Israel approved 2,166 new homes in settlements across the occupied West Bank Wednesday, official figures sent to AFP showed, ending an eight-month lull in settlement expansion. The approvals came less than a month after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed agreements to normalise...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah and its ally Amal criticised on Wednesday the delegation set to negotiate with Israel over their disputed sea border, calling for changing the team hours before the first meeting. Formally still at war after decades of conflict, Lebanon and Israel agreed to launch...

Two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut blasted off on a fast-track journey to the International Space Station Wednesday, in the first such launch aboard a Russian capsule since SpaceX's game-changing debut manned flight from US soil. Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos and...

The facility at Al-Faiha Stadium will operate 120 beds for people requiring oxygen, but has capacity for 100 more. The health ministry has reported 4,774 cases of Covid-19 and 228 deaths in government-held areas since March. However, experts believe the actual figures are significantly...