BEIRUT - Lebanon needs to quickly form a new government to stop a cycle of collapse and worsening economic and security conditions, caretaker prime minister Saad al-Hariri said on Monday, after a weekend of violent confrontations shook the capital. Beirut this weekend saw the worst violence since protests against the country’s
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Libya will face ‘catastrophe’ if oil blockade continues: Tripoli premier
BERLIN - Libya will face a “catastrophic situation” unless foreign powers put pressure on eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar to lift a blockade of oilfields that has cut output to almost zero, the country’s internationally recognized premier said on Monday. Since Friday, Haftar’s forces have closed Libya’s major oil ports in a
Four protesters, two policemen killed as Iraq unrest resumes
BAGHDAD - Six Iraqis including two police officers were killed and scores were wounded in Baghdad and other cities on Monday in clashes with security forces, medical and security sources said, as anti-government unrest resumed after a lull of several weeks. Three protesters succumbed to their wounds in a Baghdad hospital
Lebanon president to chair crisis talks over weekend violence
Beirut-Lebanon’s under-fire president is set to meet Monday with top security officials to discuss rare violence over the weekend that left hundreds wounded in the protest-hit country. Michel Aoun will be joined by the care-taker ministers of the interior and defense as well as the chiefs of the military and security
Iran has not ruled out talks to end nuclear dispute, says official
DUBAI - Iran said on Monday that it had not closed the “door to negotiations” in efforts to resolve a dispute over its nuclear agreement with world powers that has escalated steadily since the United States withdrew from the deal in 2018. Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said any further move