Thousands of Lebanese Celebrate Cherries in Hammana
Maureen Décor 2024-06-10 13:13 - Reading : less than a minute
On Sunday, thousands of visitors flocked to Hammana for the cherry festival, marking the start of the harvest.
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WhatsApp Messages Sow Panic in South Lebanon Residents
This Is Beirut 2024-06-10 12:43 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A recent wave of panic in southern Lebanon has been triggered by a series of alarming messages, causing widespread distress among residents. The source of these messages is unclear, but some are believed to have been “pranks” by local Lebanese citizens. In Bazouriya, a WhatsApp message received just after midnight warned of an imminent ...
Lebanese Expatriates Vote in the European Elections
Aubin Eymard 2024-06-09 20:24 - Reading : less than a minute
On Sunday, polling stations opened in Beirut for expatriates residing in Lebanon. The turnout at the French Embassy in Beirut was similar to that of the last European elections.
Ghada Aoun: When Justice Is (Finally) Served!
Roger Merheb 2024-06-09 16:42 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On Sunday morning, the Public Prosecutor at the Mount Lebanon Court of Appeal, Ghada Aoun, had the nerve to tweet the following on her X account: "This country does not deserve justice; it deserves a mafia regime that controls all its resources. [...] The fight against corruption no longer makes sense. At least I leave with a clear conscience. ...
Bassil Visits Rai to Talk About Presidency
This Is Beirut 2024-06-09 15:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil Ghada Aoun
Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) chief Gebran Bassil said that the real fear is “laxity with regard to the presidential vacancy, and this issue must be separated from the others.” After meeting with Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai, Bassil stated that “there is a process aimed at preventing and blocking the election of a president of the ...
Audi to Officials: If the Country Disappears, There Will Be Nothing Left to Rule
This Is Beirut 2024-06-09 14:27 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Beirut Elias Audi wondered “what the Lebanese officials are waiting for,” in reference to the collapse of the country. “Do they realize, all of them—representatives, government, and leaders—that if the country disappears, there will be nothing left for them to rule, no one to represent, and no one to lead? ...
Rai: No Legitimacy for Any Authority That Contradicts Coexistence
This Is Beirut 2024-06-09 12:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
During his sermon on Sunday in Bkerke, Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai emphasized that “Lebanon cannot be manipulated by not electing a president because it undermines the covenant of coexistence.” He stated that the preamble of the constitution states that there is no legitimacy for any authority that contradicts coexistence. Rai stressed ...
The Judiciary in the Hands of a Supremacist Militia
2024-06-09 11:39 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
As Lebanese society has grown indifferent to accusations of “collaboration with the Zionist enemy,” Hezbollah has shifted its focus to the new hot topic of the 2019 popular uprising: corruption. Every target it aims to undermine is now accused of this offense. Its political, media and legal apparatus promptly mobilizes to fabricate the ...
20 People Arrested in US Embassy Shooting
This Is Beirut 2024-06-08 19:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Twenty people have been arrested, including the gunman, in connection with Wednesday's shooting at the American Embassy in Awkar, according to a judicial source quoted by Agence France-Presse (AFP) on condition of anonymity. The Lebanese Army said it had wounded the assailant, before arresting him and taking him to the hospital. Qais Farraj, a ...
ALES Reveals Lebanon's Largest Sinkhole
This Is Beirut 2024-06-08 19:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Lebanese Association for Speleological Studies (ALES) has revealed that the Qattine Azar sinkhole, discovered in Aintoura al-Metn, is the most developed underground system in Lebanon and the Levant. ALES announced, during a press conference held on Friday at the French Cultural Mission in Beirut, that this sinkhole, with a depth of 507 ...
Cultural Diplomacy: China's Soft Power in the Land of the Cedars (2/3)
2024-06-08 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
"The art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." This simplified version of the words of Chinese thinker Sun Tzu in his eleventh-century essay, The Art of War, resonates today as Beijing challenges American leadership on the global stage. Central to this strategy is a soft power extending beyond Chinese borders, particularly in the ...
Le Drian Tackles Lebanese File in Vatican
2024-06-08 17:42 - Reading : less than a minute