Iron ore exports from Australia are set to drop for the first time in almost two decades following bad weather and output setbacks, worsening a global shortage and bolstering prices that have already surged to a five-year high. The world’s top shipper cut its 2019 forecast to 814 million tons from 867 million in March and boosted its estimate for ...

GENEVA, June 28 (MENA) – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said its 100,000th resettlement of a refugee residing in Lebanon in June, as he was assisted in beginning a new life in a third country since fleeing the crisis in neighboring Syria, the organization posted on its website. This marks a significant milestone in IOM Lebanon’s resettlement efforts since ...

An Israeli court denied a request on Friday by the family of a 20-year-old Palestinian man who was shot by police to release his body for a funeral. Mohammed Samir Abid was shot on Thursday, with police saying he had thrown lit firecrackers at them and endangered their lives. Police told the court that they fear riots will break out ...

Israeli-Egyptian cooperation is the key to confronting the threat posed by ISIS Sinai, former director of the US National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Nick Rasmussen told The Jerusalem Post in a recent exclusive interview. Rasmussen, who was the center’s chief from 2014 until December 2017, straddling the Obama and Trump administrations, complimented the reports of quiet-but-effective cooperation between Cairo and Jerusalem. Currently ...

Shortly after Palestinians rejected the economic component of the US Middle East plan unveiled on Saturday, top Lebanese officials said that they refused to be tempted by the plan – despite it allocating billions of dollars to support infrastructure development and business in Lebanon. Lebanese politicians have boycotted the two-day “economic workshop” in Manama, Bahrain, during which the US unveiled the ...

Australia and New Zealand have been urged to do more to fight the drug trade across the Pacific and take responsibility for the fact that the demand for drugs in cities such as Sydney and Auckland was having devastating effects on small Pacific nations. Drug traffickers transport cocaine and methamphetamines through Pacific nations from the US and Latin America to Australia and ...

Australians are increasingly wary about China, and worry about the potential for foreign interference in our democracy, according to new polling from a major foreign policy thinktank. The Lowy Institute poll suggests trust by Australians in China to be a responsible global actor has hit its lowest point since the survey began 15 years ago. Only 32% of the sample say ...

TUNIS – Lebanon has agreed to enter US-brokered talks with Israel over a disputed maritime border. Lebanon has not commented publicly on its participation in such talks; however, Israeli sources indicated that negotiations could begin in July. It is understood that discussions would concern only the maritime border. Acting US Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Satterfield has ...

In the northeastern Lebanese city of Arsal, near the Syrian border, young boys stand in the blistering June heat, swinging sledgehammers to knock down simple structures made of concrete breeze blocks. Some of the children are as young as 8 years old. They’re helping the adults reduce the walls to rubble. The structures they’re demolishing are their own homes, in ...

More than 45 per cent of Australia’s residential aged care facilities are running at a loss. Of these, nearly 20 per cent have greater cash outgoings than incomings, meaning they have to reach into their own pockets or rely on support from their parent organisations and shareholders to remain financially viable. The sector’s strain is even starker in the country’s ...