A total eclipse that crossed the sky from Oregon to South Carolina brought out throngs of spectators, who exulted in seeing the midday sky go briefly dark. The New York Times By HENRY FOUNTAIN 21 August, 2017 CHARLESTON, S.C. — The United States basked in the glory of ... Read More »
Minister of Information Melhem Al-Riyashi received today, at his office in the ministry, the head of Rachaya Development Committee Lilian Malouli. After the meeting, Maalouli confirmed that she had presented with Minister Al-Riyashi “the subject of the Transfiguration on Mount Hermon, which is the focus of several development projects in ... Read More »
The United Nations Information Center in Beirut is organizing a training workshop for media professionals on “Sustainable Development Goals”, sponsored by Information Minister Melhem Riachi, on Thursday 7 and Friday, 8 September 2017, at the SmallVille Hotel, Badaro, Beirut. The workshop aims at informing journalists about these global goals and ... Read More »
President of the Republic Michel Aoun has signed a legal and a series of salaries and salaries and issued them according to the constitutional principles. Read More »
Ten U.S. sailors are missing after a collision between the USS John S. McCain and a tanker early Monday east of Singapore, the second accident involving a ship from the Navy’s 7th Fleet in the Pacific in two months. The Navy said five sailors were hurt in the collision between ... Read More »
The body of Ahmad al-Balli, a Lebanese national killed in last week’s terror attack in Burkina Faso, arrived in Beirut Sunday. Representatives of premier Saad Hariri received the body at Rafik Hariri International Airport, the state-run National News Agency reported. Mourning residents of Balli’s native village of Aazqi al-Dinnieh, in ... Read More »
The Lebanese Army had liberated two-thirds of Daesh- (ISIS) occupied territories on the outskirts of Ras Baalbeck and Al-Qaa by Sunday evening, killing 35 militants in the process as they seek to eradicate the last vestiges of militant threats to national security. Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and one critically ... Read More »
RT 21 August, 2017 The Lebanese army has scored major victories in the ongoing offensive against Islamic State terrorists along the Syrian border, securing over a dozen of outposts, and raising a Spanish flag in solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attacks in Catalonia. The Lebanese army seized 80 ... Read More »
The Telegraph 18 August, 2017 by Helena Horton, Barney Henderson, Robert Midgley At least 13 people were killed and 100 injured on Thursday when a driver deliberately slammed a van into crowds on Barcelona’s most popular street in what police confirmed was a terror attack. The attack, the latest in a wave ... Read More »
Parliament Wednesday repealed Penal Code Article 522, known as the “marry your rapist law,” following years of campaigning by women’s rights advocates. Adopted from the 1810 French Penal Code, the law exonerated a rapist if they married their victim. The abolition was welcomed by concerned organizations, however many said yet ... Read More »
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