Police Tuesday identified the third attacker in the weekend terror assault in London amid mounting anger, two days before an election, over how the killers had apparently escaped surveillance. With flags at half-mast, Britain fell silent at 11:00 am to remember the seven killed and dozens injured Saturday – a ...

Prime Minister Saad Hariri chaired a highly important meeting Tuesday night attended by senior officials of the country’s main political parties in the latest attempt to resolve sticking points that threaten to unravel a deal on a new vote law based on proportional representation. The meeting at Hariri’s Beirut Downtown ...

Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk Tuesday praised the coordination between security agencies that helped prevent a planned suicide bomb attack in Beirut’s southern suburbs. “The planned suicide bombing in Beirut’s southern suburbs by terrorists was prevented due to a pre-emptive operation and coordination between the General Security and Internal Security Forces ...

President Michel Aoun said Tuesday that Lebanon was keenly engaged in the fight against terrorism, adding that the military operations currently implemented are serving their mission. Speaking during a meeting with United States Central Command’s Gen. Joseph Votel, Aoun said that the pre-emptive military operations the Lebanese Army has been ...

Prime Minister Saad Hariri Tuesday condemned Monday night’s suspected suicide attack in Manchester, which left at least 22 dead, including children, and scores wounded. The Premier addressed the tragedy via Twitter, expressing “Total solidarity with the people of Britain in the face of the cowardly terrorist attack in Manchester.” The ...

Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani toured Sidon Monday, discussing the recent crisis affecting hospitals across the country. Hasbani met with several religious and political figures during his visit. When asked about government aid to the Sidon Public Hospital and the Turki Hospital, Hasbani said: “Since taking over ...

Nazik Armenakyan has spent the last decade in a desperate race against death: She has been scouring Armenia searching for survivors of the Armenian genocide. She is determined to photograph them and provide an enduring document of their experiences a century ago. Although she found 45 survivors, she has sometimes ...

When the paper published an opinion piece about the new hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners, “a rash of readers” objected, according to Liz Spayd, its public editor – who insulted with her word choice even as she backed their case. The readers were angered, she suggested, by a “distorted characterization” ...

It may not be too late for a little course correction on how we’re all consuming and evaluating — or not — information in a digital environment. But squeezing some ideological diversity into readers’ media diets is far from a silver bullet to the problem of misinformation and partisan echo ...

The former vice president of Zimbabwe, Joice Mujuru, says she is open to forming an opposition coalition to unseat longtime President Robert Mugabe in the country’s 2018 elections—including with the Harare pastor who led a mass social media protest against Mugabe in 2016. In an interview with Newsweek, Mujuru—who was ...