The United Nations Information Center in Beirut is organizing a training workshop for media professionals on “Sustainable Development Goals”, sponsored by Information Minister Melhem Riachi, on Thursday 7 and Friday, 8 September 2017, at the SmallVille Hotel, Badaro, Beirut. The workshop aims at informing journalists about these global goals and ... Read More »
President of the Republic Michel Aoun has signed a legal and a series of salaries and salaries and issued them according to the constitutional principles. Read More »
The brightly colored minivan that pulls into Athens’ food market, drawing a group of refugees around it, is not carrying something edible. The contents – hundreds of books – are there to satisfy a different sort of hunger. For tens of thousands of refugees stuck in Greece for the past ... Read More »
Ten U.S. sailors are missing after a collision between the USS John S. McCain and a tanker early Monday east of Singapore, the second accident involving a ship from the Navy’s 7th Fleet in the Pacific in two months. The Navy said five sailors were hurt in the collision between ... Read More »
Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil relaunched a sewage treatment project in Batroun Sunday, the state-run National News Agency reported. “All of us, heads of municipalities and civil society, are keen to preserve our region and keep a watchful eye on this project to make it a new positive sign for all ... Read More »
The body of Ahmad al-Balli, a Lebanese national killed in last week’s terror attack in Burkina Faso, arrived in Beirut Sunday. Representatives of premier Saad Hariri received the body at Rafik Hariri International Airport, the state-run National News Agency reported. Mourning residents of Balli’s native village of Aazqi al-Dinnieh, in ... Read More »
The Lebanese Army had liberated two-thirds of Daesh- (ISIS) occupied territories on the outskirts of Ras Baalbeck and Al-Qaa by Sunday evening, killing 35 militants in the process as they seek to eradicate the last vestiges of militant threats to national security. Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and one critically ... Read More »
Parliament Wednesday repealed Penal Code Article 522, known as the “marry your rapist law,” following years of campaigning by women’s rights advocates. Adopted from the 1810 French Penal Code, the law exonerated a rapist if they married their victim. The abolition was welcomed by concerned organizations, however many said yet ... Read More »
Rising carbon dioxide levels from global warming will drastically reduce the amount of protein in staple crops like rice and wheat, leaving vulnerable populations at risk of growth stunting and early death, experts warned Wednesday. Researchers say they still don’t understand how or why carbon dioxide emissions sap protein and ... Read More »
Lebanon’s private sector made a last-ditch effort Monday to repeal the tax measures designed to finance the salary scale for civil servants, public school teachers and military personnel. Bankers and business leaders, who took part in a broad economic meeting at Baabda’s presidential palace at the invitation of President Michel ... Read More »
Lebanese Ministry of Information
