Israeli officials have announced they will temporarily expand the fishing area for Palestinians off a sector of the blockaded Gaza Strip.

Most European stock markets rose Monday on advancing oil prices, but Madrid sank on resurgent worries over the Catalan independence crisis, dealers said. 

Hillary Clinton said Brexit would put Britain at a "very big disadvantage" and force companies to move resources to continental Europe, in an interview aired Sunday.

The U.S. government on Sunday launched a $10 million project to improve access to wastewater treatment and water for Palestinian farmers in the Jericho area of the occupied West Bank.

Sitting among the vines of Sauvignon Blanc and Tempranillo growing on his spectacular farm in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Michel Emad remembers the not-so-distant time when he opted to cultivate cannabis.

The International Monetary Fund expressed grave concerns Friday over Venezuela's unending political crisis, seeing no end to the economic downturn and suffering of the population.

The anti-corruption association Sherpa called Friday for former French foreign minister Laurent Fabius to be questioned over payments made by cement maker Lafarge to the Islamic State group through a Syrian middleman.

Spain warned Friday it could lower its forecast for next year's economic growth if Catalonia's separatist challenge persists, as concern mounts over the financial fallout of the crisis.

Societe Generale de Banque au Liban (SGBL bank) has announced the inauguration of its new branch in Hazmieh-Mar Takla, which has opened its doors to welcome customers in a “new and comfortable space like the new SGBL branches.”

The opening took place in the presence of the Executive Management of the bank, personalities, customers, traders and residents of the region.

Finance chiefs from around the world have been warned to get their houses in order while the global economy is strong and to be ready for possible shocks in the future.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said that countries must address their mounting debts and deepening inequalities now, before possible setbacks that could come as the era of cheap money from major central banks nears an end.