Provided by Xinhua by Dana HalawiBEIRUT Dec 20 Xinhua — Hoping to reap a huge profit from the current Christmas season Ali Harb a Lebanese clo …
UN and Lebanon hold memorial for killed Irish peacekeeper
The Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers have held a memorial at Beirut airport for an Irish soldier killed in southern Lebanon last week …
Tariff Hike Squeezes Struggling Lebanese as Reforms Stall
” Lebanon’s economic meltdown, now in its fourth year, has seen the currency lose more than 95% of its value and left eight in 10 Lebanese poor, according to the United Nations. With foreign currency …
Tariff Hike Squeezes Struggling Lebanese as Reforms Stall
” Lebanon’s economic meltdown, now in its fourth year, has seen the currency lose more than 95% of its value and left eight in 10 Lebanese poor, according to the United Nations. With foreign currency …
As Lebanon unravels, Beirut neighborhood takes security into its own hands
Amid Beirut’s unlit streets, men wield torches and batons to ensure security and safety in the neighborhood in an initiative that began in Achrafieh, one of Beirut’s oldest and most charming districts …
People in Lebanon are robbing banks and staging sit-ins to access their own savings
Lebanon’s banks froze accounts three years ago amid an economic collapse. Now, under increasingly desperate circumstances, people are resorting to extreme measures to access their savings accounts.
Three Lebanon car dealerships charged for title-washing
Title-washing can make a car seem more valuable. It also bypasses safety inspections that are legally required to put damaged cars back on the road.
Explaining conflict in Lebanon: a complex patchwork of religious and ethnic rivalries
BLESSED by nature and with an enterprising people, Lebanon has been cursed by geography, religion and history.
Explaining conflict in Lebanon: a complex patchwork of religious and ethnic rivalries
BLESSED by nature and with an enterprising people, Lebanon has been cursed by geography, religion and history.
UN force in Lebanon urges swift probe into Irish peacekeeper’s death
The United Nations’ peacekeeping force in Lebanon on Friday urged Beirut to ensure a “speedy” investigation into an Irish soldier’s shooting death in the country’s south this week.The convoy of the …