Lebanon's caretaker prime minister Hassan Diab urged the central bank on Tuesday to hand over missing documents needed for a forensic audit demanded by international creditors. In September, New York based firm Alvarez and Marsal started a forensic audit of the Bank of Lebanon as part of...

 Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday the U.S. presidential election’s result will not impact Tehran’s policy towards Washington. “Our policy towards the United States is clearly set and does not change with the movement of individuals. It does not matter...

A three-year-old girl was pulled out of the rubble alive on Tuesday days after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit Turkey's Aegean region. Ayda Gezgin was rescued in the Bayrakli district of the Aegean Izmir province 91 hours after the quake. Ayda, the 107th survivor to be rescued,...

The death toll from a powerful earthquake which hit western Turkey rose to 100 on Tuesday, the country's disaster authority said. The 7.0 magnitude quake also injured 994 people, the agency known by its Turkish acronym AFAD reported, with 147 still in hospital. It added that rescue...