Author: Wed, 2021-12-08 23:27 BEIRUT: Lebanese money changers refusing to accept older $100 banknotes, known as “white notes,” is causing confusion, particularly after some people were charged an extra $5 fee for exchanging $100 white bills. Dozens of customers flocked to … read more
Author: ARAB NEWS ID: 1638990670581039100 Wed, 2021-12-08 23:18 KUWAIT: Kuwait has detected its first case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, state news agency KUNA reported on Wednesday. The variant was detected in a European traveler who arrived to … read more
Wed, 2021-12-08 01:17 BEIRUT: On Tuesday, at the request of President Emmanuel Macron, French Ambassador to Lebanon Anne Griot briefed Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Macron’s Gulf tour, especially his visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which “expressed its … read more
Wed, 2021-12-08 00:45 THE HAGUE: A Dutch appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s decision to throw out a civil case against Israel’s defense minister and another former senior military officer over their roles in a deadly 2014 airstrike. The … read more
Wed, 2021-12-08 00:27 GENEVA: Two Swiss half-sisters whose mother took them out of the country with her when she joined the Daesh militant group in the Middle East in 2016 have been repatriated from a desert camp in northeastern Syria, the … read more