A total of 7 billion euros (7.5 billion U.S. dollars) were pledged by the international community at the “Together for the people of Türkiye and Syria” International Donors’ Conference on Monday. The conference was hosted [Read More]
Lebanon on Monday launched a 122-million-U.S. dollar project to construct a new terminal at the Rafic Hariri International airport in the capital of Beirut as the passenger numbers continue to increase. Ali Hamieh, Lebanese public [Read More]
Rita el-Husseini stares carefully at the price tags set in U.S. dollars at a supermarket in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. She holds her mobile phone to calculate the price of each item she needs [Read More]
The new president of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, called for stronger European Union (EU) engagement in efforts to resolve the Cyprus issue during an official visit to Athens, Greece. “I briefed (Greece’s Prime [Read More]
The Lebanese currency on Tuesday collapsed to 100,000 Lebanese pounds (LBP) per dollar for the first time in history as the country’s financial crisis and political deadlock linger on. The value of the Lebanese currency [Read More]
Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the Arab League (AL), on Tuesday called for the speedy election of a new president in Lebanon, warning about the “dangerous” political vacuum in the country. “There will be a [Read More]
Representatives of Sweden, Finland and Türkiye held talks in Brussels on Thursday to discuss progress on fulfilling Türkiye’s conditions for agreeing to the Nordic countries’ accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the military [Read More]
Türkiye’s capital Ankara has become a hub for hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors looking forward to starting a new life in the aftermath of the devastating quakes in their homeland. The capital hosts some [Read More]
Lebanon has restored its right to vote in the United Nations (UN) after paying its financial dues in the UN’s operational budget for 2022 and 2023, said the Lebanese foreign ministry on Tuesday. “Lebanon’s Ministry [Read More]
Brazil received 868,587 foreign tourists in the first month of 2023, 14.7 percent more than before the COVID-19 pandemic and the highest number in the last four years, the Ministry of Tourism reported Tuesday. January’s [Read More]
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