Amnesty raps France over Lebanon's weapons use Amnesty International on Thursday urged Paris to halt weapons sales to Lebanon, saying French-manufactured rubber bullets, tear gas grenades and launchers had been used to quell peaceful demonstrations.
Amnesty raps France over Lebanon's weapons use Amnesty International on Thursday urged Paris to halt weapons sales to Lebanon, saying French-manufactured rubber bullets, tear gas grenades and launchers had been used to quell peaceful demonstrations.
Biden pauses Trump policies as Blinken takes diplomatic helm The Biden administration on Wednesday paused or put under review a wide swath of Trump-era foreign policies as America’s new top diplomat took the helm of the State Department.
Biden targets Trump's Middle East legacy Former US president Donald Trump's mould-breaking approach has reshaped decades of Middle East diplomacy, but his legacy in the troubled region has quickly come under attack from his successor.
Only reform can improve rating of Lebanon: Moody's Rating agency Moody’s maintained its C rating of Lebanon to reflect the county’s failure to find a solution to for the mounting losses for the bondholders and implement needed reforms.
Only reform can improve rating of Lebanon: Moody's Rating agency Moody’s maintained its C rating of Lebanon to reflect the county’s failure to find a solution to for the mounting losses for the bondholders and implement needed reforms.
Saudi Arabia's futuristic city project in talks over cloud computing deal Saudi Arabia's futuristic city project NEOM is in talks with companies to pick a lead partner for its first cloud computing deal that will lay the foundation for hi-tech services in its flagship $500 billion business zone, a senior executive said.
COVID-19 pummels U.S. economy in 2020; performance weakest in 74 years The U.S. economy contracted at its sharpest pace since World War Two in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic depressed consumer spending and business investment, pushing millions of Americans out of work and into poverty.
The promise and peril of the bio-revolution Realizing the potentially huge benefits of breakthroughs in biological science and advanced data analytics will require us to think carefully about how to mitigate the potentially severe risks.
The promise and peril of the bio-revolution Realizing the potentially huge benefits of breakthroughs in biological science and advanced data analytics will require us to think carefully about how to mitigate the potentially severe risks.
Lebanon needs foreign policy or sink into irrelevance Lebanon is in desperate need to formulate a foreign policy to advance its national interests, or risks being sidelined
Everton denied as Pickford howler rescues Leicester Jordan Pickford was punished for the latest in a long list of embarrassing errors as the blundering Everton goalkeeper allowed Youri Tielemans to rescue a 1-1 draw for Leicester Wednesday.
Everton denied as Pickford howler rescues Leicester Jordan Pickford was punished for the latest in a long list of embarrassing errors as the blundering Everton goalkeeper allowed Youri Tielemans to rescue a 1-1 draw for Leicester Wednesday.
Players warm up to strict quarantine at Australian Open Australian Open boss Craig Tiley said most players supported being locked down in hard quarantine with the local government reporting three new cases of COVID-19 linked to participants of the Grand Slam Tuesday.
Harden leads Nets over Heat, LeBron sparks Lakers James Harden believes the best is yet to come after producing a late burst of scoring to lead the Brooklyn Nets to a 98-85 victory over the Miami Heat Monday.
Brady, Buccaneers stun Packers 31-26 to reach Super Bowl Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers became the first team in NFL history to reach a home-turf Super Bowl Sunday with a 31-26 victory over the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field.
Australia, China F1 postponed as coronavirus hits 2021 calendar Formula One's Australian Grand Prix was postponed to November and China's race was put on hold indefinitely as the coronavirus forced a 2021 calendar rejig Tuesday.
Kitsch? Art? Serbia unveils nationalist monument Social media commentators have named the sculpture ‘Saruman on a Kinder Egg’ and critics said the Russian-made-and-designed sculpture resembles Soviet-era mega-size monuments more than traditional Serbian architecture. Financed by a UAE company, the statue is part of a project that includes Dubai-style shopping malls and high-rises
Kitsch? Art? Serbia unveils nationalist monument Social media commentators have named the sculpture ‘Saruman on a Kinder Egg’ and critics said the Russian-made-and-designed sculpture resembles Soviet-era mega-size monuments more than traditional Serbian architecture. Financed by a UAE company, the statue is part of a project that includes Dubai-style shopping malls and high-rises
Prototype performance fest pushed mostly online One of the leading international festivals of contemporary opera and theater has shifted format for its ninth edition because of the coronavirus pandemic
At Sundance, COVID dramas unfold onscreen and off Ben Wheatley made ‘In the Earth,’ a horror film set in the pandemic, over the summer. Carlson Young shot her fantasy-horror thriller ‘The Blazing World’ with a skeletal crew last August in Texas, with the cast quarantining together at a wedding resort. Most films made in 2020 are time capsules but that’s explicitly the purpose of Kevin Macdonald’s ‘Life in a Day 2020,’ composed of 15,000 hours of YouTube footage shot worldwide in a single day
Larry King, broadcasting giant for half-century, dies at 87 Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday.
At Fendi, Kim Jones brings Virginia Woolf chic to Paris Kim Jones' debut collection for Fendi as a womenswear designer tapped the bohemian, literary world of Virginia Woolf on Wednesday, bringing bookish glamour to his first haute couture runway show.
At Fendi, Kim Jones brings Virginia Woolf chic to Paris Kim Jones' debut collection for Fendi as a womenswear designer tapped the bohemian, literary world of Virginia Woolf on Wednesday, bringing bookish glamour to his first haute couture runway show.
WHO team in Wuhan departs quarantine for COVID origins study A World Health Organization team emerged from quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to start field work in a fact-finding mission on the origins of the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.
EU tells Google, Facebook and Twitter to extend fake news watch, COVID-19 in focus The European Commission has told Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft to continue monthly reports on their efforts to tackle fake news, especially on COVID-19, for another six months.
Norway first to over 50% electric in 2020 new car sales: industry group Norway became the first country in the world where electric cars accounted for more than 50 percent of new registrations in 2020, according to figures published Tuesday by an industry group.
Biden: 'We can't wait any longer' to address climate crisis In the most ambitious U.S. effort to stave off the worst of climate change, President Joe Biden signed executive orders to transform the nation’s heavily fossil-fuel powered economy into a clean-burning one, pausing oil and gas leasing on federal land and targeting subsidies for those industries.
