
A refugee who fled war in the Middle East claims "life in Hull is the same as in Iraq" due to her 'squalid' living conditions. Wheelchair user Intesar Hassan, 55, and her four children fled war in both Iraq and Syria before being moved to Hull by the United Nations in 2012. But since...
