Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)She’s struggled for funding in a country where sport has long been overshadowed by politics and even bloody conflict — but Ray Bassil is on the cusp of something special. The 27-year old arrived at the 2016 Olympics Games in Rio de Janeiro […]
Lebanese athletes refused to share a bus with the Israel team to get to Friday’s Rio Olympic Games opening ceremony, members of both teams said. Lebanon and Israel are officially at war and have no diplomatic relations. The incident happened as the Lebanon team sat […]
NNA – Sports and Youth Minister, Abdel Mottalib Hennawi, on Thursday congratulated the sports media on forming its special union in accordance to decree number 8990, stressing his ministry’s support in this regard. Hennawi’s stance came as he received today at his office the foundation […]
NNA – “Lebanese Democratic Party” Head, MP Talal Arslan, praised on Saturday Lebanon’s delegation to the Olympics in Brazil, saying via Twitter: “Congratulations on the Lebanese delegation’s national position at the Olympic Games, an honorable stand par excellence!”
Two female officers were injured after being attacked by a machete-wielding man near the police station in the Belgian city of Charleroi, the authorities said. The perpetrator, who could be heard shouting “Allahu Akbar,” was shot by a third officer on site, the RTL radio […]
Syrian rebels broke through to besieged opposition-held areas in eastern Aleppo on Saturday in an assault on a major government military complex meant to end a month-long siege, insurgents and a monitoring group said. Pro-government media outlets denied the siege had been broken. The heavy […]
An airstrike on a hospital in northwestern Syria on Saturday killed 10 people, including children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The hospital, in the town of Meles, is about 15 km from Idlib city in rebel-held Idlib province. Syrian government and allied Russian […]
BEIRUT: Time was young men would run off to the circus for adventure; dreaming of glamour and fame, performing like heroes in the center ring to the roar of the crowds, replete with visions of pretty show girls dashing about. For the now 60-something-year-old Claude […]
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, all to the pounding beat of samba, bossa nova and funk. […]
BEIRUT: The U.N. says it wants to resume Syria peace talks in late August, but more than five years after anti-government protests erupted in 2011, the country is still consumed by fighting. Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and once its commercial hub, is the focal point […]
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