Israeli Drone Targets Pickup Truck Near Chaqra
2024-07-23 13:35 - Reading : less than a minute
Lebanon
Mikati’s Empty Promises to Iraq as Debts Pile up
2024-07-22 21:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
During his visit to Iraq, Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and his delegation did not provide concrete assurances about settling Lebanon’s financial obligations to Iraq for the fuel and gas oil conversion deal with Lebanon’s public power provider, Electricité du Liban (EDL). Instead, Mikati merely outlined the current ...
Saydet al-Jabal Gathering Submits Four Concrete Proposals to Opposition
This Is Beirut 2024-07-22 17:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Saydet al-Jabal Gathering said that to initiate change, “opposition MPs must take concrete steps after (almost) two years of presidential vacuum and stalemate.” The Gathering deplored the fact that opposition MPs had so far been content to “describe reality by only voicing objections.” In a press release issued on Monday at the end ...
Opposition MPs Urge Debate on Lebanon’s Involvement in Ongoing War
This Is Beirut 2024-07-22 16:09 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Opposition MPs Georges Okais, Marc Daou, Ashraf Rifi and Salim al-Sayegh submitted a petition on Monday to Speaker Nabih Berri, calling for a debate on the ongoing war and its repercussions on Lebanon. In a press conference held at Parliament, MP Salim al-Sayegh highlighted that since October 8, escalating threats have caused hundreds of Lebanese ...
Handrail of Judges' Club on Rumors of Harassment of Female Judges
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 17:30 - Reading : less than a minute
The “Judges' Club” in Lebanon filed a handrail with the Court of Cassation, demanding that “a serious, transparent and swift investigation be opened into rumors of sexual harassment targeting a number of female judges.” According to information obtained by This is Beirut and Houna Loubnan from informed sources, the “Judges' Club,” ...
Journalists Injured in Southern Lebanon, Carry the Olympic Torch
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 15:19 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
AFP photographer Christina Assi, who was seriously injured reporting from Lebanon in October 2023, carried the Olympic flame on Sunday, accompanied by video journalist Dylan Collins, in tribute “to all the journalists, our colleagues and friends killed this year”, she explained. "It's incredible and heart-warming to see all these people ...
Skaters Conquer Beirut
Allan Branger 2024-07-21 14:43 - Reading : less than a minute
A group of Lebanese skateboarders gather daily in Mohamad Bahaa Chatah Square, Beirut, to practice their passion. Although this has become their favorite spot, it also highlights the lack of skateboarding facilities in the capital.
Rai: Lebanon, a Land of Holiness, Not Wars
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 14:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai asserted, “Lebanon is a land of holiness, unity, and fraternity among its citizens, not a land of wars, conflicts, killings, destruction, and displacement.” The patriarch urged the Lebanese to strive to protect and preserve this land of holiness and prayer. In his weekly homily, delivered on Sunday in Annaya, ...
Envisioning Lebanon Amidst Historical Turmoil
Fady Noun 2024-07-21 10:23 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Is Lebanon's Fate Truly Tragic? Not Necessarily. Certainly battered by history, but condemned? Not if the Lebanese people recognize their role in the current disorder. From the early days of this noble national vocation, initiated by Patriarch Howayek during negotiations with the Third French Republic, he criticized the clientelism and favoritism ...
Patriarch Estephanos Doueihi (1/2)
2024-07-21 10:08 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Estephanos Doueihi, the fifty-seventh Maronite patriarch to hold the seat of Antioch since its founder Saint John Maron, was a distinguished epigraphist, archaeologist, musicologist, and philologist. As a reformer of the Church and guardian of its heritage in the 17th century, he earned the title of Father of History and Preeminent Patriarch, ...
Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Welcomes ICJ Advisory Opinion
This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 17:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has welcomed the advisory opinion issued on July 19 by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding “Israel's colonization policies and practices in the Palestinian territories.” In a statement issued on Saturday, the Ministry recalled that the advisory opinion “confirms the illegality of ...
Dialogue Advocates Decline Opposition Meeting
2024-07-20 16:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Opposition circles were puzzled by Hezbollah and Amal Movement MPs postponing the scheduled Friday meeting with opposition MPs to discuss ideas for completing the presidential election, without providing reasons for the delay. An opposition MP said: "How can Speaker Nabih Berri and Hezbollah call for dialogue on the presidential election while ...