When results are not forthcoming, it is all too easy to look for someone to blame. This is true for education too. Today, there are 264 million children and youth not going to school. Learning, even for those enrolled, is often poor. There should be no blame game; we need ...

Sidon Mayor Mohammad Saudi Thursday assured local residents that the growing mountain of garbage in a nearby waste treatment plant would be removed within 10 weeks. “The fumes and the [piled] waste at the waste treatment plant in Sidon will disappear completely within a period not exceeding 10 weeks,” Saudi ...

President Michel Aoun will head to Kuwait on Nov. 5 for a two-day official visit in which he will hold talks with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah. Aoun will lead a ministerial delegation that includes Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, Telecommunications Minister Jamal Jarrah, Minister of State for Administrative Development ...

Prime Minister Saad Hariri is slated to speak Friday night during an economy-focused forum at BIEL. Hariri is set to deliver a speech during the official dinner held at 8 p.m. on the occasion of launching the Lebanese National Energy forum. The forum titled “The Drive of the Economy” will ...

The President of the Central Inspection, Judge Georges Auguste Attia, issued the following circular: “In order to ensure the proper functioning of all departments, public institutions, municipalities and their federations, we call upon the officials and heads of all units to comply with the official working hours specified in Article ...

But several hundred pages have been withheld until next year   Donald Trump has ordered the release of 2,800 files relating to the assassination of John F Kennedy, but agreed to withhold hundreds of documents the US intelligence community still deems sensitive more than 50 years after the incident. The documents were published ...

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told his visitors that his appeal to participate in the elections was directed to the general Lebanese expatriates, not to a class or sect. “The aim is based on two main points, urging the spread and alienation to participate in the elections and thus their entry ...

Finance Minister Ali Hasan Khalil Wednesday pledged to crack down on corruption in the ministry’s real estate department and vowed to deliver the 2018 draft budget to Parliament for approval. The minister made the remarks during the opening of the Finance Ministry’s new online real estate service, which was launched ...

Lebanon’s Central Bank has the foreign-currency reserves it needs to keep the pound stable against the U.S. dollar at its pegged rate for the foreseeable future, the Central Bank governor said . Riad Salameh also told Reuters in an interview that since June the Central Bank has been engaged in ...

  PLAGUE warnings have been issued for NINE countries surrounding Madagascar amid fears the disease could spread via sea trade and flight routes. The outbreak is considered a much bigger threat to the region than in previous years because it has taken on its pneumonic form – meaning it is ...