Zaineb Saab locked the door to her house and did not dare make a sound when the killing started in Sabra and Shatila, two neighbourhoods home to a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon’s capital Beirut.
It has been three years since the August 4 Beirut Port explosion. To commemorate that dark day in the lives of many in Lebanon, hundreds of people met at the fire station in Karantina and marched to the outskirts of the port.
Despite overwhelming challenges and daily struggles brought about by the current economic crisis, Lebanese companies, professionals, and freelancers continue to innovate, and coworking spaces help maintain resilience in a rapidly globalizing and digitizing world.
A protest in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Beirut calling for the expulsion of Syrian refugees in Lebanon that was scheduled for April 26 was canceled after caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi sent a letter to the security forces to prevent any demonstration or counter-demonstration from taking place over fears of clashes between the two sides.
Israel and Lebanon have reached a US-brokered agreement to settle their long-disputed maritime border, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said, potentially unlocking significant offshore gas production.
Lebanese celebrated at home and abroad on Thursday, despite their homeland’s crises, as they woke up to the news that a local female dance troop, Mayyas, had won the “America’s Got Talent” competition on US television, bagging a $1 million prize, Reuters reports.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun says his country wants the “best relations” with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries amid an ongoing diplomatic rift with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Roadblocks were set up by demonstrators across much of cash-strapped Lebanon after the currency plummeted to a historic low.
Salameh says the audit by a renowned firm he did not name has shown that “not a single penny” was used from public funds to pay fees and commissions to his brother’s company Forry Associates Ltd.
In response to the tragic fuel tanker explosion that occurred in Akkar on August 15, 2021, Japan has decided to dispatch essential medicines and medical supplies, through the International Organization For Migration (IOM), to Al-Salam Hospital in Tripoli, where several of those who sustained injuries in the blast are receiving treatment.
