Month: March 2017

President of the Association of Banks in Lebanon, Francois Bassil denied the accusations launched by Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, who said that the banks offered an amount of $1 billion in order to cancel the item pertaining to imposing taxes on the banks.   […]

The International Day of Happiness is celebrated throughout the world on the 20th of March.   According to recent studies, Norway ranked first as the world’s happiest country. Happy countries are the ones that have a healthy balance of prosperity, as conventionally measured and social […]

Prime Minister Saad Hariri held talks Monday in Ain el-Tineh with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. State-run National News Agency said talks tackled “the electoral juncture, the electoral law and the political and social situations including the new wage scale.” According to al-Jadeed television, Berri and […]

Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal Movement stressed during their 41st bilateral dialogue session on Monday the need to reach an electoral law as soon as possible. “The conferees continued discussions over the preparations aimed at reaching an electoral law and underlined the need to approve it with […]

Lebanese Forces leader, Samir Geagea, maintained on Monday that his party had called the state to determine the utilities where public funds waste was taking place before heading to impose new taxes to finance the long-awaited salary scale. “Everybody recalls that two months ago when […]

Lebs let loose in Punchbowl ‘prison’ Michael Mohammed Ahmad, The Australian, 12:00AM March 11, 2017 Earlier this week, the historically troubled Punchbowl Boys High School in western Sydney once again made headlines when its principal and deputy were sacked after the school fobbed off an […]

Die Moschee des Vereins “Deutschsprachiger Islamkreis Hildesheim” galt schon lange als Treffpunkt radikalerSalafisten. Jetzt hat die Polizei ein Vereinsverbot durchgesetzt. Am frühen Dienstagmorgen gingen die Beamten mit einer groß angelegten Razzia gegen die salafistische Szene im niedersächsischen Hildesheim vor. Zuvor hatte das Landesinnenministerium den Verein “Deutschsprachiger Islamkreis Hildesheim e.V.” (DIK) verboten. In […]

Libanesische Moderatorin: Israel soll Welt von Nasrallah befreien. Eine libanesische Fernsehmoderatorin hat Israel über Twitter aufgefordert, die Welt vor dem Hisbollah-Anführer Nasrallah zu retten. Gleichzeitig lieferte sie einen Vorschlag, wie Israel vorgehen solle. BEIRUT (inn) – Die libanesische Journalistin und politische Analystin Maria Maaluf nimmt […]

Deutschland und Japan suchen den digitalen Schulterschluss. Zugleich klagt der deutsche Ingenieursverband über zunehmende Engpässe bei der Suche nach IT-Fachkräften. Ein weiterer Akzent bei der IT-Messe CeBIT: Cybersicherheit. Betroffene Firmen scheuen die Öffentlichkeit. Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel und Japans Premierminister Shinzo Abe während ihres Rundgangs über […]