PPolitics Read More5 minute read Donald Trump Tests Positive for Everything, According to His Own DoctorbyNews Week MeApril 23, 2018 Donald Trump tests positive for every medical ailment. All of them. Supposedly, thatâs what his doctor saysâor at…
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FFeatures Read More4 minute read Saudi Arabia: The Bold And The DutifulbyNews Week MeMarch 18, 2018 Over the past century, three countries have led the Middle Eastâs political hegemony: Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran.…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Turkeyâs Erdogan Chastises U.S. Over Support for Syrian KurdsbyNews Week MeFebruary 16, 2018 By Daren Butler ISTANBUL, Feb 10 â Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan upbraided the United States for its support…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Iranâs Revolutionary Guards Question U.S. Sailors, Dismiss Talk of Prompt ReleasebyNews Week MeFebruary 16, 2018 DUBAI, Jan 13 â Iranâs Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday it was interrogating 10 American sailors it had…
WWorld Read More4 minute read Iran Holds 10 American Sailors; U.S. Expects Their Prompt ReturnbyNews Week MeFebruary 16, 2018 WASHINGTON/BEIRUT, Jan 13 â Iran detained 10 U.S. sailors aboard two U.S. Navy boats in the Gulf on…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Cruz Exits Republican Race, Leaves Himself A Path ForwardbyNews Week MeFebruary 15, 2018 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 4 â U.S. Republican Ted Cruz carefully left the door open to a future run for president on Tuesday…
WWorld Read More1 minute read Air France Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Kenya After Bomb ScarebyNews Week MeFebruary 14, 2018 NAIROBI, Dec 20 â An Air France flight from Mauritius diverted and made an emergency landing at Kenyaâs…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Philippines Rejects Daeshâs Claim It Killed 100 TroopsbyNews Week MeFebruary 10, 2018 MANILA, April 14Â â The Philippines has dismissed as âpurely propagandaâ Daeshâs claim that its militants killed scores…
NNews Read More2 minute read Kanye West Stirs Up Controversy With Nude Celebrities in âFamousâbyNews Week MeFebruary 8, 2018 LOS ANGELES, June 27 â Rapper Kanye West set tongues wagging on Monday with his latest music video…
PPolitics Read More1 minute read Lebanonâs Aoun Elected President, Ending 29-Month VacuumbyNews Week MeFebruary 1, 2018 BEIRUT, Oct 31 â The Lebanese parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, ending…
FFeatures Read More7 minute read Dirty Border GamesbyNews Week MeJanuary 23, 2018 In mid-April, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held his first-ever cabinet session atop the mountains of the occupied…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read Casus BellibyNews Week MeDecember 25, 2017 After five years of continuously worsening conflict in Syria, the chances of any decisive outcome are bleak at…
UUncategorized Read More3 minute read Diabetes, A Bitter IllnessbyNews Week MeDecember 13, 2017 The number of people suffering from diabetes in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) may more…
NNews Read More2 minute read Indian Films Portray Stalking of Women as âCool, Romanticâ, say CampaignersbyNews Week MeDecember 5, 2017 CHENNAI, India, Sept 22 â The portrayal of women chased and harassed by spurned lovers in south Indian…
UUncategorized Read More4 minute read New Big Shot on the BlockbyNews Week MeDecember 4, 2017 Three brothers in present day Lebanon embark on a career shift from drug dealing to movie production in…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read Palestine: Hungry for FreedombyNews Week MeNovember 14, 2017 On February 26, Palestinian journalist Mohammad Al Qeeq ended what has widely been reported as one of the…
WWorld Read More1 minute read Australian Woman Kidnapped in Afghanistanâs Capital KabulbyNews Week MeNovember 7, 2017 KABUL, Nov 6 â An Australian working for a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Afghanistan was reported kidnapped in…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read From GCC, With Love: A Letter to Donald TrumpbyNews Week MeNovember 2, 2017 âO Captain! My Captain!â is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman about the death…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Turkey Arrests Novelist for Ties to Kurdish Militants: MediabyNews Week MeOctober 31, 2017 ISTANBUL, Aug 20 â A Turkish court arrested prize-winning novelist Asli Erdogan on Friday over alleged links to…
TTop News Read More8 minute read The Curious Case of Yemenâs Alliances: Saleh Vs HouthisbyNews Week MeOctober 29, 2017 IN THE EARLY morning hours of May 10, 2015, Sanaâa was rocked by five consecutive explosions. As clouds…
TTop News Read More2 minute read Death Toll After Migrant Boat Capsizes off Egypt Reaches 52byNews Week MeOctober 28, 2017 CAIRO, Sept 22 Â â Egyptian rescue workers have found nine more bodies in the Mediterranean Sea a day…
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FFeatures Read More15 minute read Egyptâs Own: Repatriation of Antiquities Proves to be a Mammoth TaskbyNews Week MeOctober 21, 2017 In 1815, an Italian strongman-turned-explorer and archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities, Giovanni Belzoni, traveled to Thebes, upper Egypt to…
NNews Read More3 minute read Choking Game Riskiest When Kids Play AlonebyNews Week MeOctober 18, 2017 By Lisa Rapaport â Kids who play âchoking gamesâ to achieve a euphoric high are more likely to…
DDowntime Read More3 minute read Lebanonâs Angel of MercybyNews Week MeOctober 14, 2017 Stray dogs approach you as you walk by the Zahrani Bridgeâs underpass, in south Lebanon. They sniff the…
WWorld Read More4 minute read Barricades on the Beach: Beirut Residents Fight for Their WaterfrontbyNews Week MeOctober 12, 2017 Dec 5Â â Construction of a new luxury resort on Beirutâs waterfront could enclose the cityâs last free public…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Syrian Army Edges Closer Towards Rebel Stronghold in CapitalbyNews Week MeOctober 10, 2017 AMMAN, Nov 1 â The Syrian army and its allies seized a strategic area in the besieged rebel-held…
OOn the Cover Read More21 minute read Captive SyriabyNews Week MeOctober 10, 2017 No sunlight enters the dingy, oxygen-less cell. Six by ten meters in length, each identical to the other two dozen,…
FFeatures Read More12 minute read EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim KhaddambyNews Week MeOctober 10, 2017 âI cannot imagine how the war in Syria will endâŠI believe that the U.S. administration, perhaps, is no…