A bill that would let the families of those killed in the Sept. 11 attacks sue Saudi Arabia for any role in the terrorist plot passed the Senate unanimously on Tuesday, bringing Congress closer to a showdown with the White House, which has threatened to […]
In many ways, life is not so bad for Egypt’s deposed ruler, Hosni Mubarak. At the Cairo hospital he calls home, he enjoys regular deliveries of flowers, newspapers and takeout restaurant meals; visits from his wife, two sons and grandchildren; and a sweeping view over […]
Day got the idea of a coalition with Hariri in the municipality of Beirut elections, Michel Aoun to the table, turning the search to what looks like an operating room for a battle of destiny. I attended all the possibilities. Brightest and antibody. Each dimensional […]
A 20-year-old Lebanese man was wounded during a personal dispute in the northeastern border town of Arsal, state media reported Friday. The National News Agency said that a quarrel had erupted between several men over the construction of a wall in the village. The verbal […]
Mustafa Amine Badreddine, Hezbollah’s top military commander, who was directing its operations in Syria and was accused in a string of deadly attacks stretching across decades, has been killed in Damascus, Hezbollah officials confirmed on Friday. Mr. Badreddine, 55, had been overseeing Hezbollah’s forces in […]
Brazil entered a new era Thursday as interim president Michel Temer took power from suspended leader Dilma Rousseff, installing a business-friendly government that ends 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America’s biggest nation. The center-right former vice president wasted no time in putting his […]
Metropolitan Jean-Clément Jeanbart, of the Melkite Archdiocese of Aleppo, Syria, has warned that the ongoing exodus of Christians from the Middle East — fleeing war and persecution — is an “apocalyptic and fatal” development. Jeanbart said that the “exodus of Christians” is as “a form […]
Adnan Gimaah was perhaps the sourest purveyor of sweets in the old souk of Damascus. If a customer questioned the quality of his wares, he snorted impatiently. If they haggled too hard, he invited them to leave. His idea of small talk was to grumble […]
THE DAY I ARRIVED in Beirut I was collected at my hotel by Huda Baroudi, a cheerful woman who had offered to show me around. It was a lazy Sunday, grim and gray, and I was jet-lagged. But her eyes were shining and she was […]
After a day of sleeping, praying and even swimming in the Green Zone, the government citadel historically off limits to ordinary Iraqis, protesters began leaving Sunday evening on orders from the man who had sent them:Moktada al-Sadr, the influential Shiite cleric. In a statement issued […]
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