CNN accused President Donald Trump of encouraging violence against journalists after he posted a video on social media showing himself body slamming and repeatedly punching a man with the cable news network’s logo superimposed on his face. In the latest escalation of his war with the US news media the ... Read More »
Three decades after it abandoned vinyl production, Sony said it would start making records again on the back of surging demand for the retro music format. A factory southwest of Tokyo will be churning out freshly pressed records by March next year, Sony Music Entertainment said Thursday. The Japanese giant ... Read More »
let’s imagine a Chinese “applied history” project, similar to the one at Harvard’s Belfer Center that helped spawn professor Graham Allison’s widely discussed book “Destined for War.” Allison’s historical analysis led him to posit a “Thucydides Trap” and the danger (if not inevitability) of war between a rising China and ... Read More »
Tenants under the old rent law have begun to leave the properties they have lived in for decades, following legislation passed in March that favored the rights of property owners. The law, which impacts approximately 200,000 apartments, mostly in Beirut and its suburbs, allows for an incremental increase in rents, ... Read More »
Arab nations extended a deadline early Monday for Qatar to respond to their list of demands in a diplomatic crisis roiling the Gulf, saying Kuwait’s emir requested the delay as part of his efforts to mediate the dispute. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut off ties ... Read More »
In a statement over the weekend, the Army confirmed reports that a Syrian national suspected of the murder of an Army officer in 2014 had been arrested. Identified Saturday as Ahmad Khaled Diab, the suspect was officially apprehended by Army Intelligence “over affiliation with terrorist groups.” Following his arrest, Diab ... Read More »
The economic future of Lebanon rests on the innovation and adaptive nature of the country’s youth, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said at a graduation ceremony at Antonine University in Mount Lebanon’s Baabda over the weekend. In his speech, the prime minister acknowledged the responsibility of the politicians to create and ... Read More »
Another 50 people have been arrested over the weekend for celebratory gunfire after last week’s Grade 9 Brevet exams, Internal Security Forces announced Sunday, bringing the total of arrests to 75. In a statement released by the Internal Security Forces late Friday, the force said 177 suspects were wanted in ... Read More »
Minister of State for Refugee Affairs Mouin Merehbi Monday insisted that Lebanon’s borders are “open” for the return of refugees in coordination with the United Nations, but not with the Syrian government. “The Syrian regime is criminal,” Merehbi said in an interview with Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5). “Calls to ... Read More »
The Cabinet is set to meet this week to discuss some 92 items and follow up on the government’s controversial electricity reform plan, ministerial sources said yesterday. Set to be chaired by President Michel Aoun at Baabda Palace at 11 a.m. Wednesday, the meeting will be the first since the ... Read More »
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