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Health minister says COVID cases rising, beds won't suffice

Lebanon will not have enough hospital beds to cope with increasing COVID-19 cases, the health minister in the caretaker government warned on Thursday, saying compliance with a two-week lockdown that ended this week had been patchy. In a Tweet, Hamad Hasan said cases were on the rise and...

Lebanon basketball players ditch game for better future

Basketball player Charles Tabet was once a national hero blocking shots for Lebanon, but a crumbling economy has forced him into a new life selling cars in Michigan. After a decade playing in his country of origin, the 33-year-old Lebanese-American last month returned to his native US state...

Ex-French president dies at 94 after contracting COVID

Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing died Wednesday at the age of 94 after contacting the novel coronavirus. His family said in a statement that he passed away at his home in the Loir-et-Cher region. He was hospitalized in the city of Tours on Nov. 17 due to respiratory...

'All armed elements have left Iraq's Sinjar'

All armed elements have left the Sinjar district in Iraq's northern Nineveh province, the country's Joint Operations Command claimed on Thursday. "According to the agreement between the central government and the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government [KRG], the federal forces are responsible...