Joanne Naoum 04/04 20:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) led by Gebran Bassil is reportedly seeking to improve relations with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, but the question of a rapprochement between the two adversaries was utterly denied by the Speaker’s circle. Nonetheless, a new dynamic in relations between the FPM and Berri’s Amal Movement was ushered in ...
04/04 20:24 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The parliamentary Finance and Budget Committee, headed by MP Ibrahim Kanaan, settled today the issue of cadet Civil Defense volunteers, who are awaiting a law amendment enabling them to benefit from health care and salary supplements. After the meeting, Kanaan pointed out that Civil Defense workers haven’t received their salaries in over eight ...
04/04 20:20 - Reading : less than a minute
Beirut International Airport: traffic down 7% in first quarter of 2024. Traffic at Beirut International Airport (BIA) recorded a 7% drop in the first quarter of the current year, in comparison with the same period in 2023, and a 12% drop in flights to and from Lebanon. According to figures released by BIA, the airport welcomed 1,272,625 ...
04/04 19:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said he was surprised by reports that appeared in the Cypriot press on Thursday about the island state’s strained relations with Lebanon over illegal migrants, mainly Syrian nationals, departing from Lebanese shores. In his introductory address to the Council of Ministers meeting at the Serail, Mikati said ...
04/04 19:04 - Reading : less than a minute
Two people were killed and seven others injured in a huge fire that broke out in rose flower warehouses owned by Nazih Harb in the town of al-Marj, in West Bekaa. While the Civil Defense worked to extinguish the fire and transport the wounded to hospitals, al-Marj mayor Munawwar al-Jarrah said that the fire in the Beit al-Ward warehouses had ...
Fady Noun 04/04 10:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
A delegation from the Makassed Islamic Association, led by Mohammed Sammak and the association's president Faisal Sinno, discreetly visited the Vatican on March 28, without any media frenzy. This marked the delegation's first visit to the Holy See in its 138-year history. The delegation’s members were warmly received by the Secretary of State, ...
04/04 08:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cyprus has called on the European Union to help it curb the tide of people traveling by boat, mainly Syrian migrants, arriving on its shores from Lebanon. The country insists that any European aid to Lebanon should be contingent upon stopping this influx. Cypriot Interior Minister Constantinos Evano declared that "the situation is worsening” and ...
This Is Beirut 03/04 22:54 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The four suspected burglars and murderers of Monday's crime in Achrafieh were arrested by the police in the Bekaa region on Wednesday. They are the housekeeper and her accomplices, three young men, all of Syrian nationality. Nazih Turk, a senior resident in a wheelchair, was killed and his wife severely beaten during the burglary of their ...
This Is Beirut 03/04 21:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Tajadod parliamentary bloc addressed on Wednesday "the danger posed by extending the terms of municipal and mayoral councils for the third time," clarifying that "the military situation in the South is an unjustifiable pretext that does not prevent the holding of these elections in other Lebanese regions, with a later date set for those ...
This Is Beirut 03/04 21:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Kataeb political bureau led by MP Samy Gemayel warned against Lebanon being utilized as a “platform for retaliatory operations and settling regional scores” while commenting on the ongoing war in Gaza. “Such actions could deepen Lebanon's involvement in a conflict vehemently rejected by its people, who see it as contrary to their ...
This Is Beirut 03/04 21:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Two associations filed a complaint on Tuesday in France to the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) against caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, accusing him of fraudulently building up assets in the country, a source close to the case told AFP on Wednesday. "We—Najib Mikati and the members of the family—have always acted in strict ...
This Is Beirut 03/04 19:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Iran-backed “leaders of the Resistance” marked the annual “Jerusalem Day” through public addresses, in which they vowed to keep up the confrontation against Israel, while criticizing Arab idleness and incapacity to check Israel’s “continuous onslaught” against the Palestinians in Gaza. The announcement of the event noted that ...