BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament has ratified the international Arms Trade Treaty, angering Hezbollah legislators, some of whom walked out in protest. The 2014 treaty seeks to regulate international trade in conventional arms and prevent illicit...اقرأ المزيد
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The remaining parties to the Iran nuclear deal on Monday agreed to keep working to maintain trade with Tehran despite skepticism this is possible as US sanctions to choke off Iranian oil sales resume in November. US President...اقرأ المزيد
The Dutch are proud of the way they have created a country by fighting back the ocean — but when they started making their own earthquakes it proved a step too far. The tiny village of Zeerijp in the northern Netherlands looks ordinary on the surface,...اقرأ المزيد
BAGHDAD (AP) — Masked gunmen shot dead a human rights activist and mother of four outside a supermarket in Basra on Tuesday, a brazen afternoon assassination that threatens to worsen tensions in the southern city wracked by violent protests. A police...اقرأ المزيد
Five years after he was paralyzed in a snowmobile accident, a man in the US has learned to walk again aided by an electrical implant, in a potential breakthrough for spinal injury sufferers. A team of doctors at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota say the man,...اقرأ المزيد
In a village in Vietnam’s “elephant kingdom”, a vendor holds up a severed, dried tail dotted with coarse hairs she promises will bring good luck -– a grim new trade that is endangering the country’s few remaining elephants. “I’ll cut a hair...اقرأ المزيد
As doubts grow over China’s vast “Belt and Road” trade infrastructure project, the EU is launching an alternative plan for Asia that it says will not saddle countries with debt they cannot repay. EU member countries are expected to sign off on the...اقرأ المزيد
US President Donald Trump met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday during the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York to discuss joint cooperation in eradicating terrorism. The Egyptian presidency issued an official...اقرأ المزيد
Spanish charter airline Master Flights has announced the resumption of its direct routes from Barcelona to Luxor and Barcelona to Aswan, beginning April 2019. The move follows increased demand for both destinations, after Spain reduced its warnings on...اقرأ المزيد
Egyptian Meteorological Authority predicts moderate weather across the country’s northern coasts on Wednesday, while hotter weather is expected for Lower Egypt, Cairo, and north of Upper Egypt. Hottest temperatures will be present in the southern parts...اقرأ المزيد
