BEIRUT – China and Lebanon on Tuesday signed an agreement to exempt travellers holding diplomatic, special, service passports and passports for public affairs from visa requirements, said the Chinese embassy in Lebanon. The agreement was [Read More]
BEIRUT – Lebanese experts have warned that the national economy could be further bruised by the growing trend of youth leaving the homeland who want to tide through the unprecedented financial crisis in the country. [Read More]
BEIRUT – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) on Thursday called for more support to help the organization assist vulnerable Palestinian refugee families amid the deteriorating financial situation in Lebanon. UNRWA Commissioner General [Read More]
BEIRUT – A senior World Bank official on Wednesday urged Lebanon to adopt an equitable banking solution to its financial crisis with the use of a bale-in strategy, as the country is short of public [Read More]
BEIRUT -The Arab region needs more than 570 billion U.S. dollars by 2030 to reinforce its adaptation to climate change, said a UN press release on Thursday. “The Arab region is highly vulnerable to climate [Read More]
On this day in 1991, Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon released Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland. Waite had remained in captivity for 1,763 days, the first four years of which were spent [Read More]
BEIRUT – Lebanon’s economic experts urged the election of a president and the formation of an efficient cabinet capable of forcing the implementation of structural reforms to reach a deal with the International Monetary Fund [Read More]
JERUSALEM – Israel has signed an agreement with the two energy companies licensed by Lebanon to drill in a gas field on the maritime border between the two countries to secure its economic rights to [Read More]
BEIRUT/ALGIERS – Lebanon and Algeria condemned on Sunday the deadly bomb attack in Turkey’s Istanbul that killed at least six people and injured 81. In a statement, Lebanon’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs offered its condolences [Read More]
BEIRUT – A national vaccination campaign against cholera was launched on Saturday in northern Lebanon, which was hit hard by the disease over the last several weeks, the health ministry announced in a statement. The [Read More]
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