This Is Beirut 2024-01-21 20:09 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Journalist Riad Tawk will appear in court on Tuesday following a libel suit filed against him by the Deputy Prosecutor General at the Court of Cassation, Sabbouh Sleiman. On Tuesday, Judge Sleiman suspended the execution of the arrest warrant against former Minister of Public Works, Youssef Fenianos, who is being prosecuted for administrative ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-21 17:33 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Dozens of environmental activists gathered in Amchit on Sunday to protest against private construction work overlooking the natural coastal cave that is home to Mediterranean monk seals. Activist Farid Abi Younes called on Saturday for the demonstration, when the work on the building site resumed despite the opposition of the inhabitants of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-21 16:33 - Reading : less than a minute
The website of the Lebanese Parliament was anonymously hacked this Sunday afternoon, January 21. The official webpage, www.lp.gov.lb, has been inaccessible since then.
This Is Beirut 2024-01-21 14:06 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai has once again warned against "marginalizing the Maronite community" and called on Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to "open the doors of Parliament" by calling an election meeting. "Stop keeping the doors of the presidential palace closed! Stop marginalizing the Maronite community, which is a founding element of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-21 12:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Elie Aoun, former Maronite MP from Chouf, died on Sunday at the age of 84. He was a former member of the Progressive Socialist Party's parliamentary bloc and a lawyer who first entered Parliament in 2000 on the list of Druze leader Walid Joumblatt. He was re-elected again in 2005, and once more in 2009, on the same list. Born in Damour in 1939, ...
2024-01-21 10:44 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
During its session on January 12, the Cabinet discreetly approved the conditional allocation of Blocks 8 and 10 to the consortium consisting of Total-Energies, Eni, and Qatar Energy. This decision was taken after unsuccessful negotiations led by the Petroleum Sector Administration to amend the two offers submitted by the consortium for the ...
2024-01-20 21:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah stressed on Saturday that Hamas's Al-Aqsa Flood operation against Israel on October 7 was a "game-changer," as it "put the Palestinian cause back on the regional and international stage." "Since the occupation of Palestine, Israel has been working on two tracks," added Hassan Nasrallah in a speech read ...
2024-01-20 18:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Education Abbas Halabi expressed optimism that the strike by private school teachers will likely be prevented. "I'm waiting until Monday to finalize the agreement (on retirement pensions) reached last Tuesday at the Ministry between the union of private educational establishments and the teachers' union," he said at the end ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-20 16:53 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
According to political circles close to the obstructionist axis (called al-Moumanaa), Kataeb al-Ezz al-Islamiya (Al-Ezz Brigades) is the name given to a fictitious group that is not known to the factions that gravitate in the orbit of this axis. According to the above-mentioned sources, this group is credited with any operation that has not been ...
2024-01-20 16:06 - Reading : less than a minute
Security forces at Beirut International Airport (BIA) announced that they had foiled an attempt to smuggle Captagon to Egypt on Friday evening. Three Syrian nationals attempted to smuggle 10 kilograms of the substance in cans.
Hala Abdallah 2024-01-20 15:44 - Reading : less than a minute
ALISEP organized a protest on Saturday to prompt the government to take immediate action to ensure the availability of necessary medications for multiple sclerosis patients. [readmore url="https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/lebanon/218547"]
Fady Noun 2024-01-20 14:06 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Maronite Church and the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome celebrated a very special event: the installation of a mosaic portraying Saint Charbel, placed in close proximity to the tomb of Saint Paul VI. It was Saint Paul VI who presided over the canonization mass of the hermit from Annaya on October 9, 1977. During that time, it’s worth noting ...