Women’s rights groups welcome decision but warn that it could be overturned by a conservative-controlled Supreme Court.A federal judge has temporarily blocked a near-total ban on abortion in Texas, the toughest such law in

Why Lebanon’s Rafik Hariri tribunal must be funded until it completes its mandate NEW YORK CITY / BEIRUT: With the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) facing a severe financial crisis and the threat of imminent

LONDON: The death on Friday of Britain’s Prince Philip, the “strength and stay” of Queen Elizabeth II throughout the long years of her reign, is being mourned throughout the world, and nowhere more so

BEIRUT: While the official ministerial committee in Lebanon continues to ponder the allocation of ration cards to 800,000 families before lifting subsidies on basic goods, parties have rushed to absorb their supporters’ resentment. Hezbollah has

The vehicle with ‘Stop Globalisation Politics’ and ‘You damn killers of children and old people’ graffitied rams gate, causing no damage.A car crashed into the front gate of the building housing German Chancellor Angela

The US claims Haji Najibullah was involved in the 2008 kidnapping of a US journalist and two Afghan nationals.The US Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging Haji Najibullah, an Afghanistan national, with

LONDON: Iran must never develop a nuclear weapon, the UK's foreign secretary said on Thursday. The Islamic Republic “must comply with its nuclear commitments and preserve the JCPOA,” Dominic Raab said, referring to the

A plane carrying a prominent Russian politician who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning has left the Siberian city of Omsk for Germany, according to his spokeswoman.  The plane took off just

  The coronavirus seems to be accelerating in countries across the world with Australia the latest to announce a record number of daily cases - 723. The world's two worst-affected countries - the United

Chinese leaders observed a minute of silence for coronavirus victims at the start of its biggest political gathering of the year. The opening session of China's top political advisory body started one day before