This Is Beirut 2024-09-09 23:53 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The Council of Ministers is set to convene on Tuesday at the Grand Serail to discuss a comprehensive agenda, including several items, alongside a presentation from Finance Minister Youssef Khalil on the 2025 draft budget. However, this session may be disrupted by impending protests from retired military personnel. They are calling for a salary ...
2024-09-09 22:58 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The upcoming Council of Ministers, set for Tuesday at 9 AM, is highly anticipated, with tensions rising. As early as Sunday, retired military personnel issued a stern warning, threatening to block the government meeting if a revision of their salaries is not given priority on the agenda. They are calling for a permanent solution through ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-09 20:22 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The United States Embassy in Beirut issued a communiqué announcing the 2025-2026 Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Program (YES). According to the statement, this scholarship program provides high school students between the ages of 15 and 17 with the opportunity to spend a full academic year in the US. Selected students will live with ...
2024-09-09 19:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The rehabilitation of Lebanese roads is the focus of an ambitious program initiated by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport in June of 2023. A section spanning several hundred kilometers is currently undergoing restoration, with over a hundred projects covering the entire territory. "No region has been spared in this process of restoring ...
Ahmad Ayash 2024-09-09 18:24 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The departure or expulsion of the four MPs from the "Free Patriotic Movement" (FPM) came amid complete silence from Hezbollah regarding what its partner in the "Mar Mikhael Understanding" is going through. This is despite the fact that the FPM leadership has not failed so far to keep up with Hezbollah's affairs and its ongoing concerns ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-09 18:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Beirut's interim investigating judge, Bilal Halaoui, issued an arrest warrant on Monday against the ex-central bank governor, Riad Salameh. He also scheduled a second hearing for Thursday, during which witnesses are expected to be heard. Salameh, who remains in custody, has 24 hours to appeal the judge’s decision before the indictment chamber. ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-09 17:39 - Reading : less than a minute
The Lebanese Ministry of Health received 33 tons of emergency medical supplies from UNICEF on Monday, in the presence of Lebanon's Caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad and UNICEF's representative in Lebanon, Edward Beigbeder. This aid is intended to support the residents of southern Lebanon during wartime. [gallery link="none" size="large" ...
2024-09-09 13:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A delegation of MPs from the Strong Republic bloc submitted a letter on Monday morning to caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati requesting the removal of obstacles hindering the judicial investigator's work and the completion of the Beirut port blast investigation. After the meeting, MP Ghassan Hasbani spoke on behalf of the delegation, noting ...
2024-09-09 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The truce negotiations have proven their limitations more and more and have yielded no tangible results. The Iranians are still blocking the venues of communication throughout the Middle East. The Arab countries are still hobbled and unable to move on any issues compromising the future of regional peace. The Israelis are prisoners to their ...
Michel Touma 2024-09-09 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
“There's many a slip between the cup and the lip” … Without indulging into misplaced cynicism, this old French proverb captures perfectly the political-military quagmire in which Hezbollah and its regional “sponsor” have long been entrenched. Both players, highly active on the Middle Eastern stage—and at times far beyond—consistently ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-08 15:54 - Reading : less than a minute
The Committee of Contractual Teachers in the Public Sector has called for a Cabinet session dedicated to public education, specifically focused on the following points: increasing teachers' salaries to be equivalent to those of professors at the Lebanese University, raising the wages of contract teachers, and funding school budgets at the national ...
2024-09-08 14:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affaires Abdallah Bou Habib made a statement suggesting that Israel might not stop its military operations in southern Lebanon, even if a ceasefire is reached in Gaza. In an interview with Al Jazeera English, the foreign minister based his remarks on statements from Israeli officials and messages conveyed to Lebanon ...