Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Nuhad al-Mashnouk, reiterated in the northern capital, tripoli, that the Lebanese are the ones electing their new parliament. Minister Mashnouk’s words followed his meeting with Northern Governor, Ramzi Nohra, in presence of security officers in Tripoli’s Serail. the minister also confirmed the good securuty and ...

Today, Sunday 6th of May, the electoral ballots opened across Lebanon, and from 7 am. (04:00 GMT), people started queuing in front of the polling stations in order to cast their votes for a new first parliament since 9 years. The last elections were in 2009, for what was supposed ...

Cambridge Analytica, the firm embroiled in a controversy over its handling of Facebook Inc user data, and its British parent SCL Elections Ltd, are shutting down immediately after suffering a sharp drop in business, the company said on Wednesday. The company will begin bankruptcy proceedings, it said, after losing clients ...

Missiles could targets ships and aircraft, according to CNBC, and mark another step in the militarisation of the disputed islands China has installed cruise missiles and surface-to-air missile systems on three of its outposts in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, according to reports. The US news network ...

The Independent presents the first in an exclusive series from Socotra, an island paradise under threat from a neo-colonial takeover, the vagaries of Yemen’s war and the spectre of climate change Legend has it the otherworldly dragon’s-blood tree first grew on the spot where two brothers, Darsa and Samha, fought ...

Rich cities have improved, but pollution in poorer countries is still rising and kills 7 million people a year globally, WHO data reveals Pollution inequality between the world’s rich and poor is widening, according to the latest global data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) which shows that 7 million ...

With revenues of over $61bn, Apple beat its 2015 record in the report released Tuesday – but sales of its most valuable product are slowing Apple on Tuesday shook off worries that its $1,000 iPhone had failed to live up to the hype – but sales of the world’s most ...

A Russian fighter jet has reportedly intercepted a US surveillance plane in international airspace. The Russian Su-27 jet performed an “unprofessional” but not unsafe interception of a US Navy P-8 plane that was flying over the Baltic Sea, defence officials told CNN and Fox News. The jet reportedly came within ...

BEIRUT: The Acting U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Pernille Kardel Wednesday met with Lebanese Army representatives in Bekaa’s Ras Baalbeck and Arsal near the northern borders, in a follow-up visit after the Rome II conference in March. “Today I saw first-hand how the Lebanese Army’s presence … has succeeded in ...

French President Emmanuel Macron called on the United States on Wednesday not to abandon the Iran nuclear deal as Western envoys said Britain, France and Germany were nearing a package that seeks to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to save the pact. Trump has described the 2015 accord, under which ...