“We have no problems with the electricity file, but we will put it quietly as we will put up the apple file,” Information Minister Melhem al-Riyashi said ahead of a cabinet meeting at the Beit Din palace. Read More »
Prime Minister Saad Hariri Tuesday hailed the Lebanese Army’s quick gains against Daesh (ISIS) on the northeastern border region as the “biggest vote of confidence in the role of the government, the state and the Army.” He also said the key to halting the waste of public funds is by ... Read More »
Plight of ordinary people being overlooked amid focus on missile launches and rising tensions between Pyongyang and Washington The Guardian Justin McCurry 23 August, 2017 Sanctions and the worst drought for almost two decades threaten to cause severe hardship for millions of people in North Korea, while the country’s leadership ... Read More »
The president admitted: ‘My original instinct was to pull out’ but said he’d bowed to advice from officials, and claimed he’d take a much tougher line with Pakistan The Guardian Julian Borger 22 August, 2017 Donald Trump has announced he will prolong the US military intervention in Afghanistan, which he ... Read More »
A total eclipse that crossed the sky from Oregon to South Carolina brought out throngs of spectators, who exulted in seeing the midday sky go briefly dark. The New York Times By HENRY FOUNTAIN 21 August, 2017 CHARLESTON, S.C. — The United States basked in the glory of ... Read More »
Minister of Information Melhem Al-Riyashi received today, at his office in the ministry, the head of Rachaya Development Committee Lilian Malouli. After the meeting, Maalouli confirmed that she had presented with Minister Al-Riyashi “the subject of the Transfiguration on Mount Hermon, which is the focus of several development projects in ... Read More »
The United Nations Information Center in Beirut is organizing a training workshop for media professionals on “Sustainable Development Goals”, sponsored by Information Minister Melhem Riachi, on Thursday 7 and Friday, 8 September 2017, at the SmallVille Hotel, Badaro, Beirut. The workshop aims at informing journalists about these global goals and ... Read More »
President of the Republic Michel Aoun has signed a legal and a series of salaries and salaries and issued them according to the constitutional principles. Read More »
Ten U.S. sailors are missing after a collision between the USS John S. McCain and a tanker early Monday east of Singapore, the second accident involving a ship from the Navy’s 7th Fleet in the Pacific in two months. The Navy said five sailors were hurt in the collision between ... Read More »
The body of Ahmad al-Balli, a Lebanese national killed in last week’s terror attack in Burkina Faso, arrived in Beirut Sunday. Representatives of premier Saad Hariri received the body at Rafik Hariri International Airport, the state-run National News Agency reported. Mourning residents of Balli’s native village of Aazqi al-Dinnieh, in ... Read More »
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