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Lebanese Forces” Party Leader Samir Geagea denounced, in an issued statement on Sunday, the “terrorism moving from country to country, which has recently hit both Istanbul and Cairo in cowardly and condemnable acts.” Geagea offered his heartfelt condolences to the Turkish State and the families […]

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s daily newspaper, As-Safir, will stop publication at the end of 2016 after 40 years of operations, in the latest sign of the growing crisis facing publishers worldwide amid a drop in circulation and lower advertising revenues. The newspaper’s publisher, Talal Salman, informed Friday […]

Updated 5 p.m. ET The first American to orbit the Earth has died. John Glenn was the last surviving member of the original Mercury astronauts. He would later have a long political career as a U.S. senator, but that didn’t stop his pioneering ways. Glenn […]

Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, awarded on Sunday posthumously renowned singer Melhem Barakat the insignia of the National Order of the Cedar. A mass was held in Kfarchima marking the 40th Day commemoration of Barakat’s death, in presence of Caretaker Economy and Trade Minister, Alain Hakim, […]

Head of the Independence Movement, Michel Mouawad, called on Sunday for “turning the page on all differences and rallying around the new presidential mandate since no side can be eliminated or overlooked in the country.” “The nation is enough to accommodate all parties and sides,” […]

Among the 81 passengers on board the plane that crashed Monday in Columbia, there was one passenger of Lebanese origins. His mother is from Boustani family and his father from Koury family. According to al-Arabiya.net, Dr. Marico Boustani Khoury was the physician of the Brazilian […]

The Pentagon announced in a statement on Thursday that an American service member in Syria died from injuries suffered by an improvised explosive device. “I am deeply saddened by the news on this Thanksgiving Day that one of our brave service members has been killed […]

Family and friends filled the Saint Nicolas Church in Beirut’s Ashrafieh area Sunday as they said their final goodbyes to one of Lebanon’s most beloved singers and composers, Melhem Barakat, who passed away two days ago

NNA – The funerals of renowned singer Melhem Barakat will take place at Saint Nicolas Church, Ashrafieh, on Sunday, before heading to his hometown Kfarshima where he will be laid to rest, poet Nizar Francis told the National News Agency on Friday.