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IMF envoy meets Lebanon PM, parliament reconvenes

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati met on Tuesday with members of an International Monetary Fund delegation. The delegation was headed by Ernesto Ramirez-Rigo, the International Monetary Fund's head of mission for Pakistan, Middle East and Central Asia. The IMF resumed talks after the...

Jordan calls on Syria workers to renew work permits

Jordan's Ministry of Labour yesterday called on all Syrian workers who do not have work permits or who have not renewed them to proceed with the procedures to obtain a permit to legalise their employment in the kingdom. "Syrian workers have been exempt from the work permit and health...

What's behind Russia-Ukraine tensions?

MOSCOW (AP) — Ukrainian and Western officials are worried that a Russian military buildup near Ukraine could signal plans by Moscow to invade its ex-Soviet neighbor. The Kremlin insists it has no such intention and has accused Ukraine and its Western backers of making the claims to cover...

Whistleblower: As Afghanistan fell, UK abandoned supporters

 Britain’s Foreign Office abandoned many of the nation’s allies in Afghanistan and left them to the mercy of the Taliban during the fall of the capital, Kabul, because of a dysfunctional and arbitrary evacuation effort, a whistleblower alleged Tuesday. In devastating evidence to a...