Food Blessed non-profit organisation is working to redistribute food leftovers from restaurants and shops to those in need …
Iraq: Alleged US airstrike targeting Iran-backed militia kills 6 – report
The area could contain several weapon storage facilities meant to be used by the militias as well as to be smuggled into Syria and Lebanon.
Lebanon’s downhill spiral hits the weakest
As Lebanon struggles to contain COVID-19 infections, the number of people suffering from extreme poverty has tripled in the past year. Some Syrian refugees in the country are embittered enough to …
Lebanon’s COVID-19 spike overwhelms battered hospitals and exhausted doctors
Countries worldwide are feeling the strain, but few have had to deal with anything like Lebanon’s crisis, where the pandemic piled in on top of a financial collapse and a huge port blast in August …
Pinning Down Moving Targets: Adapting humanitarian cash programmes to the multi-pronged crises in Lebanon
English Analysis on Lebanon about Coordination, Food and Nutrition, Epidemic and more; published on 17 Jan 2021 by DSP …
Bahrain’s Bank ABC eyes $427m deal for Egyptian business of Lebanon’s Blom
Bahrain-based Arab Banking Corporation (Bank ABC) has entered into an agreement with Lebanon’s Blom Bank to acquire its 99.4 percent stake of its Egyptian unit. Completion of the acquisition of Blom …
Lebanon’s bank depositors dread losing life savings
Bank depositors in Lebanon, who woke up one day more than a year ago to face the painful reality that their life savings are stuck in the banks, are now bracing for the worst: Most of their money, if …
Chess4Solidarity organizes game between Israel and Bhutan
However in this recent tournaments players from Lebanon, Syria and other countries that do not have diplomatic ties with Israel have logged in to play.
Lebanon Patriarch Tells Feuding President and PM-Designate to Reconcile
Rai speaks after meeting with Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon July 15, 2020. Dalati Nohra/Handout via REUTERS Reuters BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s top …
Pyramid discovery points to a first for Lebanon
A hiker in northern Lebanon has found a pyramid-shaped burial monument believed to be 1,500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.The monument is only 10ft tall and a monolithic …