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Iran water crisis spurs protests -reports

Street protests broke out overnight over severe water shortages in Iran's oil-rich southwest, according to Iranian news outlets and videos posted on social media on Friday, as the country faces its worst drought in 50 years.

Yemenis build siege-defying highway to safety

In Yemen's forbidding mountains, bulldozers paid for by local people are building a new road to serve as a lifeline between the besieged city of Taez and the southern capital Aden.

Pound in free fall, hits 23,000 to dollar 

The free-falling Lebanese pound sank to another record low Friday, trading at 23,250 to the dollar, a day after former Prime Minister Saad Hariri gave up trying to form a new government.

Pound in free fall, hits 23,000 to dollar 

The free-falling Lebanese pound sank to another record low Friday, trading at 23,250 to the dollar, a day after former Prime Minister Saad Hariri gave up trying to form a new government.

Fattouh: Lebanon's first female Olympic weightlifter 

Mahassen Fattouh is busy; she is avoiding COVID-19 like her life depends on it, because in a way it does. If she tests positive, she will jeopardize her chance to compete as Lebanon's first female weightlifter at the Olympics.

Verstappen takes big stride forward with Austrian GP win

Formula One leader Max Verstappen led from start to finish as he won the Austrian Grand Prix for Red Bull in front of an orange army of fans, powering 32 points clear of Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton in the championship Sunday.

French artist Christian Boltanski dies aged 76

Boltanski made headlines in 2010 when he agreed to offer 24-hour video footage of his Paris studio for the rest of his life to an Australian collector, in return for regular payments. The ultimate price paid by the collector, David Walsh, was to be determined by the amount of time Boltanski lived. The deal stipulated that if Boltanksi lived for more than eight years, then Walsh would have paid more than they estimated the work was worth

French artist Christian Boltanski dies aged 76

Boltanski made headlines in 2010 when he agreed to offer 24-hour video footage of his Paris studio for the rest of his life to an Australian collector, in return for regular payments. The ultimate price paid by the collector, David Walsh, was to be determined by the amount of time Boltanski lived. The deal stipulated that if Boltanksi lived for more than eight years, then Walsh would have paid more than they estimated the work was worth

Etel Adnan’s ‘Arab apocalypse’ staged as musical

The poem ruminates upon a specific event – Christian gunmen’s massacre of Palestinians in the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp. More broadly, it uses the allegory of the sun, a force of evil and of good, and the suffering it will cause when it sets the beauty of the Middle East ablaze

Cannes star Renate Reinsve on new-found fame

Until the premiere of ‘The Worst Person in the World,’ the highlight of the 33-year-old Norwegian actress’ time on the big screen amounted to just one minute 10 years ago. Now she is firm favourite to lift the best actress award at Cannes on Saturday

Doc charts Val Kilmer's rise and fall

Chastened by a decade or more of low-budget movies, Kilmer was mounting a comeback in the 2010s with a successful stage show about Mark Twain that he hoped to turn into a film, when he was struck by cancer

The coffee shop that tells tale of Lebanon's downturn 

The events of the last tumultuous 20 months in Lebanon can be told through the birth, growth, and end of one coffee shop in Mar Mikhael whose lifespan became a manifestation of the devastating impact of a collapsing state.

The coffee shop that tells tale of Lebanon's downturn 

The events of the last tumultuous 20 months in Lebanon can be told through the birth, growth, and end of one coffee shop in Mar Mikhael whose lifespan became a manifestation of the devastating impact of a collapsing state.

Billionaire Branson soars to space aboard Virgin Galactic flight

British billionaire Richard Branson on Sunday soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and safely returned in the vehicle's first fully crewed test flight to space, a symbolic milestone for a venture he started 17 years ago.

Greece sees surge of international arrivals in June

Air traffic in Greece picked up strongly in June after the government eased coronavirus-related travel restrictions in May before the start of the key summer tourist season, civil aviation authority data showed on Thursday.

Deadly heatwave slams Canada, US

Millions of people in western Canada and the northwestern United States were under heat alerts Wednesday as the region baked in record-breaking temperatures and police reported scores of deaths likely linked to the scorching conditions.