UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations and its partners are “ready to roll” with aid to Syrians in besieged areas, but the deteriorating security situation in the country is keeping it from being delivered, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday. Undersecretary-General Stephen O’Brien said that attacks […]
Following the example of her high compatriot Gabrielle Doueihy, Anthony Barbara, who will participate in the contest of the 50ms free swim, takes part of five Lebanese athletes who benefited of an invitation to the Olympic Games of Rio De Janeiro. Anthony John Barbara, with […]
Friday night saw a parade of athletes from nearly every country around the world, but even in a time of music and celebration, information was passed along to news sources that didn’t quite pass muster when held up to the light. It seems that Palestinian […]
An increasing number of asylum seekers in Germany fed up with the slow processing of their asylum requests have filed nearly 6,000 legal complaints about reviewing their refugee applications for too long. The German Ministry for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) confirmed the number to the […]
MOSCOW: The Russian military says fighting in Aleppo will cease for three hours daily to allow humanitarian aid deliveries. Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian military’s General Staff said Wednesday that the daily cease-fires will be observed from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. local […]
BEIRUT: In 1988, Egyptian Foreign Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali said that the next war in the Middle East would be fought over water, not politics. What is the situation nearly 30 years on, as the region’s water resources have dropped to precariously low levels and population […]
The US is a party to multiple defense alliances with benefits unclear. Although Republican nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly hit the US foreign policy establishment’s raw nerve by saying that the NATO alliance is obsolete, neither Trump, nor Hillary is likely to reconsider the US’ […]
NNA – Education and Higher Learning Minister, Elias Bou Saab, said that harmony prevailed over yesterday’s meting between Foreign Affairs Minister Gibran Bassil and House Speaker Nabih Berri, warning that “if pending matters, especially political ones, are not resolved, we will reach a bigger crisis.” […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia says its air force has intercepted two ballistic missiles fired from Yemen into the kingdom. A Saudi military statement says the missiles were fired on Wednesday morning toward the cities of Abha and Khamis Mushait, both of which are close […]
SANAA, Yemen: Airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition bombed a food factory in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa early on Tuesday, killing 14 civilians working on an overnight shift, according to a factory official and medics. Five women were among those killed in what effectively was […]
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