Protesters blocked main roads in and around Beirut on Tuesday after Lebanon’s Cabinet approved new taxes that raise fuel prices and other products to fund public pay hikes.

Lebanese protesters blocked a major highway in central Beirut and the main coastal road south of the capital on Tuesday morning, after the government approved a sharp increase in gasoline prices and a ...

Cuban authorities postponed the Habano Festival, citing a severe energy crisis linked to fuel shortages. The event generates millions of dollars.

The Lebanese pound lost nearly all its value, leaving millions struggling to afford basic necessities. By turning to the US ...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned a gold exchange that converts Hezbollah's gold reserves into currency to ...

The department “will work to cut these terrorists off from the global financial system,” Scott Bessent, secretary of the U.S.

4. Laotian kip (LAK): The Laotian kip (LAK), introduced in the 1950s, is valued at $0.000046, with 1 USD equivalent to 21,528.38 LAK. Laos, a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, relies on copper, ...

As trust in banks evaporates, citizens buy coins and jewellery while officials argue over whether to unlock the nation’s vast ...

Tiny Lebanon sits on one of the largest gold reserves in the Middle East and its government is weighing whether to use that stockpile to restore a crippled economy while its citizens are looking at go ...

WASHINGTON — The State Department and Treasury Department jointly announced Tuesday that the US is designating chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood based in Egypt ...

Lebanon on Thursday announced that it has completed the first phase of its plan to disarm Hezbollah and other militant groups in the country’s south, but Israel said the progress was “far from ...