This is Beirut, 16/08 12:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Air Canada's flight attendants went on strike Saturday, as the airline announced a complete shutdown of operations, creating summer travel chaos for its 130,000 daily passengers. "We are now officially on strike," the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents Air Canada's 10,000 flight attendants, said in a statement. Air ...
This is Beirut, 08/08 11:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Lebanese Army Israel South Lebanon Strike
An Israeli drone strike on Friday targeted a vehicle on the Saida-Tyr highway near Phoenicia University, killing reporter and photographer Mohammad Chehade. Ambulance teams retrieved Chehade’s body from the targeted vehicle and transported it to a nearby hospital. According to a statement by the Israeli Army’s Arabic ...
This is Beirut, 07/08 11:40 - Reading : less than a minute
The League of Public Administration Employees announced on Thursday the suspension of its strike movement for the current week. The decision follows a request made by the directors general and the submission of an urgent list of demands to Prime Minister Nawaf Salam ahead of an upcoming meeting. In its statement, the League expressed hope for a ...
This is Beirut, 29/07 14:48 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it wanted to pursue peace in Ukraine hours after mounting attacks that killed at least 25 people, including a 23-year-old pregnant woman and more than a dozen prison inmates. The strikes on several regions came hours after US President Donald Trump issued Moscow with a new deadline to end its grinding invasion of ...
This is Beirut, 26/07 19:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hezbollah Israel Drone Strike Lebanon Commander
A Hezbollah commander and two others were killed on Saturday in two separate Israeli drone strikes in southern Lebanon. Israeli drones struck late in the afternoon a house with two missiles in the town of Debaal, killing Ali Gharib and Mohammad Abboud. The strike occurred in the town square, prompting immediate response from emergency ...
This is Beirut, 26/07 13:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Israel Lebanon Drone Strike Srifa
An Israeli drone strike killed Ali Abdel Kader Ismail after targeting a vehicle on the Tuwairi-Srifa road in Lebanon’s Tyre District. The Public Health Emergency Operations Center confirmed the fatality caused by the Israeli drone attack. Alongside the strike, several Israeli drones were reported flying across southern Lebanese towns. A ...
This is Beirut, 22/07 21:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
strike civil servants pay raise Lebanon
The League of Civil Servants announced on Tuesday evening the continuation of its strike on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, denouncing the government’s inaction in response to its demands, even those that “do not incur any cost to the state.” In its statement, the league criticized what it described as the government’s ...
This is Beirut, 17/07 11:50 - Reading : less than a minute
Israel Drone strike Lebanon Naqoura Nabatieh
One man was killed on Thursday after an Israeli drone strike targeted his truck while he was working on the outskirts of Naqoura. The drone crashed in the area after the strike. Another drone attack earlier in the day struck a pickup vehicle between Kfour and Toula (Nabatiyeh District). The vehicle burst into flames, prompting an immediate ...
This is Beirut, 16/07 09:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Volodymyr Zelensky Donald Trump Vladimir Putin Strike
At least 11 people were wounded in Russian overnight strikes on Ukraine, local authorities said Wednesday. The attacks came after US President Donald Trump gave Moscow 50 days to reach a peace deal with Ukraine. Eight people were wounded in strikes on Ukraine's central region of Vinnytsia, the regional military administration said on social ...
This is Beirut, 14/07 13:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Strike Corruption Lebanon Salaries Protests civil servants
Lebanese civil servants are once again raising their voices. In a statement issued Monday, the Public Sector League reiterated its full support for the ongoing strike, denouncing what it described as the "neglect of the most basic rights" of Lebanese public employees, who have become "the victims of the state’s collapse and its abdication of ...
This is Beirut, 12/07 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In a virulent communiqué, the Gathering of Civil Servants in the Public Administration issued an ultimatum to the authorities: grant an immediate meeting to start negotiations on their demands, or risk launching “unprecedented” protest actions, including a general strike and possible recourse to administrative disobedience. The ...
This is Beirut, 11/07 16:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon Israel Nmairiyeh drone strike Hezbollah
One person was killed and five others were injured on Friday afternoon in an Israeli drone strike that targeted a car traveling on the Nmairiya–Sharqiya road in the Nabatiyeh district. Four missiles were fired at the vehicle. On the evening, the Arabic-speaking spokesman for the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, announced that “the ...