by Charbel Lebbos | Dec 18, 2022 | Arab Economy, Arab News
Lebanon is determined to uncover the circumstances that led to the killing of an Irish UN peacekeeper, caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati said during a visit to the headquarters of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) on Friday. Private Sean Rooney, 23, was...
by Charbel Lebbos | Dec 9, 2022 | Arab Economy, Arab News
Lebanon’s divided parliament failed for the ninth time to elect a successor to former president Michel Aoun, extending the power vacuum ― the country has been without a president and been ruled by a caretaker government with limited powers since May. The...
by Charbel Lebbos | Dec 9, 2022 | Arab News
This year in Lebanon, hope and perseverance are symbolised by a Christmas tree. The holidays in Byblos are a dazzling sight, despite the country entering the fourth year of a financial crisis that has paralysed state institutions, caused basic services to collapse...
by Charbel Lebbos | Dec 8, 2022 | Arab News, World News
Lebanon has arrested 185 people suspected of collaborating with Israel since Lebanon’s economic collapse three years ago, which left many Lebanese desperate for cash, two security sources told AFP on Wednesday. That number has jumped significantly from a...
by Charbel Lebbos | Dec 7, 2022 | Arab News, World News
A Swiss foundation and a Lebanese NGO on Monday sought to pressure western countries into imposing sanctions on Lebanese leaders by filing legal petitions at the US Treasury and two European Union bodies, three years into the small Mediterranean country’s...
by Charbel Lebbos | Dec 7, 2022 | Arab Economy, Arab News
Of those households, 32 per cent reported that without remittances, they could not cover expenses. Forty-one per cent told the Mercy Corps, a humanitarian NGO, that they could not cover most basic needs without financial help from abroad. Households receive...
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