This Is Beirut 2024-01-19 18:41 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Social Affairs, Hector Hajjar, said that "stopping the aid given to the poorest families in Lebanon as part of the national support program constitutes a threat to the social security of citizens." Noting that "the situation in Lebanon has worsened and the number of people living below the poverty line has increased," Hajjar ...
2024-01-19 18:19 - Reading : less than a minute
A major exhibition revisiting the long history of the Committee for the Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Lebanon opened on Thursday at Beit Beirut, located on a former demarcation line in the emblematic Sodeco district. Forty years of struggle to shed light on the fate of more than 17,000 victims unfold in a timeline featuring 150 ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-19 17:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Amnesty International denounced on Friday the decision taken by Lebanon’s Cassation Court to suspend the arrest warrant against former Minister of Public Works, Youssef Fenianos, who was charged in September 2021 with homicide and criminal negligence by the lead investigator of the Beirut Blast. “The suspension of the arrest warrant against ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-19 15:18 - Reading : less than a minute
The Internal Security Forces Inspection unit successfully thwarted, on Thursday night, an attempt to smuggle a quantity of cannabis estimated at 20 kilograms at Beirut's International Airport. Two Lebanese women were caught trying to smuggle the drugs, disguised as food items, to Istanbul.
This Is Beirut 2024-01-19 12:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In a day of holiness and prayer, Lebanon's bells echoed joyfully from Lebanon to the Vatican in honor of Saint Charbel on Friday morning. Worshipers gathered in prayer around the Saint Charbel Annaya church and places of worship across Lebanon, as Church bells rang for 5 minutes at 10:30 Beirut time, simultaneously with the installation of a ...
Fady Noun 2024-01-19 08:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Starting Friday morning, a mosaic featuring Saint Charbel will adorn one of the walls surrounding the tomb of Saint Paul VI in the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome. The moment promises to be both poignant and solemn. Following the installment of the statue of Saint Maron in one of its exterior niches in 2011, the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-18 23:04 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Private School Teachers' Union has announced an open strike starting Tuesday, January 23. This decision comes after the Union of Private Educational Institutions in Lebanon failed to fulfill an agreement reached 48 hours earlier during a meeting at the Ministry of Education with caretaker Minister Abbas Halabi. During this meeting, it was ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-18 22:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai sponsored on Thursday the launch of the "Gathering for the State of Greater Lebanon" at Bkerke, an initiative by the Conference for Civil Society Dialogue (CSID) association. The initiative calls for a return to the neglected principles of Greater Lebanon from 1943, with a focus on positive neutrality advocated ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-18 22:17 - Reading : less than a minute
A three-year-old girl (M.Z.) was admitted to the emergency room of the government hospital at al-Qobbeh in Tripoli on Thursday, "following abuse by her stepmother," according to security sources. The young girl exhibited numerous burn and bruise marks. According to the same source, "The worst kinds of abuse and violence were inflicted on the ...
Samar Kadi 2024-01-18 21:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The issue of the deadlocked presidential election, which has been placed on the back burner for a while, will be thrust back to the forefront in the coming weeks in light of fast-developing regional events impacting Lebanon, which has been plagued by multiple economic and political crises. According to a Western diplomatic source, the “changes ...
2024-01-18 15:47 - Reading : less than a minute
Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Lebanon, Walid Al-Bukhari, received his French counterpart, Hervé Magro, at his residence in Yarzeh on Thursday for talks on efforts being deployed by their respective countries to speed up the presidential election process and help Lebanon overcome its multiple crises amid regional developments. Discussions ...
2024-01-18 15:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanese Forces (LF) MP Fadi Karam said on Thursday that Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s stance on linking developments on the southern front with Israel to the war in Gaza will be strongly objected to, as it is tantamount to handing over the official Lebanese decision to Hezbollah. In comments made to the local radio station Voice of ...