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UPDATED: Hungary buys Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, first in EU

UPDATED: Hungary buys Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, first in EU

Hungary has signed a deal to buy Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the first European Union country to do so, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a briefing during talks in Moscow on Friday. In a live video posted on his Facebook page, Szijjarto told a joint briefing with Russia's ...

Pfizer cuts vaccine deliveries by as much as half to some EU countries

Pfizer cuts vaccine deliveries by as much as half to some EU countries

Pfizer has slashed in half the volume of COVID-19 vaccines it will deliver to some EU countries this week, government officials said, as frustration over the U.S. drugmaker’s unexpected cut in supplies grows. Romania got only 50% of its planned volume for this week, the other half being...

Pete Buttigieg wins bipartisan support from senators to head the U.S. Transportation Department

Pete Buttigieg wins bipartisan support from senators to head the U.S. Transportation Department

Pete Buttigieg, Democratic President Joe Biden's nominee to head the U.S. Transportation Department, won bipartisan support from senators at a Thursday confirmation hearing, where he said it was possible new gas tax revenue could fund infrastructure. "We need to look at any respons...

Malta Development Bank supports EUR29.3m investment in 96 local SME projects

Malta Development Bank supports EUR29.3m investment in 96 local SME projects

SMEs across a number of different economic sectors have undertaken new investment in 96 projects worth more than €29 million, with the support of the Malta Development Bank’s Loan Guarantee Scheme for SMEs. This investment is intermediated through Bank of Valletta, implementing partner of ...

Malta: Central Link project targeting October completion date

Malta: Central Link project targeting October completion date

L-Orizzont speaks with the CEO of Infrastructure Malta, Frederick Azzopardi, who announced that the Central Link is two-thirds complete and that he expects the project to be finished by October. The paper reports on an EU leaders’ summit on Thursday discussing the vaccination programmes...

Malta: FIAU resists court order to review fines

Malta: FIAU resists court order to review fines

The Times reports that the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit will not review its system of fines despite a recent court order that sanctions cannot be higher than a tenth of the total annual turnover of a business. Another story reports on an angry outburst in court by the Degiorgio ...

Pfizer cuts vaccine deliveries by as much as half to some EU countries

Pfizer cuts vaccine deliveries by as much as half to some EU countries

Pfizer has slashed in half the volume of COVID-19 vaccines it will deliver to some EU countries this week, government officials said, as frustration over the U.S. drugmaker’s unexpected cut in supplies grows. Romania got only 50% of its planned volume for this week, the other half being...

EU to tighten travel curbs for virus hot spots as third wave fears mount

EU to tighten travel curbs for virus hot spots as third wave fears mount

The European Commission proposed to EU leaders on Thursday identifying "dark red" coronavirus hot spots from which all but essential travel would be discouraged after a meeting to discuss the mounting challenge from more infectious virus variants. EU leaders also agreed during a video c...

Volkswagen faces EU fine for missing 2020 emissions targets

Volkswagen faces EU fine for missing 2020 emissions targets

Volkswagen faces a fine of more than 100 million euros ($121 million) for missing EU targets on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its 2020 passenger car fleet, the world's largest carmaker said on Thursday. It cut average CO2 emissions in the fleet in the European Union by around 20% ...

UK stars from Ed Sheeran to Elton John raise alarm over post-Brexit music tours

UK stars from Ed Sheeran to Elton John raise alarm over post-Brexit music tours

More than 100 British musicians, from Ed Sheeran, Sting and Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters to classical stars like conductor Simon Rattle, have said tours of Europe by British artists are in danger because of Brexit. In a letter to The Times newspaper published on Wednesday, the musicians sa...

Brexit responsible for food supply problems in N.Ireland, Ireland says

Brexit responsible for food supply problems in N.Ireland, Ireland says

Food supply problems in Northern Ireland are due to Brexit because there are now a certain amount of checks on goods going between Britain and Northern Ireland, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said. British ministers have sought to play down the disruption of Brexit in recent days....

UK and EU in row over bloc’s diplomatic status

UK and EU in row over bloc’s diplomatic status

Britain is refusing to give full diplomatic status to the European Union’s ambassador in London, causing a row between the recently divorced parties, the BBC reported on Thursday. Britain, an EU member for 46 years, voted to quit in 2016 and completed its tortuous journey out of the blo...

Photo story: -11 degrees Celsius in Moscow

Photo story: -11 degrees Celsius in Moscow

Scenes from the streets of the Russian capital Moscow as the temperature dropped to minus 11 degrees Celsius. Via EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV

Maltese Editors’ Perspectives

Maltese Editors’ Perspectives

Times of Malta says that there should be more data transparency regarding Covid-19 vaccinations. The Independent echoes this call, saying authorities should be more forthcoming with information in their quest to control the spread of the virus. L-Orizzont says that US President Joe B...

Australia’s Victoria state records 16 days with no community COVID; nationwide no local cases for 5 days

Australia’s Victoria state records 16 days with no community COVID; nationwide no local cases for 5 days

Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria eased social gathering restrictions on Friday after recording 16 days without any new coronavirus infections in the community, doubling the number of people allowed to gather at home to 30. The state, which will host the Australian Open...

UPDATED: Syria reports Israeli military activity over Hama

UPDATED: Syria reports Israeli military activity over Hama

Syrian air defences confronted early on Friday "an Israeli aggression" in the region of Hama that killed four people from the same family, state media said. Israel has carried out…

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Syria says extinguishes huge fire near Homs refinery

Syria says extinguishes huge fire near Homs refinery

Syrian civil defence teams extinguished a huge fire that swept a number of oil tankers loading crude oil from an installation near the country’s main Homs refinery after a blast…

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Israel sharing COVID-19 data with Pfizer to help fine-tune vaccine rollout

Israel sharing COVID-19 data with Pfizer to help fine-tune vaccine rollout

srael is giving weekly data updates on its COVID-19 outbreak to vaccine maker Pfizer under a collaboration agreement that may help other countries fine-tune their inoculation campaigns and achieve "herd immunity", officials said. Israelis began receiving first shots of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and its German…

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Beirut blast chemicals possibly linked to Syrian businessmen – report, company filings

Beirut blast chemicals possibly linked to Syrian businessmen – report, company filings

BEIRUT/LONDON/MOSCOW, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The company that bought the ammonium nitrate which exploded in Beirut last August had possible links to two Syrian businessmen under U.S. sanctions for ties…

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Photo Story: Starlings in Jordan Valley

Photo Story: Starlings in Jordan Valley

A flock of a murmuration of starlings during their traditional dance before landing to sleep near the West Bank city of Jericho, in the Jordan valley, 15 January 2021. EPA-EFE/ATEF…

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Palestinians announce first elections in 15 years

Palestinians announce first elections in 15 years

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced parliamentary and presidential elections, the first in 15 years, in an effort to heal long-standing internal divisions. The move is widely seen as a response…

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Photo Story: Sheldon Adelson funeral in Jerusalem

Photo Story: Sheldon Adelson funeral in Jerusalem

Miriam Adelson, mourns next to the grave of her husband philanthropist and businessman Sheldon Adelson during his funeral, in Jerusalem, 15 January 2021. Adelson, the billionaire mogul and power broker…

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Photo Story: Anti-Netanyahu protest in Jerusalem

Photo Story: Anti-Netanyahu protest in Jerusalem

Anti-Netanyahu activists gather during a protest outside the Israeli Prime Minister's residence, in Jerusalem, Israel, on 13 January 2021. Protesters clashed with police, lit bonfires, and blocked roads. Israeli Prime…

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Israel’s Netanyahu removes Trump from his Twitter banner photo

Israel’s Netanyahu removes Trump from his Twitter banner photo

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu dropped U.S. President Donald Trump from the banner photo of his Twitter account on Tuesday in an apparent break with a political ally…

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Palestinians approve Russian COVID-19 vaccine for use in self-rule areas

Palestinians approve Russian COVID-19 vaccine for use in self-rule areas

MOSCOW/RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The health ministry of the Palestinian Authority has approved the main Russian vaccine against COVID-19, known as Sputnik V, for use in Palestinian…

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Palestinian Authority accuses Israel of shirking duty to ensure availability of vaccine

Palestinian Authority accuses Israel of shirking duty to ensure availability of vaccine

GAZA, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority said on Sunday it expects to receive its first COVID-19 vaccine doses in March under a deal with drugmaker AstraZeneca, and accused…

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After 54 years, first Mass on the site of the Baptism of Jesus

After 54 years, first Mass on the site of the Baptism of Jesus

St. John the Baptist Chapel, on the West Bank, has announced that it will reopen for Mass in January 2021. For over 50 years, the site has been unapproachable because…

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Israel tightens nationwide coronavirus lockdown

Israel tightens nationwide coronavirus lockdown

Israel tightened a national lockdown on Friday in a bid to curb a sharp rise in new COVID-19 cases, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising that all Israeli adults could…

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Iran resumes uranium enrichment programme

Iran resumes uranium enrichment programme

Iran has resumed 20% uranium enrichment at an underground nuclear facility, the government said on Monday, breaching a 2015 nuclear pact with major powers and possibly complicating efforts by U.S.…

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Israel’s defence minister favours buying one more F-35 squadron for now

Israel’s defence minister favours buying one more F-35 squadron for now

Israel's defence minister said on Monday that he wants the country to buy a third squadron of stealth F-35 warplanes from the United States, and that he hoped a deal…

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Israel dismisses “nonsense” Iran charge it seeks to trick U.S. into war

Israel dismisses “nonsense” Iran charge it seeks to trick U.S. into war

JERUSALEM, Jan 3 (Reuters) - An Israeli official on Sunday dismissed as "nonsense" an allegation by the Iranian foreign minister that Israel was trying to trick the United States into…

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Israel leads vaccine race with 1 million given jab

Israel leads vaccine race with 1 million given jab

Israel has given vaccinations against coronavirus to more than one million people, the highest rate in the world, as global immunisation efforts step up. Israel has a rate of 11.55…

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Lebanon can stretch reserves for six more months of subsidies, PM says

Lebanon can stretch reserves for six more months of subsidies, PM says

BEIRUT, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Lebanon can ration $2 billion in reserves left for subsidies to last six more months, the caretaker prime minister said on Tuesday, as the country's…

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Lebanon secures COVID-19 vaccines for 20% of its citizens – health minister

Lebanon secures COVID-19 vaccines for 20% of its citizens – health minister

BEIRUT, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Lebanon has secured about 2 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, which will cover 20% of the country's nationals, the health minister said on Monday.…

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Norway and Jordan confirm new Covid variant cases

Norway and Jordan confirm new Covid variant cases

The new variant of the coronavirus circulating in Britain has been detected in Norway and Jordan, as the two countries health authorities confirmed the variant in cases which concerned people…

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Hundreds of Syrians flee Lebanon camp after tents torched

Hundreds of Syrians flee Lebanon camp after tents torched

BEIRUT, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Syrian refugees fled their makeshift camp in north Lebanon after their tents were torched when fighting broke out between local youths and camp…

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Photo Story: Santa Claus in Jerusalem

Photo Story: Santa Claus in Jerusalem

Jerusalem Santa Issa Kassissieh rides a camel in the alleys of Jerusalem's Old City. Kassissieh has dressed up as Santa Claus in Jerusalem for a decade and had turned his…

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Right-wing challenge to Netanyahu builds ahead of Israeli election

Right-wing challenge to Netanyahu builds ahead of Israeli election

A right-wing challenge to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a March Israeli election gained momentum with the defection of a long-time ally to an upstart rival party. In a letter…

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Israel imposing third national COVID-19 lockdown

Israel imposing third national COVID-19 lockdown

Israel will impose a third national lockdown to fight climbing COVID-19 infections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. The curbs will come into effect on Sunday evening and last…

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Israel hopes for rapprochement with fifth Muslim country before Trump exit

Israel hopes for rapprochement with fifth Muslim country before Trump exit

Israel is working towards formalising relations with a fifth Muslim country during U.S. President Donald Trump's term, which ends next month, an Israeli government minister told Ynet TV on Wednesday.…

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Israel to hold snap election

Israel to hold snap election

Israel will hold a snap election in March after parliament failed on Tuesday to meet a deadline to pass a budget, triggering a ballot presenting new challenges for Prime Minister…

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Morocco hosts Israeli envoys, Kushner to hammer out new ties

Morocco hosts Israeli envoys, Kushner to hammer out new ties

RABAT (Reuters) - Israeli envoys arrived in Morocco on Tuesday to meet its king and hammer out an upgrade of ties that was forged by the White House in a…

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New archeological sites linked to early Christianity discovered in Gethsemane

New archeological sites linked to early Christianity discovered in Gethsemane

Fr. Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land showing the remains of a previously unknown church that was founded at the end of the Byzantine period (sixth century CE) at…

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Photo Story: A Christmas tree with a difference in Beirut

Photo Story: A Christmas tree with a difference in Beirut

A Christmas tree is decorated with uniforms of firefighters and rescuers of the Civil Defense to pay tribute to those who died at the Beirut port explosion on 04 August,…

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Photo Story: Christmas preparations in Syria

Photo Story: Christmas preparations in Syria

Syrian Christians gather in front of the Christmas tree at Sayyedet Dimasheq Church in Damascus, Syria, where a mass has been held to light the Christmas tree as part of…

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Christmas in Bethlehem Church of the Nativity

Christmas in Bethlehem Church of the Nativity

A local tourist visits the Church of Nativity ahead of the Christmas preparations in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, 20 December 2020. Palestinian Authorities imposed a total lockdown in…

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Invoking Bible and moonwalk, Netanyahu starts Israeli vaccination drive

Invoking Bible and moonwalk, Netanyahu starts Israeli vaccination drive

TEL HASHOMER, Israel, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Israel kicked off a coronavirus vaccination drive on Saturday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invoking the Bible and the 1969 lunar landing as he got…

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Photo Story: Christmas in Bethlehem

Photo Story: Christmas in Bethlehem

A view of the Christmas tree at the Manger Square while its empty from visitors, next to the Church of Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Bethlehem is…

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Ten years from the ‘Arab Spring’

Ten years from the ‘Arab Spring’

Tunisia’s revolution after a fruit seller killed himself a decade ago inspired a wave of revolt in Arab countries as people rose up to demand democracy. This is what happened…

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Lebanon’s collapse is like the Titanic’s sinking, only without the music – Le Drian

Lebanon’s collapse is like the Titanic’s sinking, only without the music – Le Drian

PARIS (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Lebanon's political and economic collapse was like the sinking of the Titanic, only without the music. "Lebanon is the Titanic…

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UAE, Israel export credit agencies sign agreement to boost trade

UAE, Israel export credit agencies sign agreement to boost trade

The export credit agencies of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel have signed a cooperation agreement to develop economic relations between the two countries, the UAE's state news agency…

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Veteran Palestinian negotiator Ashrawi to resign, calls for Palestinian political reforms

Veteran Palestinian negotiator Ashrawi to resign, calls for Palestinian political reforms

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Veteran Palestinian negotiator and women's rights advocate Hanan Ashrawi said on Wednesday she would quit her senior post in the Palestine Liberation Organization at the…

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Israel receives initial shipment of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine

Israel receives initial shipment of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine

JERUSALEM, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Israel received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday and a distributor predicted the country would have enough for about a quarter of the…

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Middle East – Rainbow of Peace and hope

Middle East – Rainbow of Peace and hope

People appear to stand at the bottom of a rainbow at the Dead Sea, Israel, 05 December 2020 . EPA-EFE/ABIR SULTAN

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Businessman linked to Sarkozy corruption allegations detained in Beirut

Businessman linked to Sarkozy corruption allegations detained in Beirut

Lebanon detained a French-Lebanese businessman linked to allegations of covert Libyan financing for former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign, two Beirut security sources said on Friday. The sources…

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Jerusalem church suffers damage in arson near Garden of Gethsemane

Jerusalem church suffers damage in arson near Garden of Gethsemane

Israeli police arrested a man for trying to set fire to an east Jerusalem church by the Garden of Gethsemane, the site revered by Christians as the place where Jesus…

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Lebanon investigates death of former customs official

Lebanon investigates death of former customs official

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese authorities are investigating the killing of a retired customs officer in what a leading politician described as a "terrible incident". Colonel Munir Abu Rjeili was found…

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Israel edges towards early election amid Netanyahu-Gantz feud

Israel edges towards early election amid Netanyahu-Gantz feud

Israel edged closer on Wednesday towards a fourth national election in two years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s main governing partner, Benny Gantz, backed an opposition move to dissolve parliament.…

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Lebanon says COVID cases rising, beds won’t suffice

Lebanon says COVID cases rising, beds won’t suffice

Lebanon will not have enough hospital beds to cope with increasing COVID-19 cases, the health minister in the caretaker government warned on Thursday, saying compliance with a two-week lockdown that…

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Israel receives its most advanced warship as Iran tensions rise

Israel receives its most advanced warship as Iran tensions rise

Israel received its most advanced warship on Wednesday, describing the German-made vessel dubbed “Shield” as a bulwark for vulnerable Mediterranean gas rigs as tensions with Tehran soar over the assassination…

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‘Christmas will not be cancelled’ says Bethlehem, amid little comfort or joy

‘Christmas will not be cancelled’ says Bethlehem, amid little comfort or joy

Bethlehem is shaping up for a dismal Christmas: most of the inns are closed, the shepherds are likely to be under lockdown and there are few visitors from the east,…

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Iran points finger at opposition, Israel on scientist murder

Iran points finger at opposition, Israel on scientist murder

A senior Iranian official said on Monday an opposition group was suspected alongside Israel in the killing of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist, an attack that has raised the prospect of a new standoff…

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Gaza gets vital medical aid as hospitals struggle with rising infections

Gaza gets vital medical aid as hospitals struggle with rising infections

The World Health Organization delivered 15 ventilators to Gaza hospitals on Sunday amid a spike in COVID-19 infections that has tested the Palestinian territory's under-developed health system. The donation of…

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Israel 2021 budget worth $129 billion to be presented to PM Monday

Israel 2021 budget worth $129 billion to be presented to PM Monday

Israel's Finance Ministry will present a long awaited 2021 state budget to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that will total 426 billion shekels ($128.5 billion), a ministry source said…

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Coronavirus infections skyrocket in Gaza Strip

Coronavirus infections skyrocket in Gaza Strip

Health experts in the Gaza Strip are sounding the alarm, saying the pandemic could soon rage out of control with hospitals there are wholly unprepared for the situation, and doctors…

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Israeli embassies on alert after Iran retaliation threats

Israeli embassies on alert after Iran retaliation threats

Israel put its embassies around the world on high alert on Saturday after Iranian threats of retaliation following the killing of a nuclear scientist near Tehran, Israeli N12 news reported.…

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Israeli cabinet minister confirms Netanyahu’s Saudi meeting

Israeli cabinet minister confirms Netanyahu’s Saudi meeting

A member of Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet and Likud party confirmed media reports on Monday that the Israeli prime minister had held a meeting in Saudi Arabia, calling it an "amazing…

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Veteran Syrian diplomat Mekdad named foreign minister

Veteran Syrian diplomat Mekdad named foreign minister

Syria’s President Bashar al Assad named veteran diplomat Faisal Mekdad as foreign minister on Sunday to replace Walid Moalem, who died last week, state media reported. Mekdad, 66, had been…

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Iran vows to defeat any Israeli attempt to harm its Syrian role

Iran vows to defeat any Israeli attempt to harm its Syrian role

Iran on Sunday vowed to defeat any Israeli attempt to harm its role in Syria, saying the era of "hit and run" attacks by Israel there was over, days after…

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Palestinian rocket fire draws Israeli air strikes in Gaza

Palestinian rocket fire draws Israeli air strikes in Gaza

Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel, drawing Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said on Sunday. There were no casualties reported on either side of…

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More than 60 prisoners escape Lebanese jail, say security sources

More than 60 prisoners escape Lebanese jail, say security sources

More than 60 prisoners broke out of a Lebanese jail on Saturday and five of them were killed when their car hit a tree while under pursuit, security sources and…

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Photo story: -11 degrees Celsius in Moscow

Scenes from the streets of the Russian capital Moscow as the temperature dropped to minus 11 degree...

Australia’s Victoria state records 16 days with no community COVID; nationwide no local cases for 5 days

Australia’s second most populous state of Victoria eased social gathering restrictions on Friday af...

KLM to cut 1,000 more jobs, says mandatory COVID-19 testing will ground planes

KLM said it would cut an additional 1,000 jobs in 2021 and warned on Thursday that government plans...

Poland says it could take legal action over Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine delay

Poland could take legal action against Pfizer next month if the U.S. drugmaker does not deliver all...

France warns fabric masks not enough to protect from COVID

The French government is now recommending that people wear surgical masks in public because they of...

Denmark halts all flight from Dubai for five days

Denmark has halted all flights arriving from the United Arab Emirates for five days due to potentia...

Bulgaria nuclear reactor shut after automatic defences activate

The Kozloduy nuclear power plant in Bulgaria has shut down one of its two 1,000 megawatt units afte...

UPDATED: Hungary buys Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, first in EU

Hungary has signed a deal to buy Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, the first European Union coun...

UPDATED: Syria reports Israeli military activity over Hama

Syrian air defences confronted early on Friday "an Israeli aggression" in the region of Hama that k...

Spain’s health minister to resign as COVID-19 cases hit new daily high

Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa will resign next week to campaign in regional elections in Ca...

Queen’s representative in Canada resigns after harassment allegations

Canadian Governor General Julie Payette, the representative of the country’s head of state, Queen E...

U.N. sets dates for Libyan transitional government selection

The United Nations Libya mission said that nominations for leadership of a new unified transitiona...

Google says it will shut search engine in Australia if forced to pay for news

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it would block its search engine in Australia if the governmen...

Former head of Vatican bank guilty of embezzlement, money laundering

A court in Italy on Thursday convicted Angelo Caloia, a former head of the Vatican bank, on charges...

Pete Buttigieg wins bipartisan support from senators to head the U.S. Transportation Department

Pete Buttigieg, Democratic President Joe Biden's nominee to head the U.S. Transportation Depar...

Biden seeks to require international air passengers to quarantine upon arrival

U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Thursday that would require international air...

Volkswagen faces EU fine for missing 2020 emissions targets

Volkswagen faces a fine of more than 100 million euros ($121 million) for missing EU targets on car...

Photo Story: Cold winter weather grips Peshawar

Children warm themselves around a fire to beat the cold weather at a road side in Peshawar, Pakista...

Hong Kong considers two-week quarantine for flight crew

Hong Kong is considering ordering flight crew entering the Asian financial hub to quarantine for tw...

Distributor of China’s Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine says faces driver shortage

A Chinese distributor of Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine said on Thursday it is facing a shortage of dri...