Fady Noun 2024-04-04 10:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
A delegation from the Makassed Islamic Association, led by Mohammed Sammak and the association's president Faisal Sinno, discreetly visited the Vatican on March 28, without any media frenzy. This marked the delegation's first visit to the Holy See in its 138-year history. The delegation’s members were warmly received by the Secretary of State, ...
2024-04-04 08:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cyprus has called on the European Union to help it curb the tide of people traveling by boat, mainly Syrian migrants, arriving on its shores from Lebanon. The country insists that any European aid to Lebanon should be contingent upon stopping this influx. Cypriot Interior Minister Constantinos Evano declared that "the situation is worsening” and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-03 22:54 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The four suspected burglars and murderers of Monday's crime in Achrafieh were arrested by the police in the Bekaa region on Wednesday. They are the housekeeper and her accomplices, three young men, all of Syrian nationality. Nazih Turk, a senior resident in a wheelchair, was killed and his wife severely beaten during the burglary of their ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-03 21:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Tajadod parliamentary bloc addressed on Wednesday "the danger posed by extending the terms of municipal and mayoral councils for the third time," clarifying that "the military situation in the South is an unjustifiable pretext that does not prevent the holding of these elections in other Lebanese regions, with a later date set for those ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-03 21:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Kataeb political bureau led by MP Samy Gemayel warned against Lebanon being utilized as a “platform for retaliatory operations and settling regional scores” while commenting on the ongoing war in Gaza. “Such actions could deepen Lebanon's involvement in a conflict vehemently rejected by its people, who see it as contrary to their ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-03 21:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Two associations filed a complaint on Tuesday in France to the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) against caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, accusing him of fraudulently building up assets in the country, a source close to the case told AFP on Wednesday. "We—Najib Mikati and the members of the family—have always acted in strict ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-03 19:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Iran-backed “leaders of the Resistance” marked the annual “Jerusalem Day” through public addresses, in which they vowed to keep up the confrontation against Israel, while criticizing Arab idleness and incapacity to check Israel’s “continuous onslaught” against the Palestinians in Gaza. The announcement of the event noted that ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-03 17:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
On condition of anonymity, a judicial official told AFP on Wednesday that according to the initial results of the Lebanese army's investigation, UN observers and their translator "were injured by (the explosion of) a mine" in Rmeish on Saturday. "An investigation is being conducted jointly by UNIFIL (The United Nations Interim Force in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-03 16:42 - Reading : less than a minute
With the number of displaced Syrians arriving in Cyprus on the rise in recent weeks, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides has described the situation as "extremely worrying." After meeting with the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, Christodoulides said, "I fully understand the challenges facing Lebanon, but exporting ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-03 16:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is to provide Lebanon with humanitarian aid worth over $67 million. This contribution will be allocated to the country's neediest populations, through the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). It will benefit some 500,000 people, including some 200,000 Lebanese, by providing ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-03 16:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai declared that any authority that does not uphold and respect the founding principles of the Lebanese state, including coexistence, equality, public freedoms and respect of the constitution, is illegitimate. Speaking on the occasion of Annunciation Day on Wednesday, Rai denounced "the torpedoing of the Constitution ...
2024-04-03 14:42 - Reading : less than a minute
Following Wednesday's meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Committee, MP Wael Abou Faour reiterated the importance of the implementation of Resolution 1701 in South Lebanon, adding that Lebanon needs work out a truce agreement before looking to anyone else in the region.