This is Beirut, 25/02 14:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Ukraine will need over $500 billion to repair the damage resulting from the Russian invasion, which has entered its fourth year, according to a joint assessment published Tuesday. "The total cost of reconstruction and recovery in Ukraine is $524 billion over the next decade," said a statement published by Ukraine, the World Bank Group, the ...
This is Beirut, 25/02 13:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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In a press release on Tuesday, the Lebanese American Coordinating Committee (LACC) announced that it will hold meetings at the White House, the State Department, the House of Representatives and the Senate as part of its efforts to advocate sovereignty and reform in Lebanon. The committee will present a paper outlining Lebanon’s key challenges ...
This is Beirut, 24/02 23:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The European Union on Monday eased sanctions on Syria's energy, transport and banking sectors in a bid to help the country's reconstruction after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. Syria's new leaders have been clamouring for the West to ease sanctions imposed on Assad's regime during the civil war. But Europe and other powers have ...
Élie-Joe Kamel, 24/02 18:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The demographic crisis that Ukraine has been suffering from for decades has worsened over the past three years. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and the country’s independence a year later, Ukraine had approximately 52 million inhabitants. Today, the Ukrainian population is estimated at nearly 35 million, according to the United Nations ...
This is Beirut, 21/02 12:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Syria would need more than 50 years to get back to its economic level before its devastating civil war at current growth rates, the United Nations said Thursday. "Fourteen years of conflict in Syria have undone nearly four decades of economic, social, and human capital progress," the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said. "At current growth ...
This is Beirut, 20/02 18:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Informal border crossings from Syria into Lebanon persist, with a total of 89,000 arrivals reported in Baalbeck as of February 12, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced in a statement on Wednesday. Among them, only 20,000 are Lebanese returnees, the agency said. While daily crossings at the Masnaa official border ...
This is Beirut, 19/02 11:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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France has reaffirmed the "necessity for the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanese territory, as soon as possible, in accordance with the provisions of the ceasefire agreement." In a statement released on Tuesday evening, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Paris had "acknowledged the continued withdrawal of ...
Natasha Metni Torbey, 19/02 09:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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After several months of a – partial – cessation of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, the expiration of the ceasefire raises important legal questions about security, particularly whether hostilities could (or could not) resume. The ceasefire agreement, which was decreed in November 2024 for a period of 60 days, was renewed in January ...
This is Beirut, 18/02 11:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The deadline for the Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon, under the ceasefire agreement, expired at dawn on Tuesday, after the Israeli army confirmed its intention to maintain its forces at five strategic points along the Lebanese border. However, at dawn on Tuesday, Israel proceeded with the withdrawal from several cities and villages it had ...
This is Beirut, 17/02 11:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Columns of M23 fighters allied with Rwandan troops on Sunday entered the center of another key city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as the African Union highlighted growing fears that the strife-torn country could break up. Scores of people have fled since the fighters reached outlying districts of Bukavu, capital of South Kivu ...
This is Beirut, 15/02 10:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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President Joseph Aoun vowed on Saturday to punish the perpetrators of an attack on a United Nations peacekeeping convoy a day earlier that wounded the force's outgoing deputy commander. Aoun "condemned the attack... and emphasized that the attackers will receive their punishment," the presidency said in a statement on X. "Security forces will ...
This is Beirut, 13/02 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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France has proposed that some soldiers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), including French troops, be deployed in positions in southern Lebanon to allow for a "complete and definitive" withdrawal of Israel, announced Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Thursday. "The ceasefire has been extended until February 18, the ...