On his first visit to Akkar’s municipal projects under the Lebanon Host Communities Support Programme, in partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme, British Ambassador to Lebanon, Hugo Shorter, inaugurated UK funded projects in Bani Sakher and Halba, and […]
My name is Roy Gergess, I am the father of Joseph Gergess who is currently 2 years old. Joseph and his mother travelled from Lebanon to the USA on September 12th for an appointment with Dr Fariba Rezzae (Pneumologist – Cleveland Clinic) because Joseph has […]
A dozen Lebanese women, dressed as brides in white wedding dresses stained with fake blood and bandages, have gathered outside government buildings in Lebanon’s capital to protest a law that allows a rapist to get away with his crime if he marries the survivor. The […]
The U.N. envoy for Libya said Tuesday that armed groups were carrying out “grave human rights abuses with impunity,” and he warned the international community against breaking the arms embargo. Martin Kobler said in Geneva that such abuses needed to be urgently addressed, and that […]
UNDP’s Helen Clark promotes female business leaders driving societal change. Sarah Beydoun of Lebanon and Jennifer Nkuene Riria of Kenya join Tore Lærdal of Norway as the 2016 Business for Peace Honourees His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon to attend Award Ceremony March 8, 2016 […]
NNA – Higher Learning and National Education Minister, Elias Bou Saab, said that differences between the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and the Prime Minister resulted from decisions taken outside the Cabinet. Bou Saab’s stance came during a luncheon hosted in his honor by Former Minister […]
BEIRUT: Women’s rights activists and human rights groups staged a protest Tuesday outside the Justice Palace in Beirut to demand a retrial in the case of a man who was sentenced to only three years in prison for murdering his wife. The protest, organized by […]
A quarter of a million Syrian children are growing up in Lebanon without an education. We look at the obstacle course they have to cross to get into the classroom. Ahmad was 13 years old, but he looked nine. He swaggered through the schoolyard like […]
ISIS remains a terror in the Middle East, but there is one place its influence seems to have diminished: the wilds of the internet. Twitter traffic to pro-ISIS accounts has fallen 45 percent in the past two years, according to the Obama administration, which of […]
Hope you’re not planning a trip to see the pyramids or Beirut anytime soon. Egypt and Lebanon are two of 22 countries on the government’s list to avoid, due to the threat of terrorist attacks Canadians are urged to “exercise a high degree of caution” […]
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