The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, today visited her country’s troops serving in the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, and laid a wreath at the memorial dedicated to the 47 Irish soldiers who have died in the cause of peace there. McAleese was welcomed at Camp Shamrock, the Irish contingent’s base in the [...]
Syria has deployed a military unit along the northern border with Lebanon after reports of activists escaping into Lebanese territory, reports on the ground said. “The unit did not cross the border with Lebanon and did not carry out any security or military operation,” a Lebanese security source told German news agency DPA. The move [...]
LONDON: Lebanese security and censorship authorities have banned an Iranian documentary that looks into the Islamic Republic’s 2009 election. The documentary, “Red, White and the Green” deals specifically with the violence in the lead-up to the 2009 vote and organizers of the Beirut International Film Festival said on Sunday it was being pulled. “Lebanese censorship [...]
Lebanon’s Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn said on Thursday that Beirut had no obligation to protect Syrian opposition activists in the country. “US Ambassador Maura Connelly and her country can protect members of the Syrian opposition, but that does not necessarily oblige Lebanon and its army to do anything,” Ghosn told Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar Television Thursday night. [...]
BEIRUT: Lebanese women are fighting a silent revolution on the football field through the popular club programme of the Cross Cultures Project Association (CCPA) in Lebanon, which provides educational activities for those in post-conflict countries. Farah and Mirna are two young women on an important mission: they want to change Lebanese society by promoting gender [...]
CAIRO: Online gamers are vying to support their favorite Egyptian presidential candidate in a newly released video game “Who Does Egypt Want?” or “Masr Ayza Min?” Wixel Studios, a small, politically engaged tech design company, released the game in the beginning of September. The studio was inspired by the role that social media and technology [...]
A United Nations representative in Lebanon said the country should remain vigilant as continued change takes hold in the Arab world. UN representative Michael Williams, in Lebanon on Monday, spoke with Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea on the situation facing the Arab world currently. It was the end to his diplomatic visit to the country [...]
CAIRO: Lebanese sources have reported the arrest of an Egyptian citizen who has allegedly confessed to spying for Israel, Iran’s Press TV reported on Monday. The man, identified as Ibrahim S. was said to have been arrested carrying espionage equipment including a satellite device and an Israel SIM card. The man’s wife, a Lebanese national, [...]
The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) amd partner United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), will hold an experts’ meeting on technology transfer in energy and efficient lighting to combat climate change, in Beirut, from September 27-30. The meeting is aimed at promoting the role of institutions in finding appropriate solutions to counter the adverse [...]
Last week’s conference on cluster munitions in Beirut ended with delegates from over 100 countries agreeing on major provisions to the treaty that hopes to eventually outlaw their use, end production, stockpiling and the transfer of cluster munitions globally. Lebanon knows the use of cluster munitions all too well, with the month-long war with Israel [...]
Human rights activists Nour Merheb has been found dead at a chalet in the city of Jibil, in Lebanon on Friday. Merheb is believed to have committed suicide, leaving behind a video expalning his desire to take his own life, Lebanon’s national news agency reported Friday. Merheb was 25-years-old. Merheb, who was a human rights [...]
Current unrest in neighbouring Syria must not be allowed to affect the stability of Lebanon, a senior United Nations official warned today, calling for agreement on the issue between the country’s various political parties. “It will not be easy but great effort is needed,” UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams told reporters after conferring [...]
Despite gifting an early goal to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Lebanon stormed back with three goals in the third round of Asian qualification for the 2014 World Cup, leaving the gulf country likely unable to qualify. Lebanon, which was routed 6-0 by South Korea in its opening match in Group B, trailed 1-0 after [...]
CAIRO: A Lebanese blogger was denied entry into Egypt on Monday, the SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedoms said in a statement. According to the organization, he was barred from entering Egypt due to alleged links with jailed Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad, who is currently serving a three-year jail sentence for criticizing the [...]
Five years ago, Lebanese refugees who had fled the Israeli bombardment began returning home. Now, as violence perpetrated at the hands of Syria’s government continue to kill people daily, Syrian citizens are fleeing to Lebanon in a sign that the ongoing violence in Syria sees no signs of ending. According to reports, the hundreds, possibly [...]
The Security Council on Wednesday extended the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon until August 31, 2012. Established in 1978, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is tasked with ensuring that the area between the so-called Blue Line – separating Israel and Lebanon – and the Litani River is free [...]
BEIRUT: My name is Lama Zeinoun Tabet. I am a 36-year-old woman living in Beirut. In 2007, I worked as a trainer with the WEPASS project, developed by the United Nations Population Fund and the Lebanese National Commission for Women. The objective of the project was to empower rural women in Lebanon, and it was [...]
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon today discussed “critical issues” with Lebanese and Israeli commanders to prevent a recurrence of the exchange of gunfire earlier this month between the two armies across the line separating the countries. The exchange “once again underscored the extreme sensitivity of the Blue Line and the [...]
A judge in the United Nations-backed tribunal set up to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri on Wednesday evening ordered the unsealing of the full indictment that spells out prosecutors’ case against four men accused of carrying out the crime.In his ruling confirming the indictment, a pre-trial judge [...]
BEIRUT: Uprisings espousing principles of democracy, participation and human rights have spread across the Arab world. Arab women have been both on the frontlines and in the background of these struggles –in fact, they have been involved in every nationalist struggle where gender equality might have been a positive result. When women participate in a [...]
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