The Tripoli based Ministry of Health reported today that, Tripoli Children's Teaching Hospital has reopened its Electroencephalography (EEG) clin...

Privately owned Libyan airliner, Medsky, is making progress in discussions to launch direct flights to Bosnia Herzegovina’s capital Sarajevo.The revel...

Cuba reports record losses from the US embargo as foreign minister describes months of punishing blackouts.

The far-right Alternative for Germany is just short of a majority in a regional election.

Hafidh Ameir Hassan kept a low profile and was rarely seen in public with the president.

Kenya is due to start enforcing measures to restrict foreign nationals from operating small-scale businesses.

Lebanon says a recent Israeli escalation is jeopardising a US-brokered ceasefire meant to end the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

The comments came a day after Washington said it had struck Iranian oil tankers in response to Tehran's attacks on US warships in the region.

Board of Peace's Mladenov says Gaza, West Bank escalation makes two-state solution 'impossible' A top official within the US-backed Board of Peace on Monday said a failure to move forward in Gaza paired with rising violence in the occupied West Bank were making a two-state solution "impossible". Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza under the US-backed "Board of Peace" tasked with implementing an October ceasefire plan, was speaking at the Hili Forum in Abu Dhabi. "I would say that if Gaza continues the way it is now, or does not move into implementing... the plan that we have under the comprehensive plan, the two-state solution will become practically impossible," he said.

Israeli attacks kill one, injure 10 in southern Lebanon Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have killed one person and injured 10 others, according to the state-run National News Agency, citing the country’s health ministry. One person was killed in the village of Ar-Rihan, in Jezzine district, while nine people, including two children and three women, were injured in the al-Maslakh neighbourhood of Nabatieh city, the ministry’s emergency operations centre said. Another person was injured in Nabatieh al-Fawqa.

François Picard is pleased to welcome Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, Director of King’s Brazil Institute at the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London and Associate Professor in Brazil and Latin American Studies. According to Aruska, Brazil’s approaching elections can be viewed through the following prism: macroeconomic performance and political confidence are moving on different tracks. While headline indicators may suggest an economy performing relatively well, she argues that many Brazilians experience a much harsher reality shaped by the cost of living and a volatile job market.

Frequent water and power cuts, long queues for bottled water, poultry farms destroyed by the heat: these have been the scenes across Tunisia this summer as millions of people were affected by shortages in electricity and water. Our Observers say this is the result of years of underinvestment in infrastructure while the Tunisian president, for his part, blames "deliberate and planned acts of sabotage”. 

Amid considerable uncertainty over global economic growth, the prospect of higher interest rates and long-term government bond yields, and volatile energy prices, business activity worldwide has come under pressure. Trade disruptions resulting from higher customs duties, supply chain disruptions caused by geopolitical conflicts, and mounting challenges facing major international institutions have further compounded these pressures. These conditions underscore the need for resilient businesses

Islamic and Arab countries condemned Israel’s plans to expel Palestinians from Gaza, citing risks to US peace efforts.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has claimed more than 3,000 lives, according to latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO). To support the fight against Ebola, WHO is coordinating and funding the expansion of the Lita treatment centre in Ituri province.

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is nearing a standstill amid the Iran war. Now, Tehran says it’s finalizing a deal with Oman for a temporary, safe route through the strategic waterway.