The 10 firefighters who received the call a bit before 6 p.m. - alerting them of a big fire at the nearby port of Beirut - could not know what awaited them. The brigade of nine men and one woman could not know about the stockpile of ammonium nitrate warehoused since 2013 along a busy...

Israel's landmark deal with the UAE to normalise ties could see businesses from the Jewish state operating on arch-rival Iran's doorstep, but are unlikely to disturb Emirati economic ties to Iran. It could also pave the way for direct economic engagement between Israeli and UAE-based...

Days ahead of a final deadline, activation of a long-planned Algeria-EU trade deal risks unravelling as political and business leaders in the North African country warn it will undermine economic sovereignty. The deal is meant to come into effect on September 1, a decade and a half after...

The new coronavirus is circulating four times more among people under 40 in France than among over 65-year-olds, France's health minister said, though he warned that contamination was on the rise among the elderly and more vulnerable too. "We're in a risky situation," Olivier Veran said in...