This Is Beirut 2024-05-28 19:55 - Reading : less than a minute
The Constitutional Council (CC) rejected, on Tuesday, the three appeals lodged against the law extending the terms of municipal councils and mokhtars. The law was adopted by Parliament on April 25. The Constitutional Council invoked the exceptional circumstances in Lebanon, alluding to the war in South Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel. The ...
Johnny Kortbawi 2024-05-28 17:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
It is a surprise to none that nothing in Lebanon is done within the deadlines stipulated by the Constitution, mainly due to the biggest problem that the Lebanese regime faces: unilateral decisions and hegemony over the State. In 2022, the main slogan of the elections was that the new Parliament will honor its most important commitment, electing a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-28 17:24 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Cabinet has decided to form a ministerial committee to negotiate with the Syrian government to find a solution to the issue of Syrian migrants in Lebanon. At the close of Tuesday's Cabinet meeting at the Grand Serail, caretaker Information Minister Abbas Halabi announced that Cabinet Vice-President Saade Chami would chair the ...
2024-05-28 17:09 - Reading : less than a minute
Ahead of Tuesday's Cabinet session, contractual teachers at the Lebanese University are still getting paid $2 an hour, some barely earning $200 a year.
This Is Beirut 2024-05-28 16:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The plan submitted in Monday’s Brussels Conference by the Lebanese government, regarding the threat of Syrian displacement on Lebanon, was published Tuesday, sounding the alarm that “Syrian migrants now exceed half of the Lebanese resident population”. According to the plan, “the General Directorate of General Security has reported that ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-28 14:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A cabinet session on Tuesday addressed several recent events including Lebanon’s participation in the Arab Summit held in Bahrain, the Brussels conference, and the ongoing tensions in the south of the country. Regarding the Arab Summit, which was held on May 16, Prime Minister Najib Mikati explained that it expressed everyone’s interest in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-28 13:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Since Monday, a video has been circulating on social networks, calling for donations to finance the purchase of drones, via the Islamic Resistance Support Organization, a branch of the Hezbollah network. ساهم بمشروع ثمن مسيرة.. هيئة دعم المقاومة الإسلامية الإدارة العامة : 01550450_03969357 ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-28 10:49 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah continued in the South on Tuesday. The latest development on the ground includes artillery shelling targeting farmers in the Marjayoun plain and gunshots on Jabal al-Labbouneh and Jabal al-Alam in the morning. During the night, the Israeli army targeted with heavy artillery shells the outskirts of the towns ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 21:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdallah Bou Habib warned against "an explosion of the situation in Lebanon (due to the massive presence of Syrians in the country) which, if it occurs, will have repercussions on neighboring countries and Europe." He stressed that "maintaining the status quo on this issue poses an existential threat to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 19:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
For the fifth consecutive time, the Attorney General at the Court of Appeal, Ghada Aoun, who has been struck off the judiciary, refused to appear before the Higher Disciplinary Council on Monday. It was, in fact, she who had brought the appeal to this instance to invalidate the decision of the Judicial Disciplinary Council to dismiss her from her ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 16:52 - Reading : less than a minute
On Monday, MPs from the Lebanese Forces (LF) held a protest in Brussels ahead of a conference on the issue of Syrian migrants in Lebanon. They voiced their opposition, in line with a Lebanese political consensus, to efforts aimed at restricting solutions that would pave the way for the return of migrants to regions in Syria deemed safe.
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 15:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati met with UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Aroldo Lázaro on Monday to discuss the security situation in southern Lebanon. The discussion also tackled the preparations for the periodic report to the UN Security Council on the implementation of Resolution 1701, as well as the coordination between ...