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BEIRUT, Lebanon – In its first session since a devastating Beirut shake-up last week, the Lebanese parliament approved a state of emergency that extends expanding powers to the city’s army, a situation that lawmakers have said threatens freedoms can form. A two-week emergency was first declared by the cabinet in …

Trump said he expects more countries to “follow the lead of the United Arab Emirates.” August 13, 2020, 5:30 p.m. 5 min reading Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail this article President Donald Trump said Thursday in a surprise announcement that Israel and the United Arab Emirates had agreed to normalize …

As Taylor Swift’s Folklore spends its second consecutive week at the Billboard 200, Swifties around the world continue to drop their proverbial teeth in the 16 indie-lane tracks of the surprise album. To turn whimsical, incidental and astonishingly poetic, FolkloreThe tracklist also gives musically inclined Swifties a lot of new …

After all the warnings against breathing drops of coronavirus, could the answer to fighting the pandemic be an inhaler? Scientists at the University of California San Francisco have developed an aerosol formulation made of anti-antibody nanobodies that can prevent the virus from infecting cells. Even if administered via an inhaler …

The Justice Department on Thursday announced the “dismantling of three cyber-enabled terrorist financing campaigns”, targeting efforts by the al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of Hamas – Al Qaeda and ISIS. U.S. officials said these terrorist groups used cryptocurrency and social media to raise money from around the world for …