This is Beirut, 2024-11-02 15:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Journalism UNESCO Latin America
Worldwide killings of journalists jumped in 2022-23 compared with the previous two years, UN cultural body UNESCO said in a report Saturday, with almost all cases going unpunished. At 162 deaths, the number of journalists killed while working leaped 38 percent, the report found, calling the increase “alarming.” “In 2022 and ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-01 10:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Baalbeck Heritage Lebanon Culture Unesco
We urgently appeal to the heads of diplomatic missions, international organizations, heritage specialists, and all influential stakeholders to intervene and halt the relentless assaults on the city of Baalbeck and its archaeological complex, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984. Recent aggressions near the Acropolis have inflicted ...
This is Beirut, 2024-10-30 15:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Baalbeck israel heritage UNESCO
Israeli warplanes carried out more than 20 raids targeting the ancient city of Baalbeck within a period of half an hour on Monday afternoon, coinciding with Naim Qassem’s first address as Hezbollah’s new secretary general, succeeding the group’s slain chief Hassan Nasrallah. Ahead of the raids, an evacuation order issued by ...