The UK and European Union will Wednesday sign a mammoth trade pact to put the seal on their drawn-out Brexit divorce in the dwindling hours before they part ways definitively at the dawning of 2021. EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel will ink the 1,246-page Trade and...

Lebanon can ration $2 billion in reserves left for subsidies to last six more months, the caretaker prime minister said on Tuesday, as the country’s financial meltdown raises fears of rising hunger. Lebanon’s worst crisis since its 1975-1990 civil war has crashed the currency and sent...

The Russian military says three of its troops were wounded during an attack by militants in northwestern Syria.  The chief of the Russian military’s Reconciliation Center in Syria said that militants fired an anti-tank missile at a Russian armored personnel carrier on Tuesday and...

Rights groups on Tuesday demanded that Palestinian authorities free a woman disc jockey arrested after a dance event at a Muslim religious site near the West Bank city of Jericho.  Palestinian Authority police arrested Sama Abdulhadi, 30, on Sunday, the day after she performed at Nebi...