This Is Beirut 2024-09-09 18:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Beirut's interim investigating judge, Bilal Halaoui, issued an arrest warrant on Monday against the ex-central bank governor, Riad Salameh. He also scheduled a second hearing for Thursday, during which witnesses are expected to be heard. Salameh, who remains in custody, has 24 hours to appeal the judge’s decision before the indictment chamber. ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-09 17:39 - Reading : less than a minute
The Lebanese Ministry of Health received 33 tons of emergency medical supplies from UNICEF on Monday, in the presence of Lebanon's Caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad and UNICEF's representative in Lebanon, Edward Beigbeder. This aid is intended to support the residents of southern Lebanon during wartime. [gallery link="none" size="large" ...
2024-09-09 13:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A delegation of MPs from the Strong Republic bloc submitted a letter on Monday morning to caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati requesting the removal of obstacles hindering the judicial investigator's work and the completion of the Beirut port blast investigation. After the meeting, MP Ghassan Hasbani spoke on behalf of the delegation, noting ...
2024-09-09 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The truce negotiations have proven their limitations more and more and have yielded no tangible results. The Iranians are still blocking the venues of communication throughout the Middle East. The Arab countries are still hobbled and unable to move on any issues compromising the future of regional peace. The Israelis are prisoners to their ...
Michel Touma 2024-09-09 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
“There's many a slip between the cup and the lip” … Without indulging into misplaced cynicism, this old French proverb captures perfectly the political-military quagmire in which Hezbollah and its regional “sponsor” have long been entrenched. Both players, highly active on the Middle Eastern stage—and at times far beyond—consistently ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-08 15:54 - Reading : less than a minute
The Committee of Contractual Teachers in the Public Sector has called for a Cabinet session dedicated to public education, specifically focused on the following points: increasing teachers' salaries to be equivalent to those of professors at the Lebanese University, raising the wages of contract teachers, and funding school budgets at the national ...
2024-09-08 14:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affaires Abdallah Bou Habib made a statement suggesting that Israel might not stop its military operations in southern Lebanon, even if a ceasefire is reached in Gaza. In an interview with Al Jazeera English, the foreign minister based his remarks on statements from Israeli officials and messages conveyed to Lebanon ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-08 14:26 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Retired Military Personnel announced in a statement on Sunday that they will prevent the Council of Ministers from convening and from holding any governmental meetings unless the top item on its agenda is the reform of their salaries to ensure equality, in accordance with the law, for all categories of public sector employees and retirees. A ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-08 11:26 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Maronite Patriarch, Bechara Rai, addressed the “endless” presidential vacuum. In his Sunday sermon in Dimane, he highlighted that “it leaves negative impacts, including the disruption of institutions, the disintegration of administrations, and the violation of laws, culminating in targeting Christian Maronite positions in the state in ...
2024-09-08 08:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron is reportedly planning to hold a meeting dedicated to Lebanon, on the margins of the Francophone summit hosted by France on October 4 and 5. According to French diplomatic sources quoted by Chahir Idriss for Houna Loubnan, the aim of this extraordinary meeting would be to urge the countries taking part in the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-08 08:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron is reportedly planning to hold a meeting dedicated to Lebanon, on the margins of the Francophone summit hosted by France on October 4 and 5. According to French diplomatic sources quoted by Chahir Idriss for Houna Loubnan, the aim of this extraordinary meeting would be to urge the countries taking part in the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-07 20:45 - Reading : less than a minute
The Higher Islamic Supreme Council reiterated on Saturday its “deep concern” about the ongoing presidential deadlock severely impacting Lebanon. In a statement released after its meeting, chaired by the Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian, the Sunni body stressed that electing a president of the Republic is "vital for ending ...