The brightly colored minivan that pulls into Athens’ food market, drawing a group of refugees around it, is not carrying something edible. The contents – hundreds of books – are there to satisfy a different sort of hunger. For tens of thousands of refugees stuck in Greece for the past ...

Ten U.S. sailors are missing after a collision between the USS John S. McCain and a tanker early Monday east of Singapore, the second accident involving a ship from the Navy’s 7th Fleet in the Pacific in two months. The Navy said five sailors were hurt in the collision between ...

Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil relaunched a sewage treatment project in Batroun Sunday, the state-run National News Agency reported. “All of us, heads of municipalities and civil society, are keen to preserve our region and keep a watchful eye on this project to make it a new positive sign for all ...

The body of Ahmad al-Balli, a Lebanese national killed in last week’s terror attack in Burkina Faso, arrived in Beirut Sunday. Representatives of premier Saad Hariri received the body at Rafik Hariri International Airport, the state-run National News Agency reported. Mourning residents of Balli’s native village of Aazqi al-Dinnieh, in ...

The Lebanese Army had liberated two-thirds of Daesh- (ISIS) occupied territories on the outskirts of Ras Baalbeck and Al-Qaa by Sunday evening, killing 35 militants in the process as they seek to eradicate the last vestiges of militant threats to national security. Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and one critically ...

RT 21 August, 2017 The Lebanese army has scored major victories in the ongoing offensive against Islamic State terrorists along the Syrian border, securing over a dozen of outposts, and raising a Spanish flag in solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attacks in Catalonia. The Lebanese army seized 80 ...

The Telegraph 18 August, 2017 by Helena Horton, Barney Henderson, Robert Midgley At least 13 people were killed and 100 injured on Thursday when a driver deliberately slammed a van into crowds on Barcelona’s most popular street in what police confirmed was a terror attack. The attack, the latest in a wave ...

Parliament Wednesday repealed Penal Code Article 522, known as the “marry your rapist law,” following years of campaigning by women’s rights advocates. Adopted from the 1810 French Penal Code, the law exonerated a rapist if they married their victim. The abolition was welcomed by concerned organizations, however many said yet ...

The President repeatedly said the media present was ‘fake’ and did not report the whole story The Independent 15 August, 2017 Mythili Sampathkumar Donald Trump has attacked who he referred to as the “alt-left” protesters in Charlottesville, claiming that blame should be shared by both sides. His comments appeared to ...

‘The die would be cast on Day One. Whitehall needs to be preparing now for a range of possible scenarios that could unfold in the coming months.’ The Independent Will Worley 16 August, 2017 A “new Korean War is now a real possibility,” partly because Donald Trump “is so volatile ...