NNA – Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rahi hoped that the “divine light guides political parties to elect a president and puts an end to corruption.” The Maronite prelate spoke Saturday from Diman, chairing the third annual Mass of the “Garden of the Patriarchs” in the presence […]
ROME—A vial of blood, a splinter of wood from a confessional and two dubious medical miracles are the ingredients making Mother Teresa a saint not just figuratively but literally, and this Sunday in Rome she will be canonized with great fanfare. More than 100,000 tickets […]
Pope Francis on Saturday denounced what he called the modern-day sin of indifference to hunger, exploitation and other suffering, while commending the example of Mother Teresa on the eve of a sainthood ceremony for the nun who cared for India’s destitute. Choosing “to not see […]
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake rattled Oklahoma on Saturday, damaging buildings and tying for the strongest temblor ever recorded in the state, which has experienced a rash of earthquake activity in the past decade that U.S. seismologists have tied to the underground disposal of wastewater from oil […]
Down a sandy alleyway in a secluded courtyard on a back street in Gaza City, a group of Palestinian children starts singing. They stand in front of a door that’s been locked to them since early August. The sign out front says “Children’s Clinic” in […]
Ankara (AFP) – Turkey on Saturday sent more tanks into the northern Syrian village of al-Rai to fight Islamic State extremists, opening a new front after its intervention last month against the group, state media reported. The tanks crossed into the village from the Turkish […]
Sirte (Libya) (AFP) – Forces loyal to Libya’s unity government launched a new attack Saturday on diehards of the Islamic State jihadist group pinned down in the coastal city of Sirte. Backed by weeks of US air strikes, fighters loyal to the Government of National […]
Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil said on Saturday that the FPM wants to “destroy” what he called the “corrupt structure” that ruled Lebanon between 1990 and 2005. Addressing Prime Minister Tammam Salam, Bassil noted that “the son of late PM Saeb Salam must pay […]
NNA – Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea categorically stressed that the primary practical step to exit out of the current crisis lies in the election of the president of the republic. “The foremost needed step to extricate out of the current crisis does neither […]
NNA – A drug smuggling operation from India to Lebanon was foiled in Rafic Hariri International Airport and big amounts of “Tramadol” pills were confiscated, a communiqué issued by Interior Security Forces (ISF) – General Directorate – Public Relations department said on Saturday. The communiqué […]
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