Society

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” […]

Executive decrees for offshore oil and gas exploration will be issued within two weeks, the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa newspaper reported on Sunday. “An agreement has been reached on issuing the oil law’s executive decrees within two weeks so that a call for tenders can be organized,” […]

Children are the basis of every community. With them, the future finds its way. In Lebanon, many children and adults are in need of medical aid, much like many other parts of the world. These children are being treated by NGOs, that require constant funding. […]

War has long ended, but power rationing has not. Promises after promises were given to the citizens, but none of them has ever been kept. Before the year 1975, Lebanon had a 24-hour power supply, and it used to sell electricity to Syria. In 1991 […]

A minor earthquake was felt Wednesday afternoon across several Lebanese regions, mainly Mount Lebanon and Beirut. The state-run Bhannes National Center for Geophysical Research said the epicenter of the quake was the Chouf-Deir al-Qamar area in Mount Lebanon and that it measured 4.0 on the […]