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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Melbourne’s usually vibrant downtown streets were draining of signs of life on Wednesday on the eve…

Occupancy rates at Egypt’s Red Sea Governorate hotels and tourist resorts reached 50 percent of total capacity, the maximum set…

BEIRUT (AP) — Dozens of Lebanese protesters tried to storm the Ministry of Energy on Tuesday, angered by prolonged power…

Egyptian Minister of Education Tarek Shawky on Monday certified this year’s Thanaweya Amma (secondary school exit exam) scores, and offered…

BASRA, Iraq (AP) — In Iraq’s oil-rich south, the scorching summer months pose painful new choices in the age of…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Turkey’s consumer price inflation fell to a lower-than-expected 11.76 percent year-on-year in July, the Turkish Statistical Institute…

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) — On the streets of Tripoli, Lebanon’s second biggest city and one of its poorest, there are…

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced Friday that the government will postpone highly anticipated legislative elections…

PARIS (AP) — The economy of the 19-country eurozone shrank by a devastating 12.1 percent during the second quarter from…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Small groups of pilgrims performed one of the final rites of the Islamic hajj…