This is Beirut 30/04 12:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Telecoms South Lebanon Charles Hajj
During a visit to Rmeish in South Lebanon, Minister of Telecommunications Charles Hage announced that telecom coverage has been restored in 80% of the war-stricken region, thanks to swift and coordinated efforts. Speaking to Al Jadeed, the minister noted that 20% of the area still lacks coverage due to the continued Israeli occupation of ...
This is Beirut 30/04 12:40 - Reading : less than a minute
Lebanon Municipal elections Beirut
The Public Relations Department of the Beirut Municipality announced in a statement on Wednesday that the Governor of Beirut, Judge Marwan Abboud, has issued a circular concerning electoral advertising for the upcoming municipal elections. The circular instructs all candidates to restrict their campaign advertisements to the designated billboards ...
This is Beirut 30/04 12:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Joseph Aoun Kuwait United Arab Emirates
President Joseph Aoun departed from Rafic Hariri International Airport this afternoon, accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Youssef Raji, on a two-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in response to an invitation from UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. During the visit, President ...
This is Beirut 30/04 11:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ceasefire Israel Kuwait United States
US Army General Michael J. Leeney has officially assumed the presidency of the ceasefire monitoring commission between Lebanon and Israel, succeeding his compatriot, General Jasper Jeffers. Born in 1966 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Michael J. Leeney is a seasoned general officer in the US Army. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in ...
This is Beirut 30/04 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Outgoing head of the Ceasefire Monitoring Committee, US General Jasper Jeffers, on Wednesday toured Lebanese officials, including President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Lebanese Army Commander in chief, Gen. Rodolphe Haikal, to introduce his successor, General Michael Leeney. The meetings were in the presence ...
This Is Beirut 30/04 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
education minister baccaleaureate schools
Minister of Education Rima Karami announced on Wednesday that Lebanon’s official baccalaureate exams will begin on July 9 and span five days. The academic year will be extended until June 13, with school principals granted the flexibility to organize schedules as they see fit. Speaking at a press conference dedicated to the official ...
This is Beirut 30/04 08:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
International Monetary Fund Lebanon Growth GDP-Lebanon
Sharp GDP Contraction Lebanon is now in its sixth consecutive year of economic crisis, with key indicators remaining at their lowest levels, according to the World Economic Outlook (WEO) report published in April 2025 by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). GDP contraction continues, and despite a slight easing of inflation and the current ...
This is Beirut 29/04 17:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
United Arab Emirates Hezbollah Israel Joseph Aoun
The Lebanese Presidency announced on its X account that President Joseph Aoun will travel on Wednesday to the United Arab Emirates for a two-day official visit at the request of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE and Emir of Abu Dhabi. According to the statement, Aoun will hold talks with Sheikh Al Nahyan and other senior ...
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 29/04 15:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
USA America United States Donald Trump
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an American think tank, believes that “trusting the Americans is a bad idea.” Carnegie’s Michael Young did not qualify what he meant by “the Americans.” Did he mean the US government? Its policies? Or just all of the Americans, wholesale? Young even took a swipe at the May 17, 1983 ...
Johnny Kortbawi 29/04 13:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel Donald Trump Hezbollah Middle East Lebanon
The hands of the clock have frozen in the Middle East as the region waits out the deadline set by US President Donald Trump and his administration to conclude negotiations with Iran—before a potential military escalation that would decisively tip the balance in Israel’s favor. But everything unfolding in the region during this lull amounts to ...
This is Beirut 29/04 13:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Lebanese public has grown increasingly exasperated by the recurring tendency to unjustly implicate Mr. Antoun Sehnaoui in every unfortunate incident or reprehensible crime, to the point that such claims now verge on the absurd. It is as though the old saying, “Blame it on the Italians,” has, in the minds of certain malicious ...
This is Beirut 29/04 13:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon Bent Jbeil South Israel UNIFIL
A UNIFIL patrol was intercepted on Tuesday by residents of Bint Jbeil after entering the town without an escort from the Lebanese Army. A #UNIFIL patrol was intercepted by residents of #BintJbeil. pic.twitter.com/8joFllMnAM— This is Beirut (@ThisIsBeirut_) April 29, 2025 This marks the second such incident in southern Lebanon in less ...