Month: January 2017

Prime Minister, Saad Hariri on Thursday night chaired a meeting of the Ministerial Committee to study the call for tenders for a project to modernize, develop and operate the mecanique inspection centers. The meeting was attended by Ministers, Nouhad Machnouk, Ali Hassan Khalil, Selim Jreissati […]

President Michel Aoun met on Thursday with relatives of the servicemen kidnapped by the Islamic State extremist group, the National News Agency reported. The meeting was held in the presence of General Security chief Maj. Gen.Abbas Ibrahim, NNA added. Aoun assured that he will raise […]

Rita Shami who had been killed on Sunday in an attack in Istanbul was laid to rest on Thursday in Joun. A number of Lebanese state officials joined Shami’s family and friends for a funeral service at the Melkite Catholic Church in Beirut’s Sodeco. “There […]

JUDY WOODRUFF: Now we explore the widening rift between the president-elect and the intelligence community. After we recorded the Brennan interview yesterday, Mr. Trump tweeted: “The ‘intelligence’ briefing on so-called ‘Russian hacking’ was delayed until Friday. Perhaps more time need to build a case. Very […]

President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly selected former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats to be director of national intelligence, according to several media outlets. NPR has not confirmed the pick. In choosing Coats, he is getting a veteran Washington establishment figure — a senator, former lobbyist and […]

Scientists used the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array near Socorro, N.M., to detect fast radio bursts. Patrick Semansky/AP Unexplained, short radio bursts from outer space have puzzled scientists since they were first detected nearly a decade ago. The elusive flashes — known as […]

Older people who followed a Mediterranean diet retained more brain volume over a three-year period than those who did not follow the diet as closely, new research shows. But contrary to earlier studies, eating more fish and less meat was not related to changes in […]

“Lebanese Democratic” Party head, Displaced Minister, Talal Arslan, met on Thursday at his Khaldeh residence with French Ambassador to Lebanon, Emmanuel Bonne, with talks reportedly touching on most recent developments in Lebanon and the broad region. Ambassador Bonne was accompanied by a delegation of the […]

Two attackers, a policeman and a court worker have been killed in a car bomb and gun assault on a courthouse in the Turkish city of Izmir, state media say. Officials blamed Kurdish militants for the attack. A third attacker is reportedly still being sought. […]