Posted By
Najib
Jun 04, 2023 02:29
Rami Adwan, Lebanon’s ambassador to France, is currently being investigated for rape & sexual assault following complaints by two former embassy employees. One of the employees, named Ava, claimed that she was raped in May 2020 in a private apartment belonging to Ambassador Adwan and that she “provided the police with WhatsApp messages on that evening and the following day, explicitly accusing him of rape", according to French investigative website Mediapart. French authorities have apparently…
Posted By
Najib
May 06, 2023 04:50
The new US Embassy campus in Awkar is starting to take shape, as seen from the latest photos shared on the embassy's FB page following a visit by US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy C. Shea. The massive new campus is being built over an area of 174,000 square meters and is expected to be completed in 2023 but I'm sure the pandemic has pushed its completion by a year or two. Size-wise, a 43-acre embassy…
Lebanon
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Lebanon
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Lebanon
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Information
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