The US on Thursday called Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's decision to pardon more than 100 political opponents ahead of parliamentary elections a "farce." "The Maduro regime’s announcement of conditional dismissal of criminal charges against roughly one-third of the political...

France's intelligence chief has joined efforts to push Lebanon to deliver a new government and reforms, Lebanese sources said Thursday, buttressing President Emmanuel Macron's bid to pull the country out of a devastating economic crisis. Macron is centre stage in international efforts to...

Beirut port's capacity to handle wheat and other bulk cereal imports has collapsed to about a fifth or less of its level before a massive blast smashed its grain silos and other facilities, a senior UN official said Thursday. But Abdallah Alwardat, the country director for the World Food...

Facebook Inc said Thursday it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the US presidential election in November, bowing to concern that its loose approach to free speech could once again be exploited to interfere with the vote. The world's biggest social network also said...