Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee Monday completed the first of two sessions to finalize Lebanon’s 2017 state budget. “We’ve reached Article 50 [of the draft budget], and discussions will continue on this issue and other related topics,” Change and Reform bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan told the press following the meeting. ... Read More »
Prime Minister Saad Hariri Tuesday condemned Monday night’s suspected suicide attack in Manchester, which left at least 22 dead, including children, and scores wounded. The Premier addressed the tragedy via Twitter, expressing “Total solidarity with the people of Britain in the face of the cowardly terrorist attack in Manchester.” The ... Read More »
The concluding remarks from last week’s session of the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child evaluation of Lebanon was released Monday indicating some improvements as well as remaining challenges. Social Affairs Minister Pierre Abou Assi introduced the report and reaffirmed Lebanon’s commitment to creating a “safe environment.” The ... Read More »
In a first step toward an environmentally friendly military, the Defense Ministry, the Lebanese Army and the European Union launched a study of Monday as an initial step toward cutting energy use. The study, titled “Sustainable Energy Strategy of the Lebanese Armed Forces,” collected data on energy use across a ... Read More »
Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani toured Sidon Monday, discussing the recent crisis affecting hospitals across the country. Hasbani met with several religious and political figures during his visit. When asked about government aid to the Sidon Public Hospital and the Turki Hospital, Hasbani said: “Since taking over ... Read More »
President Michel Aoun applauded the pre-emptive security operations conducted by the Army and security forces to fend off the threats of “terrorists” along Lebanon’s northeastern border. Aoun made his remarks in a meeting with a delegation from the southern town of Aishieh in Jezzine. “Stable security in all Lebanese areas ... Read More »
Nazik Armenakyan has spent the last decade in a desperate race against death: She has been scouring Armenia searching for survivors of the Armenian genocide. She is determined to photograph them and provide an enduring document of their experiences a century ago. Although she found 45 survivors, she has sometimes ... Read More »
When the paper published an opinion piece about the new hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners, “a rash of readers” objected, according to Liz Spayd, its public editor – who insulted with her word choice even as she backed their case. The readers were angered, she suggested, by a “distorted characterization” ... Read More »
It may not be too late for a little course correction on how we’re all consuming and evaluating — or not — information in a digital environment. But squeezing some ideological diversity into readers’ media diets is far from a silver bullet to the problem of misinformation and partisan echo ... Read More »
The former vice president of Zimbabwe, Joice Mujuru, says she is open to forming an opposition coalition to unseat longtime President Robert Mugabe in the country’s 2018 elections—including with the Harare pastor who led a mass social media protest against Mugabe in 2016. In an interview with Newsweek, Mujuru—who was ... Read More »
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