The UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) has reported that poverty in Lebanon has “drastically increased” over the previous year and now affects about 82 percent of the population.
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A Palestinian in the besieged Gaza Strip was killed by Israeli forces, Gaza’s health ministry has said, as hundreds took part in a protest against Israel’s 14-year siege of the region. A
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On Friday, in a Russian airstrike in Syria’s Idlib province, one child was killed while two other civilians have been injured. The White Helmets, a search and rescue group operating in Syria’s
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A three-day ceasefire has come into effect in the besieged city of Daraa in southwestern Syria, after weeks of intense attacks by pro-Assad forces on the opposition-held enclave. On August 31, a
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The US is engaged with plans to revive its de-facto Palestine mission, the State Department proclaimed, which has been met with public opposition from Israel’s top diplomat. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid
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The United Nations has announced that it has allocated $10 million in humanitarian aid to Lebanon to help the cash-strapped nation buy vital fuel to power hospitals and water stations. “Lebanon faces
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Jordan’s Minister of State for Media Affairs, Sakher Dudin, said on Tuesday that the third and final phase of plans to revive segments to achieve a “safe summer” will enter into force
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On Wednesday, a US congressional delegation led by Senator Chris Murphy, the Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, met with
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On Tuesday, the Lebanese flour millers’ association warned that fuel shortages were threatening bread production and mills would gradually stop working after supplies ran out. “We are calling out to all concerned
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz met in the occupied West Bank, in the very first high-level meeting between the two sides in 7 years and the first
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