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March 11, 2021 at 10:18 pm

For Syrians, a decade of displacement with no end in sight VIEW

BAR ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — Mohammed Zakaria has lived in a plastic tent in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley for almost as long as war has...

February 8, 2021 at 10:14 pm

Lebanese group gives a home away from home to health workers VIEW

BEIRUT (AP) — In the middle of the destroyed Beirut neighborhood of Gemmayzeh, a small team in masks and gloves were sanitizing and packing oxygen...

January 22, 2021 at 9:26 am

Top Lebanese hospitals fight exhausting battle against virus VIEW

BEIRUT (AP) — Death stalks the corridors of Beirut's Rafik Hariri University Hospital, where losing multiple patients in one day to COVID-19 has become the...

December 11, 2020 at 11:22 pm

Shadowy Ethiopian massacre could be ‘tip of the iceberg’ VIEW

UMM RAKOUBA, Sudan (AP) — The only thing the survivors can agree on is that hundreds of people were slaughtered in a single Ethiopian town....

December 5, 2020 at 11:07 pm

Ethiopia’s conflict stokes humanitarian and virus crisis VIEW

HAMDAYET, Sudan (AP) — Ethiopia’s month-long war in its northern Tigray region has severely hampered efforts to fight one of Africa’s worst coronavirus outbreaks, as...

December 3, 2020 at 11:42 am

Ethiopian forces said to block refugees from entering Sudan VIEW

HAMDAYET, Sudan (AP) — Ethiopian forces on Thursday blocked people fleeing the country’s embattled Tigray region from crossing into Sudan at the busiest border crossing...

Tigray refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, wait to get cooked rice served by Sudanese local volunteers at Um Rakuba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. Ethiopia’s government is again warning residents of the besieged capital of the embattled Tigray region as the clock ticks on a 72-hour ultimatum before a military assault, saying “anything can happen.” (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) NYOTK NYOTK

November 24, 2020 at 2:45 am

‘We just ran’: Ethiopians fleeing war find little relief VIEW

More than 40,000 people, some with no more than the clothes they have on, have fled the Ethiopian government’s offensive in the defiant Tigray region....

September 8, 2020 at 4:32 am

Model diplomacy: Israeli waves flag in UAE pajama photoshoot VIEW

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — It wasn't Camp David or the White House lawn, but for a brief, breezy moment on Tuesday, the Israeli...

Entertainment

September 20, 2019 at 7:45 am

Journalists see heart of Saudi oil industry after attack VIEW

BUQAYQ, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia took journalists on Friday to the site of a missile-and-drone strike on the kingdom's oil industry that shook...

Business

September 20, 2019 at 3:56 am

Saudis show media scorched, shrapnel-blasted oil facility VIEW

BUQAYQ, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry remained wrapped in scaffolding Friday as workers sought to repair the charred innards...