
Separatists fighting against Kiev announced on Tuesday the creation of a new “state” that they said would take the place of Ukraine and have its capital in their territory. The proposed country would be founded after a referendum and called Malorossiya, a tsarist-era name meaning “Little Russia” that once described ...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Tuesday that Lebanon was no longer capable of handling the growing burden of Syrian refugees on Lebanese territories. The President’s words came before the Mayor of Haret Hreik, Ziad Waked, who visited him in the company of the Municipal Council and mukhtars. “If we ...