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Donald Trump has unveiled a plan to fix “broken” Washington, a move that he has likened to draining a swamp. What’s his plan? The businessman-turned-politician has long cast himself as an outsider who can bring much-needed change to a dysfunctional and corrupt federal government. Here […]

Hillary Clinton holds a decisive advantage over Donald Trump in the competition for votes in the electoral college, leading in enough states to put her comfortably over the 270 majority needed to win the presidential election in November, according to a new SurveyMonkey poll of […]

In June 2014, ISIS stunned the world by seizing Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city. It was touted as proof that this group was a new kind of terrorist threat — one that could take and hold territory. Shortly afterward, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his […]

The food and drink company says in the coming decade the bulk of its drink brands will switch to low-sugar options. PepsiCo is accelerating its plans to move away from sugary drinks, pledging on Monday that two-thirds of its drinks will contain fewer than 100 […]

BEIRUT: What better innovation than something that goes straight to the stomach. Nahlan Saade, a fashion design graduate, has in just a few years built “Better from Scratch,” making her culinary mark as an entrepreneur. The start-up delivers homemade pastries that promise the basics of […]

BEIRUT: Jaiir Massoud, 24, has been working as an event planner ever since he was 16 years old. “My friends and I would talk to a pub owner, reserve the place for a night and work on our public relations skills to invite people. Same […]

NNA – Lebanese Forces leader, Samir Geagea, welcomed, at his Maarab residence on Monday, head the North Africa and Middle East Department at the French Foreign Ministry, Jérôme Bonnafont, in presence of French Ambassador to Lebanon, Emmanuel Bonne. Bonnafont reportedly conveyed to Geagea France’s concern […]

Daesh militants are taking heavy casualties as the Iraqi military and its allies continue their implacable advance on the city of Mosul. Iraq’s elite counter-terrorism forces prepare for an operation to re-take the Islamic State-held City of Mosul, outside Irbil, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 […]

Iraqi and Kurdish forces and US-led coalition forces have begun their assault on the Daesh-held city of Mosul in northern Iraq. Geopolitics expert Semyon Bagdasarov suggests that the White House is anxious to capture the city ahead of presidential elections next month, to demonstrate the […]