Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1563561776064597200 Fri, 2019-07-19 21:42 BEIRUT: Retired Lebanese soldiers on Friday came close to clashing with the country’s army when weeks of protests over planned benefit cuts reached boiling point in the capital Beirut. Dressed in military … read more
Fri, 2019-07-19 21:03 TEHRAN: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Friday they had confiscated a British tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz for breaking “international maritime rules,” while a US official told CNN that Iran had seized a second tanker, the British-owned, Liberian-flagged … read more
Author: Fri, 2019-07-19 17:29 JERUSALEM: An Israeli spyware firm thought to have hacked WhatsApp in the past has told clients it can scoop user data from the world’s top social media, the Financial Times reported Friday. The London paper wrote … read more
Fri, 2019-07-19 18:24 EL-ARISH: Egyptian security officials say airstrikes targeting militants are underway in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 20 insurgents. Officials said that Egypt’s air force on Friday hit more than 100 mountainous hideouts of militant groups … read more
Fri, 2019-07-19 17:00 WASHINGTON: The US on Friday imposed financial sanctions on a Hezbollah leader suspected of masterminding the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. The US Treasury sanctions freeze any assets of … read more