This Is Beirut 2024-01-31 23:06 - Reading : less than a minute
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), part of the US Treasury, announced on Tuesday that it had imposed sanctions against three entities and one individual in Lebanon and Turkey, accused of "providing significant financial support" to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Two new Lebanese companies ...
2024-01-31 23:05 - Reading : less than a minute
British Foreign Minister David Cameron is expected in Beirut on Thursday, the second leg of a regional tour that took him to Oman, where he called for an immediate humanitarian pause in Gaza. https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/world/222581 Cameron will be received at 11 a.m. by the caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, and then by the Speaker of the ...
2024-01-31 21:22 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Maronite League stigmatized, "in the strongest and clearest terms, the criminal slander and denigration campaign" waged against the Maronite Patriarch, Bechara Rai, "by a suspicious group which has become accustomed to giving lessons in terms of patriotism." The head of the Maronite Church was recently accused by Hezbollah's electronic army ...
2024-01-31 20:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Legal assistants will observe work stoppage on Thursday, February 1 and Friday, February 2, with plans to return to work starting Monday, as reported to This Is Beirut. Though they will go back to their workplaces, the assistants will not perform their duties. This decision was made after a meeting held on Wednesday. Legal assistants are ...
2024-01-31 19:55 - Reading : less than a minute
The Association of Petroleum Importing Companies declared its refusal of the new 2024 budget, which imposes a 10% tax on its total turnover. This paints a worrying picture for Lebanese people who are anxious about another fuel crisis.
2024-01-31 19:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah intensified late on Wednesday. One man was killed in the Israeli bombardment of the town of Beit Lif, and a team of first-aid workers from the Al Risala el-Islamiya (Hezbollah) scouts miraculously escaped when their ambulance was targeted in Blida. In the late afternoon, the Israeli army ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-31 18:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Since the start of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas on October 7, the Lebanese-Israeli-UN tripartite committee temporarily suspended its regular monthly meetings at the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Ras al-Naqoura, southern Lebanon. According to a well-informed source who spoke to This Is Beirut ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-31 18:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Head of the Lebanese Forces (LF) Samir Geagea questioned on Wednesday the remarks attributed to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who is said to have called on political parties to hold "a dialogue table" as a prerequisite to any parliamentary session to elect a president. "If this information circulating in the press on Wednesday proves to be ...
2024-01-31 17:22 - Reading : less than a minute
Lack of money, food, electricity... nearly 4 months after the start of Israeli bombings in southern Lebanon, many displaced individuals struggle to meet their basic needs. In Tyre, the municipality and NGOs try to address a critical situation, worsened by the arrival of winter and a prolonged conflict.
This Is Beirut 2024-01-31 13:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
In the context of combating illegal infiltration and smuggling across land borders, units of the army thwarted attempts by some 900 Syrians to infiltrate the Lebanese-Syrian border during January this year. The General Directorate of General Security announced on Wednesday that a convoy of buses would soon be leaving for Damascus, as part of the ...
2024-01-31 13:20 - Reading : less than a minute
The Constitutional Council has failed to reach a decision regarding the appeal lodged by the Free Patriotic Movement concerning the postponement of the retirement of the heads of the State's military and security apparatus, namely Commander-in-Chief of the Army Joseph Aoun and Director of the Internal Security Forces Imad Othman. As a result, the ...
Renée Davis 2024-01-31 09:35 - Reading : less than a minute
Several NGOs such as Wing Woman, and other ethically responsible businesses like Shemsi, are introducing new alternatives in Lebanon to combat period poverty. These financially and environmentally sustainable alternatives replace traditional disposable menstrual products.