From Foreign Waters

  Many have detected of them however few have really seen them. Despite abundant fanfare upon their donation in May, several of the French buses supposedly serving the folks of Beirut since Monday stay elusive. Bus drivers, passengers, and restaurant house owners at Beirut’s main intersections of Dawra, Cola,and Moucharafieh say they're however to identify the vehicles. "I apprehend this bus, it's a part of the new batch of state buses, I even have seen them on Facebook", aforementioned Ali whereas reckoning on his phone at the image of a inexperienced jade and white RATP bus recognizable to associate degree yone who has ever set foot in Paris. In May, France given fifty of them to Asian country as a part of an agreement to boost the country' crumbling transport network, that depends mostly on tatterdemalion government buses and personal micro-buses.

  After a surprising run of wins the  North African team , supported by Arabs all over the world in their bid to win the trophy, achieved more than just a historic spot among the final four.  “Everyone was supporting Morocco tonight. Everyone except the French maybe,” said Soukaima Laouhidi, 29, a Moroccan who lives in Germany on business in Dubai. “The atmosphere here is incredible, you can feel it in the air. Everyone believed in this team so much.”

European powers came together in pursuit of resolving the US-Iran conflict and saving what is left of the nuclear deal with Iran. On Friday, the leaders of EU held a meeting in Brussels to seek ways to de-escalate frequent eruption of tensions between United States and Iran. EU leaders said that they were looking for a more permanent solution for the confrontation between the two, knowing that any miscalculation on either side could leave the bloc facing a major crisis. The European nations including France, Britain and Germany have unanimously rejected US president Donald Trump’s call to quit the nuclear treaty with Iran.  The treaty, called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPCOA), signed in 2015 started losing its impact after Trump withdrew US from the agreement in May 2018.  US pulled out on the grounds that it was biased and a foolish agreement. As the consequence, Washington imposed stricter economic sanctions on Tehran, crippling its economy.  Since 2018,...