This Is Beirut 2023-12-31 14:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
On Saturday, the United Nations officially announced the closure of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. The closure had been scheduled for March 1, 2023, but UN Secretary-General António Guterres decided in January to extend the mandate of the STL, created in 2007, until the end of December "in order to complete the residual non-judicial functions ...
2023-12-31 12:08 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
If ISIS tried to carry out ethnic cleansing based on takfirism, Hezbollah has devised the notion of "takhuinism" (accusation of treason) to subjugate Lebanon in an atmosphere of terror. Every Christian is potentially labeled as a Zionist agent. The military tribunal has become Hezbollah's instrument of oppression, where any accused individual is ...
Alissar Boulos 2023-12-31 09:42 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
On a political level, 2023 has been overall a year of stagnation for Lebanon. It was marked by significant setbacks, such as the failure to elect a President of the Republic and establish State sovereignty. This is Beirut compiled a summary of the key political events that have shaped Lebanon's landscape throughout 2023. The Investigation into ...
gdeveloper 2023-12-30 21:31 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
For decades, Tele Liban has been a mainstay of Lebanese living rooms. Now the country is seeking UNESCO recognition for the archives of its pioneering Arab broadcaster. Caretaker Minister of Information, Ziad Makary, told AFP that Beirut would apply to have the full archives of Tele Liban added to the UN cultural body's Memory of the World ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-30 19:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Unknown assailants set fire to a Christmas tree in the square in front of the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George in al-Mina, Tripoli, on Friday night. This incident comes less than a week after a Christmas tree in front of the Greek Orthodox Church of St. George in Zahriyeh suffered the same fate last Sunday, on Christmas Eve. This tree, like ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-30 15:44 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced on Saturday that they apprehended H.A., a Sudanese individual born in 1993, on December 22 in Furn el-Chebbak. He is suspected to be the perpetrator of the heinous crime against L.N., a young Ethiopian woman born in 1989, whose lifeless body was discovered on December 16 in a dumpster in Souk ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-30 11:59 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two days after Thursday's cable car incident, and in response to reports published on the media and social networks that the operating license granted to the Lebanese Cable Car and Tourist Expansion Company SAL had expired at the end of 2022, the company in question asserted on Saturday that the license “will expire in April 2026.” As for ...
2023-12-30 09:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Many Lebanese drivers regard NYE as the most dangerous night on the road. YASA Director Ziad Akl divulges road safety measures to follow, and how safety is everyone's responsibility.
2023-12-29 21:27 - Reading : less than a minute
On Friday, the NGO Barbara Nassar organized a sit-in in Riad al-Solh to denounce the government's draft law. The aim is to abolish subsidies on cancer treatment drugs. If passed, the law could harm patients' health.
Alissar Boulos 2023-12-29 18:59 - Reading : less than a minute
Good evening and welcome to The Intelligent Recap. It is Friday, December 29 and the 84th day of the war in Gaza. It is also the last episode for 2023. In tonight’s news, the main focus, locally, remains the situation at the Lebanese southern border. We will also take a look at other Lebanese news including the strike in private ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-29 17:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea said Friday that "the presidency is not a consolation prize, neither internally nor under any strategic equation. All we want is for the next head of state to be a president in the true sense of the word.” "We will not accept the election of a president who will allow the current situation to persist,” ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-29 13:24 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's wife, Jamileh-Sadat Alamolhoda, arrived at Rafic Hariri airport on Friday morning, where she was welcomed by... the caretaker Minister of Culture(!), Mohammed Wissam Mortada, Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani, and delegations from Hezbollah’s women, the Amal movement and Islamic Jihad, as reported ...