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Olympic Torch Begins Its Voyage to France
This Is Beirut 2024-04-27 20:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Olympic flame began its journey on Saturday to France on board the Belem, leaving the Greek port of Piraeus after spending the night at the French embassy in Athens. "The feelings are so exceptional. It's such an emotion for me," Tony Estanguet, Paris Olympics chief organizer, told reporters before the departure of the ship. He hailed the ...
Séjourné Kicks Off Political Meetings With Parliament Speaker
This Is Beirut 2024-04-28 11:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné kicked off his political meetings on Sunday by talking to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, hours after visiting UNIFIL’s headquarters where he called for ending the alarming escalation of violence in south Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel. Accompanied by French Ambassador to Lebanon Hervé Magro ...
Southern Lebanon: More Than 30 Rockets Fired Towards Galilee
This Is Beirut 2024-04-29 11:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
More than 30 rockets were launched on Monday morning from southern Lebanon towards the Galilee panhandle and Upper Galilee. Additionally, the outskirts of the towns of Alma al-Shaab and Naqoura were subjected to intermittent artillery shelling at dawn, coinciding with the firing of flares above the villages of the western and central sectors, ...
Southern Front: Al-Qassam Brigades Claim Attack on Galilee
This Is Beirut 2024-04-29 15:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
More than 30 rockets were launched on Monday morning from southern Lebanon towards the Galilee panhandle and Upper Galilee, and were intercepted by the Israelis. The bombing was claimed by Hamas' military wing, al-Qassam Brigades, operating in southern Lebanon in violation of UN Security Council Resolutions 1701 and 1559. In a statement, the ...
French-American Synergy and Imminent Regional Settlement
2024-04-30 08:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The statement issued at the conclusion of the Elysée meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Lebanese Army (LAF) Commander-in-Chief General Joseph Aoun was capped with the assurance that "President Macron will guarantee follow-through on various points." Consequently, he dispatched Foreign ...
Paul Auster, Giant of American Literature, Dies at 77
Bélinda Ibrahim 2024-05-01 10:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The famous writer Paul Auster, the undisputed master of the American postmodern novel, left us at the age of 77, leaving behind a monumental literary work that marked his era. Born in 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, Paul Auster was attracted to writing from a very young age. After studying at Columbia, he traveled to Europe before fully devoting ...
“Tik Toker” Gang Involved in Child Rape and Drug Abuse
Youssef Diab 2024-05-02 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The security investigation conducted by the Cybercrime Bureau under the supervision of the competent judiciary has not, so far, fully grasped all the threads related to the child luring and rape crime committed by the "TikToker" gang, despite having crucial data and information that have so far led to the arrest of six suspects within the Beirut ...
Gold Price: Is a Trend Reversal Pointing in the Horizon?
Liliane Mokbel 2024-05-02 11:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The fundamental principle of asset diversification remains unshakable despite the speculative fever surrounding a short-term surge in gold prices, with experts predicting a peak of $2,800 per ounce by the end of 2024. Lebanese investors have turned to gold since the onset of the multidimensional crisis in October 2019, even though the yellow ...
Macron Hosts Xi for Talks on Trade and Ukraine
This Is Beirut 2024-05-07 23:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a high altitude lunch at a childhood haunt in the Pyrenees mountains. Macron pressed a message to Beijing not to support Russia's war against Ukraine and to accept fairer trade. The first day of Xi's state visit to France, his first to Europe since 2019, saw ...
Southern Lebanon: Casualties in Majdel Selm After Israeli Drone Strike
This Is Beirut 2024-06-01 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An Israeli drone targeted a motorcycle on Saturday in the town of Majdel Selm in the Marjayoun district, causing one death, according to local newspaper Annahar. This comes after a heated night in the southern villages as Israeli aircraft launched a series of simultaneous raids, which were met by Hezbollah firing dozens of rockets towards ...
Josephine Abi Ghosn Wins the Award for Best Tourism Documentary in the Arab World
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 21:49 - Reading : less than a minute
Josephine Abi Ghosn, the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism's ambassador for religious tourism, received the Arab Union for Tourism Media Award for the best tourism documentary film in the Arab world. The award ceremony for her winning documentary, Visit the Pathways of Jbeil on Holy Thursday, coincided with the Arabian Travel Market 2024 in Dubai, ...
Syrian Refugees: Geagea Announces Lebanese Sit-in in Brussels, May 27
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 23:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has announced plans for a protest sit-in in Brussels on May 27, simultaneously with the international conference on Syria. During a televised interview on Thursday evening, Geagea criticized “the weakness of Lebanese authorities, particularly successive governments,” in managing the issue of the Syrian ...
CCLC Sends Message to Canadian Foreign Minister
2024-05-17 12:07 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Coordinating Committee of Lebanese-Canadians (CCLC) held a meeting on May 13, 2024 at St. Charbel Church Hall in the Greater Toronto Area with representatives of the Liberal Party of Canada, headed by the Honorable Robert Oliphant, Member of Parliament of Toronto riding, Don Valley West and Parliamentary Secretary to the Canadian Foreign ...
Builders, Destroyers, and the Collateral Damage Affair
Nicolas Sbeih 2024-05-23 12:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
In societies, it is customary to find two categories of people or entities: builders and destroyers. Generally, this distinction tends to be nuanced and subject to debate. But not in our case. Here, everything is clear. There is a category that we take pride in when we see them inaugurate a hotel, a factory, or a business — essentially creating ...
Gold Bars: Lebanon Imported 32,000 kg in 2023
Liliane Mokbel 2024-05-26 10:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In 2023, Lebanon imported 31,814 kg of gold bars, valued at $1.9 billion, compared to 16,776 kg in 2022, an increase of 89.6% year-on-year. This marked a record high for Lebanon in terms of the weight and value of gold bar imports over a decade, namely, from 2014 to 2023. According to the research and statistics bureau Information ...
Catharsis Through Cricket for Migrant Workers in Beirut
This Is Beirut 2024-05-26 10:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Migrant workers from various countries find joy and camaraderie through a weekly cricket tournament in Beirut, offering a rare respite from their tough working conditions. In a Beirut car park, migrant workers cheer as their teams face off in a cricket tournament, a moment of respite in crisis-hit Lebanon, where working conditions are often ...
Lebanon in Brussels: Convergence or More Distance?
2024-05-27 13:26 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Brussels’ 8th conference, which starts today, Monday, is devoted to "Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region," under the organization of the European Union, and will unite a Lebanese official position and a new method for addressing this issue. Lebanon’s official speech will be delivered by the head of the Lebanese delegation, ...
Syrian Migrant Camps: Insalubrious Conditions and Resurging Epidemics
Alain E. Andrea 2024-05-27 21:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The precarious sanitary conditions in which Syrian migrants live in Lebanon have contributed over the past decade to the re-emergence and exacerbation of certain epidemics. With no effective solutions in sight, Lebanon is nearing a breaking point. The recent outbreak of several infectious diseases in Syrian migrant camps in Lebanon, including ...
The Paths to the Ultimate Investments
Mario Chartouni 2024-05-28 15:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Finding out ways to preserve and increase one's wealth is a permanent concern worldwide, but it is an acute need in Lebanon due to the ongoing multidimensional crisis that has been afflicting the country for over four years. This issue is a persistent challenge, especially as cash is the number one ruler, and its financial management has proven to ...
Editorial—Irrationality and Reckless Escalation in the Gaza Conflict
Michel Touma 2024-05-29 11:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli-Arab conflict has endured for more than three-quarters of a century. Throughout these 75 years, certain Arab regimes and Palestinian organizations have tried to advance on the path of “liberating Palestine.” Or so they pretended to do, yet their endeavors were limited to theatrics and eloquent speeches, failing to materialize into ...
'Saving Private Ryan' Returns to French Cinemas for D-Day 80th Anniversary
Béatrice Moreau 2024-05-30 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Steven Spielberg's epic war film Saving Private Ryan will be re-released in 300 French cinemas on June 6, 2024, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, offering viewers a powerful and immersive experience of this pivotal moment in history. Steven Spielberg's critically acclaimed World War II epic Saving Private Ryan is set to ...
Zahle: Bicentennial of a “Eucharistic City”
Fady Noun 2024-06-01 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
For the Christians of Lebanon and for Lebanon as a whole, the presidential vacancy is "worse than the plague." It jeopardizes the future of the Lebanese "political entity," stated the Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Zahle, Ibrahim Ibrahim, during the Feast of Corpus Christi, which the city has faithfully commemorated since 1825, nearly two centuries ...
Gallant Reveals Details of the Attack on Hassan Nasrallah
This is Beirut 07/02 10:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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In an exclusive interview with Israeli Channel 12 on Thursday, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant spoke for the first time about the circumstances surrounding the death of Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s former Secretary-General. Nasrallah was killed on September 27, 2024, in an Israeli airstrike targeting the group’s headquarters in ...
New York, Paris, Berlin to Celebrate Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Iconic Art
This is Beirut 14/02 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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New York, Paris, and Berlin are celebrating the anniversaries this year of iconic art installations that saw some of their most prominent landmarks wrapped in fabric by the late artists known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Forty years ago, the couple enfolded the Pont Neuf, one of Paris’s most beloved bridges, in a silky, sandstone-colored ...
What to Expect in 2024
Nicolas Sbeih 2024-01-04 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
To attempt to guess the possible prospects for the year 2024, one must proceed with excessive modesty. Already, the data available from last year is scarce. Even international organizations, which invest millions of dollars annually in surveys and studies, seem engulfed in hazy conjectures. They hesitate to predict anything for the following ...
Aoun Seeks Economic Partnership with Bahrain During Visit
This is Beirut 23/07 13:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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President Joseph Aoun on Wednesday called for sustainable regional partnerships grounded in shared interests and long-term development, rather than temporary aid. His remarks came during a visit to Bahrain’s Economic Development Board on the second day of his official trip to the kingdom, at the invitation of King Hamad bin Isa Al ...
Hezbollah Said to Have Evacuated Positions in South Lebanon
This is Beirut 08/07 13:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Hezbollah reportedly placed all its units on maximum alert on Tuesday across all fronts in anticipation of a potential escalation in Israeli strikes, according to security sources cited by al-Hadath news channel. “Several Hezbollah positions have been evacuated across various areas in southern Lebanon, while some of the group’s senior leaders ...
Marco Rubio Met with Sergei Lavrov on the Sidelines of the Escalation in Ukraine
This is Beirut 10/07 15:28 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Thursday in Malaysia with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, with the war in Ukraine coming up on the sidelines of a diplomatic meeting of Southeast Asia dominated by Washington’s trade war. Mr. Rubio’s visit, his first in Asia since taking office, coincides with Donald Trump’s intensification of ...
The Dual Peril Facing Eastern Christians
Fady Noun 12/07 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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On June 22, a deadly bombing inside Damascus’s Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Elijah during Mass claimed 25 lives and left around 50 injured. In response, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Youhanna X, rightly declared that the victims deserve to be honored as martyrs of the faith, just as those who perished in past tragedies in Lebanon, ...
Bitcoin Rallies Past Record $120,000 as Asian Markets Rise
This is Beirut 14/07 08:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Bitcoin surged past the $120,000 mark for the first time on Monday, setting a new record as optimism grows around potential regulatory breakthroughs for the cryptocurrency industry this week. The digital asset peaked at $122,571.19 before easing slightly, trading 2.4% higher at $121,952.61. Most Asian markets rose Monday as investors digested ...